Happy New Year, dear Shakespeare friends! I hope 2022 has started out well for you and that you are of good cheer. As for me, ‘I am fresh of spirit and resolved to meet all perils very constantly’. Well, that sounded noble, didn’t it? Nevertheless, I have hopes for the coming year. Fingers crossed.
We’ll
start the new year with this familiar promo for the book Shakespeare
calling – the book. Indie authors like myself always need support, even now when book
signings and lectures can again be scheduled. Only on the Internet can I reach
people like you, who are interested in Shakespeare would like to support the
Shakespeare Calling project. I do so hope you will help me by ordering the
book online. Thank you.
The book is available
for those of you in Great Britain and parts of Europe on this site:
Also
available on http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Calling-book-Ruby-Jand/dp/9163782626/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436073737&sr=1-1&keywords=Ruby+Jand+shakespeare+calling
Or
in Sweden
http://www.bokus.com/bok/9789163782626/shakespeare-calling-the-book/
or
Adlibris. Or contact the publisher info@vulkan.se
I would be thrilled to get an email from you if you bought
the book. rubyjandshakespearecalling@gmail.com
Shakespeare sightings:
- Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah
mentions Shakespeare several times.
- A friend asks Salim to quote something from Shakespeare to prove he was studying literature at the university.
- Salim auditions for a part in The Winter’s Tale.
- Salim’s father bought a Complete Works of Shakespeare but found the plays too difficult to read.
- Salim explains the story in Measure for Measure to his father, showing the parallels to his mother’s experience.
- In Doctor Who Martha tells showgirl Tallulah that she has done a little Shakespeare. To which Tallulah replies, ‘How boring is that?’
Films with a
Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/
- The Assassination
of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Casey Affleck and Sam Shepard are
in Hamlet. Sam Rockwell is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
- Light of My Life - Casey Affleck is
in Hamlet.
Elizabeth Moss is in A Thousand Acres, a
spin-off of King Lear.
- Regeneration - We saw Jonathan Pryce in The Merchant
of Venice at the Globe in London. David Hayman is in Macbeth and
The Hollow Crown.
- Dark City - Rufus Sewell is in The Taming of the Shrew Re-Told and Hamlet.
- Notting Hill - James Dreyfuss and Tim McInnerney are in Richard III. John Shrapnel is in King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens.
- Last Christmas - Emma Thompson is in Much Ado about Nothing and Henry V.
- Wild Rose - Jessie Buckley is in The Tempest (which we saw
on stage at the Globe in London). Julie Walters and Sophie Okonedo are in
The Hollow Crown.
Further since last
time:
- Still reading: Women of Will by Tina Packer. It’s bringing new understanding for such difficult plays as Troilus and Cressida and Antony and Cleopatra. I might even like these plays the next time I read them!
- This report
Shakespeare
Calling – the book is promoted by http://shakespearesallskapet.se/
Read more about my alter ego’s books, in one of which
Shakespeare appears live and in person, on:
- https://themerlinchronicles.wordpress.com/ruby-and-shakespeare/shakespeare-calling-the-book/
- https://themerlinchronicles.wordpress.com/ruby-and-shakespeare/spoiler-merlin-and-shakespeare/
