News: 100 Classic Book Collection set for Boxing Day
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Includes works by Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Jules Verne and Jane Austen.
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Gravest Threat to Obamaland: Disillusionment
El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Pajamas Media…Like is this true or WHAT! Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. — William Shakespeare If Billy Shakespeare were still with us, I’m quite certain he would do us the favor of coining some nifty expressions to describe Obamaland and its inhabitants. I’ve no [...]
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Mr. and Mrs. WS Go for a Walk
Running After My Hat (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Yesterday would have been William Shakespeare’s and Anne Hathaway’s 426th anniversary. Whew. Per yesterday’s Today in Literature newsletter, which I’ve just got around to reading, we have this excerpt from Chapter 3 of Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works, “Richard Nye’s fictional send-up of their marriage”: When Mr William Shakespeare asked me that idle question as to whether [...]
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Today's Poem
The Judge Report (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Ah, that Shakespeare! What a romantic! Always singing the praises of his love, the sweet happiness, the joy, the rapture of love in bloom! Stumbleupon brought me this amusing exception: William Shakespeare - Sonnet #147 My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the...
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Shakespeare Woos, Weds, Repents (1582)
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
A ll's well that ends well today when a licence was issued by the bishop of Worcester to 18-year-old William Shakespeare allowing him to marry Anne Hathaway without the customary posting of the banns. The next day, two friends of the Hathaway family appeared before the bishop or his clerk, posting a bond of £40 guaranteeing that the marriage will occur. Why the haste and the bond? It seems that young...
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Be afraid. Be very afraid…
(Roughly) Daily (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
From our friends at Den of Geek, “75 comics being made into films“… including the ever-enchanting Red Sonia: As we despair of ever saving our allowances, we might recall that it was on this date in 1582 that a marriage license was issued to 18-year-old William Shakespeare and three-months pregnant Anne Hathaway. It’s likely that the [...]
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That Time of Year...
Yanksfan vs Soxfan (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Poetic words from and about the early winter season: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold (Sonnet 73) That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold -William Shakespeare-excerpt The Unknowable...
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Shakespeare suffers slings and arrows of Sats fortune
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
William Shakespeare is losing favour in schools, with half of teachers cancelling courses with the Royal Shakespeare Company since Sats for 14-year-olds in English and maths were scrapped. The RSC said up to 50% of teachers have dropped out of the training courses it runs to aid the teaching of Shakespeare to teenagers since ministers abolished the national curriculum tests, which included a section...
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Screen Gems Gives Will Gluck an Easy A
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Screen Gems has announced plans to turn William Shakespeare's "The Scarlet Letter" into a "modern-day, high school-set teen comedy" titled "Easy A." Will Gluck is attached to direct.
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Quiet Desperation in Rhode Island
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
This week's episode of Brotherhood on Showtime may have acknowledged William Shakespeare in its title (" The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth "); but the " poetic wisdom " of the story line came straight from Henry David Thoreau: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Indeed, had the series been set in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, rather than Providence, Rhode Island, a...
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bible or bard
ysmarko (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
ok, i have to admit, lines from the king james bible and lines from william shakespeare sound so much alike! on this little “ bible or bard ” quiz from mental floss, i found myself taking educated guesses most of the time, and only scored 70%. oof. maybe if it were tniv? be honest, what percentage did you get? (ht to neatorama)
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Finding His Fairies Distribution: "Were The World Mine" Director Tom Gustafson
IndieWire (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
by Peter Knegt (November 21, 2008) EDITOR'S NOTE: This article originally ran during indieWIRE's coverage of Outfest 2008 Four years ago, Tom Gustafson 's short film " Fairies " was making a stop on its long run on the festival circuit. A 20-minute musical fantasy inspired by William Shakespeare 's " A Midsummer Night's Dream ," "Fairies" ended up screening at nearly 100 festivals, including Tribeca...
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Book Notes - John Reed ("All the World's a Grave")
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. In All the World's a Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare, John Reed takes the...
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Today’s haul of books.
Hoover's Business Insight Zone (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Share my glee, friends: today I have four new books on my desk, all of which I’m eager to read. Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life Warren Buffett belongs in the same category as William Shakespeare: human and imperfect like all of us . . . but also demonstrably superior to everyone [...]
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Uneasy lies the head
Paris Parfait (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Student designs, Fibers Department exhibition, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Ga., May 2008. The top image is reminiscent of the Art Nouveau period. "...Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2,...
