Monday, December 4, 2023

December 2023

 

December 2023

 

… The icy fang and churlish chiding of the winter’s wind… That’s the way it has been in Sweden for a week or so. Winter is here!

 

It’s also here for the Ukrainians, and for Gaza. A different kind of winter. One day, I hope to be able to quote something about peace, but again, sadly, I repeat what I have repeated for far too long:

‘O war! thou son of hell’ O Putin! O Netanyahu! Thou sons of hell! Our thoughts and support are still needed to the people of Ukraine, and the people of Russian who hate this war, and now the people of Gaza, and the people of Israel who hate the 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 me 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 and Gaza as long as the war lasts. Just let me know and I’ll send the money forthwith. You can also order directly from me. Just write me an email. Thank you.

Anyone from Ukraine – send me an email and I will send you the book free of charge. Anyone from Palestine – send me an email and I will send you the book free of charge. I am also sending contributions to Doctors without Borders and other organisations who are helping the Ukraine and Gaza.

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:

  • In the novel Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Marx was an avid Shakespearean actor while in college and that interest is mentioned several times throughout the novel. Not surprisingly, the title is from Macbeth and the reason becomes clear towards the end.

 

 

Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/

 

  • What’s Love Got to Do with It? – Lawrence Fishburne is in Othello.
  • Where the Crawdads Sing - David Strathairn is in The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
  • Waking the Dead - Janet McTeer is in As You Like It
  • Grand Avenue - Daniel Sackheim directed the Hamlet spin-off The Glass House.
  • Storm - Jonas Karlsson was in The Tempest on stage at Dramaten in Stockholm
  • The Caveman’s Valentine - Colm Feore is in Slings and Arrows, Titus.
  • 30 Days of Night - Josh Hartnett is in O.
  • Hairspray - Michelle Pfeiffer is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Allison Janney is in 10 Things I Hate about You.
  • The Impostor - Mekhi Phifer is in O.

 

 

Further since last time:

  • More meetings: with my Shakespeare theatre group doing A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
  • Seen at Stadsteatern in Stockholm: Absolute Shakespeare.
  • Seen at Stadsteatern in Stockholm: A Temporary Ensemble Put on King Lear)

 

 

Posted this month:

 

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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A Temporary Ensemble Puts on King Lear

 

En tillfällig ensemble sätter upp Kung Lear (A Temporary Ensemble Puts on King Lear)

Lilla scen, Stadsteatern, Stockholm

Seen with friends MR and AR 24 November 2023


A hapless director, Andreas (Meyer) is a heart-warming bumbler who agrees with everybody, whose wife is the star of another production, and whose kids he has to fetch from school, while trying to direct King Lear with three actors:

Ulf (Rabaeus) – a pro and he lets everyone know it. Essentially Rabaeus plays himself, he’s known as an arrogant, ego-tripping know-it-all and it reveals a healthy dose of humour and sardonic self-awareness to play this part.

Berit (Benson) – a has-been still living in her glorious past as an actor in the radical theatre of the 70s (which, in fact, Mia Benson was, but she’s far from a has-been). Here, she reads her lines like a robot and Ulf is quick to tell her the right way to do it.

Larissa (Lazcano, who also wrote and directed the play) – a young radical feminist ghetto poet who hates the whole idea of King Lear but gave up several big roles at the Royal Dramatic Theatre to be in this production. And she has a secret…

Then they get directives from the bosses of Stadsteatern – they are to shorten the play, accept commercial sponsors and see to it that they get huge audiences.

It’s laugh-out-loud funny, it’s satirical, it pokes wicked fun at the cold commercialised cultural climate in todays’ right-wing Sweden. The cast is brilliant and the Melody Festival ending is wonderfully glittery and foot-stomping.

There isn’t a whole lot of Lear, but, oh, it’s a lovely spin-off.

 


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Absolute Shakespeare

ABSOLUTE SHAKESPEARE

By and with: Malin Sternbrink & Niklas Atterhall

Soppteatern, Kulturhuset, Stockholm

Seen with friend LJ (thank you!) 11 November, 2023

 

A melancholy man in a black overcoat, alone on the stage playing 16th century music on a lute. A woman in red, high-heeled shoes, big 80's hair, enters the stage, singing 'What a Feeling.'

Man: 'To be or not to be...' Woman: 'I want to dance with somebody...'

