November 2020

 

 

‘True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.’ Despite the dark and heavy clouds I have hope. So, stay safe, dear friends, and those of you who can vote in the US – please vote out the madman who currently occupies the White House.

 

And now, a promo for the book Shakespeare calling – the book. Indie authors like myself need support more than ever when we cannot arrange book signings and lectures. Therefore, sales are down drastically. 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

 

Shakespeare sightings:

• In Unbecoming by Jenny Downham Mary longs to be an actor and imagines herself on stage with her daughter in the role of Perdita but then remembers that Perdita is brought up by a shepherd and thinks maybe that’s not such a good idea after all. Later Mary tells her granddaughter Katie, ‘To thine own self be true.’ Later, as the rain pours down, Katie thinks of the mad king wandering in the storm after being betrayed by his daughters and seems to remember that Lear died in the end.
• Dagens Nyheter reports that the Swedish actor Josephine Bornebusch says that Shakespeare is one of her romantic roll models. ‘He must be on the list, it’s where everything started it, isn’t it?’
• In Fredrik Backman’s Folk med ångest (Anxious People) the actor who’s at the showing of the flat with a rabbit’s head on his head to drive away buyers…. Never mind, it’s a very complicated story but very good like all of Backman’s books… anyway he tells the interrogating cop that he has played in The Merchant from Venice and the cop corrects him, ‘Of.’ ‘Eh?’ ‘The Merchant of Venice.’

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

• Clash of the Titans – a brilliant cast including Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith and Claire Bloom in an absolutely dreadful film that we didn’t even finish. I think these three are too embarrassed for me to list their Shakespeare roles.
• Keeping Mum – Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas are in Richard III.
• Babel – Harriet Walter is in Hollow Crown. Michael Maloney is in Hamlet, Othello, In the Bleak Midwinter, Hamlet, Henry V
• The Favourite – Olivia Colman is in Much Ado about Nothing Re-Told
• Pulp Fiction - Tim Roth is in Guildenstern and Rosencrantz Are Dead.  
• Mrs Henderson Presents - Judi Dench – countless. I’ve seen her in The Hollow Crown, Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet, Henry V, Macbeth. Bob Hoskins – Othello.
• The Great Debaters – Denzel Washington is in Much Ado About Nothing.
• Practical Magic – Aiden Quinn is in Pacino’s documentary Looking for Richard

 Further since last time:

• Continued reading (to myself, alas, Hal is no longer up to listening to Shakespeare): The Merchant of Venice.
• Started wondering: Antonio or Portia? Which one will I write about?
• Received from the Globe Shop – the DVDs The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar. M of V and JC we saw at the Globe. It will be fun to see them again in this form.

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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/
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October 2020

 'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind.

Consider these words of Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt: “In ordinary times, when a public figure is caught in a lie or simply reveals blatant ignorance of the truth, his standing is diminished. But these are not ordinary times. If a dispassionate bystander were to point out all of Cade’s grotesque distortions, mistakes, and downright lies, the crowd’s anger would light on the skeptic and not on Cade.” (Cade is the leader of a rebellion against Henry VI, a vicious, violent man, a buffoon not unlike Trump.)
― Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

 

But don’t lose hope. It’s possible to oust Trump.

Consider further these words: “Shakespeare believed that . . . tyrants and their minions would ultimately fail, brought down by their own viciousness and by a popular spirit of humanity that could be suppressed but never completely extinguished. The best chance for the recovery of collective decency lay, he thought, in the political action of ordinary citizens. He never lost sight of . . . the hungry citizen who demanded economic justice. 'What is the city but the people?”
― Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

 

Stay safe, dear friends, and those of you who can vote in the US – please vote out the madman who currently occupies the White House.

 

And now, a promo for the book Shakespeare calling – the book. Indie authors like myself need support more than ever when we cannot arrange book signings and lectures. Therefore, sales are down drastically. 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

 

Shakespeare sightings:

• In The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne young Cyril’s adoptive father becomes so angry about being threatened with imprisonment and bankruptcy that he rages like King Lear in the storm.
• In the wonderful novel Rules for Visiting by Jessica Frances Kane the narrator May reveals on nearly the last page that her mother’s name was Miranda, ‘invented by Shakespeare, derived from the Latin mirandus, meaning “worthy of admiration wonderful”.’
• In the introduction to Aphra Behn’s The Rover her plays are (of course) compared to Shakespeare.

