‘Joy, gentle friends! Joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts.’ 2023 has begun. Let us hope and work for a better world this coming year. Let us now be ‘noble of reason’. Let us ‘be just, and fear not.’ ‘True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings,’ so let us hope for peace, and equality, and a viable environment. Happy New Year, friends.
In the meantime, 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 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. 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:
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 Clueless Cher is writing on
a card ‘The merry buds of May’ and tells her friend it’s a famous quote from Cliff Notes. Later when Josh’s
girlfriend declares, ‘”To thine own self be true”. Hamlet said that’, Cher
responds: ‘Hamlet didn’t say that. I remember my Mel Gibson. It was that
Polonius guy.’
- In the novel The History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund Linda’s mother tells her, ‘I put on a Macbeth with twenty in the cast. It was a funny version.’
- In Stephen King’s Fairy Tale we are reminded that Jack, of beanstalk fame, whose giant says ‘Fee, fie, fo fum’ etc stole the line from King Lear.
- In the film Nomadland Frances McDormand’s character Fern is told by an old student that she remembers the ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’ quote. Later in the film Fern tells a young man that she had used a poem in her wedding vows then quotes the entire Sonnet 18 to him.
- In Twin Peaks Audrey’s creepy dad when visiting a bordello quotes Sonnet 18 to the Madam. (You notice how differently Shakespeare quotes are used).
Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month - see reviews on https://rubyjandsfilmblog.blogspot.com/
- Ant-Man - Paul Ruud is in Baz Luhrman’s Romeo & Juliet.
- Snowden - Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in 10 Things I Hate About You. Tom Wilkinson is in Shakespeare in Love and Prince of Jutland.
- Clueless - Alicia
Silverstone is in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Paul
Ruud is in Romeo & Juliet.
- Constantine - Keanu
Reeves is in Much Ado about Nothing and My Own Private Idaho. Djimon Hounsou is in The Tempest.
- The High Note - Dakota Johnson and Bill Pullman are in Cymbeline.
- Little Women - Chris Cooper is in The
Tempest.
- Ned Kelly - Heath Ledger is in 10 Things I
Hate about You
- Take Shelter - Jessica Chastain is in Coriolanus.
- Across the Universe - Julie Taymor directed The Tempest and Titus.
- Nomadland - David Strathairn is in The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Further since last time:
- not much
Posted this month:
- This report
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/