Shakespeare meets the 1980s.

It starts light-heartedly with new love, quotes from Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream interwoven with 'Let's Dance,' 'A Lady in Red,' 'Kiss.' Then comes jealousy. 'Every breath you take.' 'The Green-Eyed Monster'. Love is not enough. Sadness, betrayal, anguish.

 

Many of my favorite quotes from Shakespeare are included, both in English and Swedish. 'I have of late and wherefore I know not lost all my mirth.' 'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...', 'there was a star danced, under that was I born'. Jealousy and infidelity? Sternbrink and Atterhall use one of Shakespeare's best scenes: Otello, Emilia explains to Desdemona why it is just as right for women to be unfaithful as men.

 

Also ingenious is that it was Ophelia who quoted 'I have of late...' not Hamlet, and 'Take me to a nunnery,' instead of Hamlet's 'Get thee to a nunnery.' Hamlet says, 'She stared at me...' instead of Ophelia's, 'He stared at me.'

 

Sternbrink and Atterhall have put on a brilliant, funny, emotional and beautiful interpretation of Shakespeare that shows, as many have done, that Shakespeare is as relevant as ever.

 

If you live in Stockholm, see it.

Absolute Shakespeare (kulturhusetstadsteatern.se)

 

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Monday, November 6, 2023

November 2023

… The night has been unruly… At long last I have returned to my beloved London. Many memories of my visits with Hal, a feeling of coming home as I walked around Southwark and visited the Globe. Unruly night? Indeed, though the weather was quite pleasant despite the occasional showers, it was windy and on the day our coach left London the storm was so severe that the ferries between Dover and Calais were cancelled and we were forced to find a hotel in Folkestone. Our lovely tattooed and pierced guide Lazze made all the arrangements and we just sat back and enjoyed an extra day in England. Home again now, in a grey and windy Stockholm. 

 

One day, I hope to be able to quote something about peace, but again, sadly, I repeat what I have repeated for far too long:

‘O war! thou son of hell’ O Putin! O Netanyahu! Thou sons of hell! Our thoughts and support are still needed to the people of Ukraine, and the people of Russian who hate this war, and now the people of Gaza, and the people of Israel who hate the 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 me 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 and Gaza as long as the war lasts. Just let me know and I’ll send the money forthwith. You can also order directly from me. Just write me an email. Thank you.

Anyone from Ukraine – send me an email and I will send you the book free of charge. Anyone from Palestine – send me an email and I will send you the book free of charge.

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:

  • In the novel Half-Moon Street by Anne Perry, much of the story revolves around a production of Hamlet.
  • In Dagens Nyheter we are given a review of the latest production of Hamlet with Sylvana Imam in the title role. After a shaky start it pulls together and the reviewer concludes that Imam becomes Hamlet. I think I might want to see this.  

Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/ 

  • Love Field - Michelle Pfeiffer is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
  • All the King’s Men - Kate Winslet is in Hamlet. Anthony Hopkins is in Titus.
  • Any Day Now - Alan Cumming is in The Tempest, Titus.
  • The Haunting - Claire Bloom is in The Life and Death of King John, Cymbeline, Hamlet. Richard Johnson is in Cymbeline, Antony and Cleopatra.
  • Old - Rufus Sewell is in The Taming of the Shrew Re-Told, Hamlet. Nikki Amuka-Bird is in Coriolanus.
  • Salt - Liev Schreiber is in Hamlet. Chiwetel Eijiofor is in Twelfth Night. 

Further since last time:

  • First meeting: with my Shakespeare theatre group. The cast is chosen.
  • Didn’t see: Kenneth Branaugh’s King Lear although my London hotel was very close to the theatre and I walked by it every day. Tickets? Impossible to get.
  • Walked to: the Globe. Oh to be back at the Globe after 5 years! Sadly, the season’s last performance was on the day I arrived in London, but it was lovely to walk around the area again. Many memories of being there with Hal.
  • Bought at the Globe Shop: DVD of the Hamlet we saw there last time (2018).  The book Shakespeare and Race, edited by Ayanna Thompson. Fridge magnet ‘Though she be but little, she is fierce. Two pens and a pencil.
  • Bought at Foyles: Shakespeare by Judi Dench.
  • Booked: King Lear with friends here in Stockholm at the end of November.                     