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

• Get on Up - Octavia Spencer is in Being John Malkovich which has a Richard III theme.
• Sleuth 1972 Mankiewicz directed Julius Caesar. Olivier, too many to count. We’ve seen him in King Lear, Richard III, Hamlet, Henry V, As You Like It.
• Sleuth 2007 - Branagh – director and/or actor - As You Like It, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet, In the Bleak Midwinter, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V.
• Gosford Park - Maggie Smith plays the mother of Ian McKellen’s Richard III. Michael Gambon is in The Hollow Crown. Kristin Scott Thomas is in IMcKs Richard III. Stephen Fry is in Twelfth Night. Helen Mirren is in The Tempest, The Prince of Jutland, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet. Eileen Atkins is in Titus Andronicus. Alan Bates is in Hamlet. Derek Jacobi is in Hamlet, Henry V, Hamlet, Richard II. Richard E Grant is in Twelfth Night, Withnail and I
• Django Unchained – Leonardo Di Caprio is in Baz Luhrman’s Romeo and Juliet.
• Inglourious Basterds: Michael Fassbender is in Macbeth.
• Fences: Denzel Washington is in Much Ado about Nothing.  

Further since last time:

• Started reading (to myself, alas, Hal is no longer up to listening to Shakespeare): The Merchant of Venice.
• Started watching with Hal: the comedy series Upstart Crow.
• Stopped watching after the first episode: the comedy series Upstart Crow. Just too shallow and inane.

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 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/

 

September 2020

 

‘…to yellow autumn turn'd…’ As we slide into early autumn we look back upon a summer of despair and hope in the name of Covid 19. Hal and I remain healthy, in isolation, but now there is hope that the pandemic, at least in Sweden, is waning. I hope it is where you live too. Stay safe, stay well.

 

As always, I start with a promo for the book Shakespeare calling – the book. Indie authors like myself need support more than ever when we cannot arrange book signings and lectures. Therefore, sales are down drastically. 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

 

Shakespeare sightings:

• In Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott, young Stella, suffering a chronic illness with little chance of survival, puts reading Shakespeare’s plays on her bucket list.
• In Believe Me by J P Delaney Claire is an aspiring actor who had a disastrous affair with a man who could quote Shakespeare’s love poems as though they were written for him, and she’s painfully envious of her friend who has a part in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
• In Furious Thing by Jenny Downham the main character Lexi auditions for the part of Miranda but when the director asks her to read Caliban, she’s very upset. She does and does it so brilliantly that he wants to cast her, but she refuses to play a monster. Poor Lexi, she has problems.
• In The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet Desiree stars in the school production of Romeo and Juliet but loses out on the part of Viola to the mayor’s daughter. Do schools really do Shakespeare as much as novels indicate? Or do I just read the kind of novels where they do?
• In the film Look Both Ways the disgruntled journalist Andy is forced to attend a production of Macbeth but he storms out in disgust during the ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’ monologue.
• In the novel The River Home by Hannah Richell Margot auditions for and get the part of Juliet in the school play, with disastrous consequences. 

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

• Love and Pain and the Whole Damned Thing: Maggie Smith plays the mother of Ian McKellen’s Richard III.
• Batman Begins: Christian Bale is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Prince of Jutland, Henry V. Gary Oldman is either Guildenstern or Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Tom Wilkinson is in Shakespeare in Love.
• The Full Monty: Tom Wilkinson is in Shakespeare in Love.
• The Dark Knight: Christian Bale is in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Prince of Jutland, Henry V. Gary Oldman is either Guildenstern or Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Ledger is in 10 Things I Hate about You, teen spin-off of The Taming of the Shrew.
• Get on Up: Octavia Spencer is in Being John Malkovich which has a Richard III theme.
• Enough Said: Catherine Keener is in Being John Malkovich which has a Richard III theme.

