Monday, January 3, 2022

January 2022

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:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/9163782626/ref=tmm_hrd_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=1514378301&sr=8-1

 

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/

 

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!

 Posted this month:

  • 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:

 

 

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