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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Monday, October 2, 2023

October 2023

 


 

… The teeming Autumn big with full increase… 

One day, I hope to be able to quote something about peace, but again, sadly, I repeat what I have repeated for far too long:

‘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 me 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. You can also order directly from me. Just write me an email. Thank you.

Anyone from Ukraine – send me an email and I will send you the book free of charge.

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:

  • In the novel How to Stop Time by Matt Haig, the main character was born in 1599 and grows old very, very slowly. He’s over four hundred in the present time. Of course he meets Shakespeare (as my alter ego Rhuddem Gwelin’s Merlin does in An Isle Full of Noises, The Merlin Chronicles Volume 3).
  • In an article in Dagens Nyheter Ian McKellen’s Richard III is mentioned.
  • Also in Dagens Nyheter there is a review of a production in Copenhagen of Richard II saying not much more of interest than the fact that the play is not performed as often as Richard III
  • David Baddiel, in his book The God Desire, writes that, ‘At a time when belief was not optional, Shakespeare wrote Measure for Measure…”Ay, but to die, and go we know not where…”…[he] may, in this speech, be referencing …Lucretius, whose work De rerum natura was rediscovered in Italy in the 15th century….’ Followers of this blog may be aware that De rerum natura is very important in my alter ego Rhuddem Gwelin’s series of novels The Merlin Chronicles. Oh the webs we spin!
  • Our dear Dumbledore, Michael Gambon, is dead. In the beginning of his career he was in productions of Othello, Hamlet and Macbeth. According to Dagens Nyheter.
  • Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut Jr mentions Shakespeare several times throughout the book in toss-off comments.

 

Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/

 

  • Summerland - Penelope Wilton is in King Lear and Othello.
  • The King of Devil’s Island - Stellan Skarsgård is in Hamlet.
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Paul Ruud is in Romeo and Julia.
  • The Fourth Kind - Milla Jovovich is in Cymbeline.
  • Playing for Time - Vanessa Redgrave is in Coriolanus. Max Wright is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
  • Good Time - Jennifer Jason Leigh is in A Thousand Acres
  • Black Swan - Winona Ryder is in Looking for Richard
  • Homicide the Movie - Reed Diamond is in Much Ado about Nothing.
  • The Machinist - Christian Bale is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Prince of Jutland, Henry V. Jennifer Jason Leigh is in A Thousand Acres.

 

Further since last time:

  • My dear friend LJ, a music therapist, and I have started working on a Shakespeare production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, much abridged, for the residents of our community’s homes for the elderly.

                     

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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Sunday, September 3, 2023

September 2023

 … full of sound and fury... That will be my next tattoo. What do you think?

Ahem, That’s already in place. I’ve also added Shakespeare calling – the book and Though she be but little she is fierce. And in October I will add Out, out, brief candle!

 

And now, sadly, I repeat what I have repeated for far too long:

‘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 me 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. You can also order directly from me. Just write me an email. Thank you.

Anyone from Ukraine – send me an email and I will send you the book free of charge.

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:

  • In Laurie Halse Anderson’s The Impossible Knife of Memory the high school students are of course discussing Romeo and Juliet one of who describe it as ‘Slutty fourteen-year-olds and gang violence…everybody dies.’ Which pretty well sums it up. Lear and Shakespeare on stage are also mentioned. Do American high school students really study Shakespeare as much as it seems in YA novels?
  • In Barbara Kingsolver’s latest (and brilliant) novel, Demon Copperhead, he found Mr Dick reading a book which ‘…had a name on it I’d heard of, Shakespeare. Dead, evidently.’
  • In The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff the ‘band of brothers’ quote is used as a practice code for radio transmitters on their way to occupied France.
  • In the film Spontaneous Combustion the high school teacher is in a teachers’ theatre group doing Shakespeare.
  • In the novel The Measure by Nikki Erlick, the suicide of a young couple brings comparisons to Romeo and Julie


Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/

 