 

Further since last time:

• Ordered from the newly re-opened Globe Shop in London: two hoodies, five T-shirts and three DVDs.
• Received from the Globe Shop: two hoodies and five T-shirts but no DVDs.

 

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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/

 

August 2020

August 2020

‘A plague of sighing and grief’. Shakespeare describes it in Henry IV Part One. Fortunately, on a personal level, Hal and I are still only sighing in this the sixth month of Corona, but the pandemic has brought much grief to the world. Stay safe, friends, stay well.

As always, I start with a promo for the book Shakespeare calling – the book. Indie authors like myself need support more than ever when we cannot arrange book signings and lectures. Therefore, sales are down drastically. 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

Shakespeare sightings:

• In Six Wicked Reasons by Jo Spain, Ryan tells his sister Clio, ‘There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so,’ and their brother, the TV producer James, retorts, ‘You’re Shakespeare now, are you?’
• In the brilliant The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams found those monkeys that typed Hamlet, beating that old classic improbability factor.

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

• Muriel’s Wedding David Lapaine was in the production of The Merchant of Venice at the Globe, later released on DVD. We have seen both.
• Unlocked: If I remember correctly there was a production of Richard III going on in Being John Malkovich.
• Bright Young Things: This is so filled with Shakespeare connections it’s almost like watching a Shakespeare play. The ones I’ve seen in something Shakespeare are: Emily Mortimer, James McAvoy, David Tenant, Jim Broadbent, Simon Callow, Imelda Staunton, Harriet Walter.
• Stockholm: Ethan Hawke played excellently in Cymbeline and Hamlet.
• Event Horizon: Fishburne was an excellent Othello.
• Daredevil: Affleck played Ned Alleyn in Shakespeare in Love.
• The Children Act: Emma Thompson is classic in Much Ado About Nothing and Henry V. Tucci was very enjoyable in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Watkins was in The Hollow Crown which was directed by Eyre.
• The Mountain Between Us: Kate Winslet is Ophelia in Branagh’s Hamlet

Further since last time:

• Started reading: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s Set Me Free about a boarding school on a reservation in Oregon putting on a production of The Tempest. I read it twelve years ago but borrowed it from the library by mistake. It’s worth reading again.

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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/

July 2020

‘Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.’ Though Titus Andronicus is far from a comforting play, reading Shakespeare can help us get through this long-lasting sorrow of Corona. Stay distanced, friends, stay safe, stay well.

As always, I start with a promo for the book Shakespeare calling – the book. I do so hope you will help me. 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

Shakespeare sightings:

• In Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston, the narrator notes for ‘Monday April 23^rd It is Shakespeare’s birthday today, not that he’s in any condition to celebrate.’ Then he goes on for a couple of pages, considering in his humorous way the subject of Shakespeare.
• In The Poison Garden by Alex Marwood it’s the villains in the end-of-the-world sect who read and admire Shakespeare.
• In The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe Rosamond has quotations from Shakespeare on her bulletin board.
• The daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported that Stadsteatern will be doing a digital Hamlet and it also had a photo of Michelle Pfeiffer from A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Midsummer Eve (Midsummer is a big holiday in Sweden).
• In the novel The Ghost Factory by Jenny McCartney, which takes place in Belfast in the time of the Troubles, young Jacky tells us that, ‘My existence so far had been like some bloody Shakespearean play, littered with corpses.’ Later in the book, when his aunt mentions one of his young friends, he fears the lad will get involved with the violent Protestants and says, ‘What’s that shivery line from that old play? Something wicked this way comes.’
• In Nell Freuenberger’s novel Lost and Wanted
• the narrator astrophysicist Helen tells her friend Charlie that if she can read Shakespeare, she can read physics.
• Charlie suffers from lupus and lists the drugs she’s taking: ‘I tried Lyrica, and now I’m on Cymbalta – the drugs all sound like women in Shakespeare.’
• Charlie’s professor asks, ‘Why do we enjoy…Hamlet…? What do we get out of entering onto other people’s suffering in art, when we often avoid it in life?’

 Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month:

• Midsommar: Shakespeare connections: Jack Reynor was in Macbeth.
• Widows: Shakespeare connection: Elizabeth Debicki was in Macbeth.
• Paul: Shakespeare connection: John Carrol Lynch was in A Thousand Acres, a spin-off on King Lear.
• The Godfather: Shakespeare connection: Brando was brilliant was in Julius Caesar. Pacino was brilliant in Merchant of Venice and Looking for Richard.
• Underworld: Shakespeare connection: Beckinsale was in Much Ado about Nothing.
• The Godfather Part Two: Shakespeare connection: Pacino was brilliant in Merchant of Venice and Looking for Richard.
• Underworld Evolution: Shakespeare connection: Beckinsale was in Much Ado about Nothing. Jacobi was in Hamlet, Henry V, Hamlet, Richard II. Mackintosh was in Twelfth Night.

 Further since last time:

• Started reading aloud to Hal: Macbeth by Jo Nesbo.
• Stopped reading aloud to Hal: Macbeth by Jo Nesbo. No no no. I’m all for spinoffs of Shakespeare and some of this series have been brilliant but I just could not endure this book. Definitely DNF! Sorry.

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Read more about my alter ego’s books, in one of which Shakespeare appears live and in person, on:

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• https://themerlinchronicles.wordpress.com/ruby-and-shakespeare/spoiler-merlin-and-shakespeare/

June 2020

‘The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet’. Sonnet 94. Summer has come and with it the possibility to be outside despite the pandemic and quarantine. We go out, we stay distanced. I hope you are all well.

As always, I start with a promo for the book Shakespeare calling – the book. I do so hope you will help me. 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

Shakespeare sightings:

• Stephen King uses the famous ‘More things in heaven and earth’ quote and his character Holly responds: ‘I guess Shakespeare said it best. He said pretty much everything best, I think.’ Good old Holly. At the end one of the characters reflects that, ‘Now the hurly-burley’s done, now the battle’s lost and won.’ Good old Stephen King.

Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month:

• Johnny English Reborn. Shakespeare connection: Dominic West was in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Richard III. Tim McInnerny was also in Richard III.
• Book of Eli. Shakespeare connection: Denzel Washington is in Much Ado about Nothing. Gary Oldman is in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Michael Gambon is in The Hollow Crown.
• Born Romantic. Shakespeare connection: Adrian Lester is in As You Like It, Love’s Labour’s Lost and Hamlet. Jimi Mistry is in Hamlet. David Morrisey is in The Hollow Crown. Paddy Considine is in Macbeth.

Further since last time:

• Not too much Shakespeare.

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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. Oh yes, it has been windy and cold so far in May, but things will get better. As we hope it will with the Corona pandemic. Maybe there are faint signs already? I do hope you are all safe and well.

As always, I start with a promo for the book Shakespeare calling – the book. I do so hope you will help me. 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

Shakespeare sightings:

• In the film Galaxy Quest Alan Rickman’s character complains about his stupid role as an alien with the words, ‘I’ve played Shakespeare!’
• In the book by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Barroux, In the Mouth of the Wolf, the brother of the main character was a Shakespearan actor before being killed in WWI.
• In Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headly Jason says when Aza reports seeing a floating ship in the sky, ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,’ to which she replies, ‘Hamlet. Really? I’m not Horatio. This is med side effects…..’
• In Dagens Nyheter there is a column called ‘Dear Librarian’. One of the readers asked, ‘Must I learn Shakespeare’s insults to deal with people who won’t keep their distance?’ The Dear Librarian’s answer: ‘Yes.’

Films with a Shakespeare connection seen this month:

• Galaxy Quest. Shakespeare connection: Alan Rickman in Romeo and Juliet. Sam Rockwell in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Winter Guest. Phyllida Law in Much Ado about Nothing, The Life and Death of King John. Emma Thompson in Much Ado about Nothing, Henry V.
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Almost everybody in the film has done Shakespeare so I will just mention one: the brilliant David Tennant in one of the absolutely best Hamlets ever. Oh yes, we’re doing the HP films again for the 6^th or 7^th or 8^th time.

Further since last time:

• Not too much Shakespeare.

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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/

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https://rubyjandshakespearecalling.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-2020.html