These are flowers of Middle summer…
Here we are in the middle of summer but sadly, flowers are
scarce in many part of Ukraine. I repeat what I wrote last time, and the time
before:
‘O war! thou son of
hell’ O Putin! Thou son of hell! Our thoughts and support are still needed
to the people of Ukraine, and the people of Russian who hate this war. Protest
in any way you can! And don’t give up hope. ‘True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.’
In
this time of turmoil and hope I give you 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. Any
sales I make of this book will go directly to Doctors without Borders for their
work in Ukraine as long as the war lasts. Just let me know and I’ll send the
money forthwith. 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:
- In her book How to Be a Heroine, Samantha Ellis mentions
- Lavinia, who in Titus Andronicus communicates by writing in the sand with a stick, though her tongue and hands have been cut off,
- Kate, in The Taming of the Shrew, raging across the stage, like the author herself raged against her parents at sixteen,
- Kate, in ditto, choosing to be shrewish in a society that buys and sells women
- Cleopatra, who wants to sleep away the time that Antony is gone
- Dagens Nyheter tells us that Angela
Merkel has been reading Shakespeare, especially Macbeth.
- Shakespeare’s tragedies as being for the young, his comedies as being for the mature,
- Shakespeare and Brook as being the subjects of constant discussion at Cambridge, where she studies theatre.
Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/
- All That Jazz – Jessica
Lange is in Titus, A Thousand Acres (Lear). Max Wright is in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream.
- Get Shorty - Delroy Lindo is in Cymbeline
- Hope and Glory - David Hayman is in
Macbeth and The Hollow Crown.
- Impromptu - Emma Thompson is in Much Ado about Nothing and Henry V
- Guardians of the
Galaxy 2 - Elizabeth
Debicki is in Macbeth.
- Clockers - Delroy Lindo is in Cymbeline. Mekhi Pfeifer is in O.
- What About Bob? - Bill Murray is in Hamlet. Richard Dreyfuss is in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Good-bye Girl, spin-offs of Hamlet and Richard III
- Hacksaw Ridge - Sam Worthington is in Macbeth
- Perrier’s Bounty - Jim Broadbent is in Richard III
- The Handmaiden’s Tale - Aiden Quinn is in Looking for Richard
- Star Trek First Contact - Patrick Stewart is in The Hollow Crown Richard II, Hamlet x 2.
- The Lookout - Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in Ten
Things I Hate about You, a spin-off of The Taming of the Shrew
Further since last
time:
· We in the Shakespeare world are saddened by the death
of Peter Brook who has died at the age of 97. I have read his book The
Quality of Mercy and seen his filmed productions of Hamlet (with
Adrian Lester – brilliant!) and King Lear. He will be sadly missed.
· I see in the statistics for the June that the blog has been visited 100 times by Russian visitors. I wonder what they think of my contributing the royalties of the sale of the book to Doctors without Borders for Ukraine. I would love to get some comments from them. And perhaps encourage them to protest the war?
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:
- https://themerlinchronicles.wordpress.com/ruby-and-shakespeare/shakespeare-calling-the-book/
- https://themerlinchronicles.wordpress.com/ruby-and-shakespeare/spoiler-merlin-and-shakespeare/