  • 25th Hour - Brian Cox is in Coriolanus, Prince of Jutland and King Lear.
  • How to Kill Your Neighbour’s Dog – Branagh
  • Iron Man - Robert Downey Jr is in Coriolanus, Richard III. Gwyneth Paltrow is in Shakespeare in Love. Clark Gregg is in Much Ado about Nothing.
  • Proof - Gwyneth Paltrow is in Shakespeare in Love and John Madden directed it. Anthony Hopkins is in Titus and Othello.
  • Aberdeen - Stellan Skarsgård is in Hamlet.
  • Lonesome Jim - Casey Affleck is in Hamlet. Kevin Corrigan is in Cymbeline.
  • Birdwatchers - Chiara Caselli is in My Own Private Idaho.
  • The Terminal - Stanley Tucci is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
  • Waterland - Jeremy Irons is in The Hollow Crown, The Merchant of Venice. Sínead Cusack is in Twelfth Night. Ethan Hawke is in Cymbeline and Hamlet. David Morrissey is in The Hollow Crown. John Heard is in O. Pete Postlethwaite is in Romeo & Julia and Hamlet.
  • Iron Man 3 - Robert Downey Jr is in Coriolanus, Richard III. Gwyneth Paltrow is in Shakespeare in Love. Ben Kingsley is in Twelfth Night.
  • The Fifth Estate - Shakespeare connections: Benedict Cumberbatch is in Richard III. David Thewlis is in Macbeth.
  • Judas Kiss - Emma Thompson is in Henry V and Much Ado about Nothing. Alan Rickman is in Romeo and Juliet.
  • The United States of Leland - Michelle Williams is in A Thousand Acres.
  • State of Play - Rachel McAdams is in Slings and Arrows. Ben Affleck is in Shakespeare in Love. Helen Mirren is in The Tempest, Prince of Jutland, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Daybreakers - Ethan Hawkes is in Cymbeline, Hamlet

 

Further since last time:

  • Now tattooed on my arms: … full of sound and fury... Shakespeare calling – the book and Though she be but little she is fierce. And in October I will add Out, out, brief candle!
  • Saw with friends A&U – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

                     

Posted this month:

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/

 

 

 

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Review A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream En midsommarnatts dröm

Scenkonst Sörmland, Teaterladan, Nynäs slott

Writer: Lucas Svensson

Director: Maria Weisby

Cast: Lars Bethke, Ingela Schale Berghagen, Mats Jäderlund, Ines Cherif, Anders Jacob, Thérèse Svensson, Lucas Carlsson, Dan Anderson (voice only, as Puck)

Seen with friends AB and UJ 6 August 2023 

 

To begin with I would like to say that I like remakes of Shakespeare’s plays. I usually like the actual productions but even when I don’t, I like the idea of adapting the plays to other times and situations.

 

This production takes place in the late 1930s. Hitler and war lurk in the background. Bottom and Helena are communists and the play is about class struggle. I understand the troupe’s  need to give the play relevance to our time but sadly, it doesn’t completely work. It becomes two plays with the war and class struggle, although relevant and important, a bit weaker than the Shakespeare bit. I hope they do a separate play about it and fix it up to be stronger.

 

There are good Swedish transations of Shakespeare but this isn’t one of them. I’m not even sure how much Shakespeare is actually used but the two best lines in the play, among the best lines in all of Shakespeare, ’What fools these mortals be,’ and ’though she be but little she is fierce,’ are not used at all. Bad decision.

 

Still, the Shakespeare bits are best. Helena (Svensson) and Bottom (Jäderlund) are good and Bethke is a fine Oberon. It works well not to have Puck appear on stage, only his voice, but I miss his last lines at the end. The scenography is good.

 

It’s worth seeing for Stockholmers who have a car and I applaud Scenkonst Sörmland’s effort.

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Thursday, August 3, 2023

August 2023

  … full of sound and fury... That will be my next tattoo. What do you think?

 

I repeat what I have repeated for far too long:

‘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 me 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. You can also order directly from me. Just write me an email. Thank you.

Anyone from Ukraine – send me an email and I will send you the book free of charge.

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:

  • In the film Beauty and the Beast Belle and the Beast discuss Shakespeare and he scorns her for saying that Romeo and Juliet is her favourite.
  • In Barbara Kingsolver’s latest (and brilliant) novel, Demon Copperhead, he found Mr Dick reading a book which ‘…had a name on it I’d heard of, Shakespeare. Dead, evidently.’



Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/

 

 

Further since last time:

  • Now tattooed on my arms: …tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow……signifying nothing…
  • Reactions to the tattoo:
    • ‘Wha’???’
    • ‘Cool!’
    • L
    • An Italian hiker in the Dolomites grinned and gave me a thumbs up.
    • Our Italian guide in the Dolomites took photos because he might want to do the same.                     

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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