shakespeare

Shakespeare, the Bard, who lived from 1564 to 1616, through the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, was, arguably, the greatest European dramatist. You can find his complete works on the web, follow his life, and debate what he looked like.

Bloggers may be writing about modern performances, about the great controversy over whether Shakespeare really was the writer of "his" plays, or debate what he looked like. And the Bard now has his own personal newspaper.

He probably didn't say: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely bloggers."

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “shakespeare”

• Double, Double Toil and Bubble

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 643
  In Shakespeare’s Macbeth the three witches represent darkness, chaos, and conflict… three miserable outcomes that take place after an act of political treason. Sound familiar? The market keeps on precariously headed higher, which is more than likely to make the suffering that much worse when the bubble pops . ...
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• More About Young Son’s Shakespeare Saturday

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Here’s the power of story for Young Son’s Shakespeare scenes coming up this Saturday:FALL WEAVERS FESTIVALSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1410AM – 4PMMILLSTONE PLANTATION / MILLSTONE INSTITUTE6500 OLD MILLSTONE PLANTATION ROAD, TALLAHASSEE, FL(off Thomasville Rd)$5.00 Admission for AdultsChildren under 12 FreeEVENTS for the ...
  7 hours ago

• Ian McKellen gives you an interactive Shakespeare class

  
  Daily Actor: Interviews, News, Columns, Video, Supplies — Authority: 126
  This may be one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while.Sir Ian McKellen give you an interactive Shakespeare class. Each click takes you to a different set of questions and answers.And stay on some of the screens for a bit. He just sits there waiting for you to click. I clicked right... If youd like to read the ...
  10 hours ago

• Douglas Campbell obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Scots Shakespearean actor with strong links to Canada and the US The actor Douglas Campbell, who has died aged 87, made a significant impact in theatre on both sides of the Atlantic. A working-class boy from Scotland who rose to play lead roles at the Old Vic, he later became a distinguished and revered actor in ...
  11 hours ago

• The rainbow duo in the SA krimi

  
  Crime Beat — Authority: 124
  A couple of weeks ago Margie Orford ran a straw poll asking why people read crime fiction. She got a lively exchange going but the one observation that struck home for me was from Louis Greenberg. He had some fascinating comments to make about the nature of our crime fiction seeing it as ‘idealistic and ...
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• Nikitas and The Long Division

  
  I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT — Authority: 98
  Over the weekend, the ball and chain and I went to see the Queens production of A Midsummer Nights Dream . It was a fantastic show. So Im thinking about Shakespeare. And thinking about as I grow older--now that Im married I feel older already--I find myself liking Shakespeare. That seems insipid having written ...
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• Sonnet 85 - My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXXV. My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still, While comments of your praise, richly compiled, Reserve their character with golden quill, And precious phrase by all the Muses filed. I think good thoughts, whilst others write good words, And like unlettered clerk still cry "Amen" To every hymn that able ...
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• Sonnet 84 - Who is it that says most, which can say more (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXXIV. Who is it that says most which can say more Than this rich praise— that you alone are you, In whose confine immurèd is the store Which should example where your equal grew? Lean penury within that pen doth dwell That to his subject lends not some small glory; But he that writes of you, if he can tell ...
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• Sonnet 83 - I never saw that you did painting need (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXXIII. I never saw that you did painting need, And therefore to your fair no painting set; I found, or thought I found, you did exceed That barren tender of a poets debt; And therefore have I slept in your report, That you yourself, being extant, well might show How far a modern quill doth come too short, ...
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• Sonnet 82 - I grant thou wert not married to my Muse (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXXII. I grant thou wert not married to my Muse, And therefore mayst without attaint oerlook The dedicated words which writers use Of their fair subject, blessing every book. Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue, Finding thy worth a limit past my praise, And therefore art enforced to seek anew Some fresher ...
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• Sonnet 78 - So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXVIII. So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse, And found such fair assistance in my verse As every alien pen hath got my use And under thee their poesy disperse. Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing And heavy ignorance aloft to fly, Have added feathers to the learnèds wing And given grace a double ...
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• Sonnet 77 - Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXVII. Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste; These vacant leaves thy minds imprint will bear, And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste. The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show Of mouthèd graves will give thee memory; Thou by thy dials shady stealth ...
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• Sonnet 76 - Why is my verse so barren of new pride (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXVI. Why is my verse so barren of new pride? So far from variation or quick change? Why with the time do I not glance aside To newfound methods and to compounds strange? Why write I still all one, ever the same, And keep invention in a noted weed, That every word doth almost tell my name, Showing their birth and ...
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• ASL Shakespeare

  
  A Writer's Desk — Authority: 137
  ASL Shakespeare. How cool is that? The ASL Shakespeare Project began in 1999 at Yale University. A team of four people, two deaf, and two hearing, came together to translate Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night into ASL. This core team was later joined by other Deaf performers. It took over a year to translate and ...
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• Sonnet 75 - So are you to my thoughts as food to life (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXV. So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground. And for the peace of you I hold such strife As twixt a miser and his wealth is found: Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure; Now counting best to be with you alone, Then ...
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• Sonnet 74 - But be contented when that fell arrest (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXIV. But be contented when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away; My life hath in this line some interest, Which for memorial still with thee shall stay. When thou reviewest this, thou dost review The very part was consecrate to thee. The earth can have but earth, which is his due; My spirit is ...
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• Sonnet 73 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXIII. 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, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take ...
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• Sonnet 72 - O, lest the world should task you to recite (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXII. O, lest the world should task you to recite What merit lived in me, that you should love, After my death, dear love, forget me quite; For you in me can nothing worthy prove-- Unless you would devise some virtuous lie To do more for me than mine own desert, And hang more praise upon deceasèd I Than niggard ...
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• Sonnet 71 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXXI. No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell. Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it, for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If ...
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• Sonnet 70 - That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect (by Shakespeare)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  LXX. That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slanders mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heavens sweetest air. So thou be good, slander doth but approve Thy worth the greater being wooed of time; For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love, And thou ...
  1 day ago

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