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Advice for Helena
Didn't want this to get buried.  In a very old post about memorizing Shakespeare, an Anonymous reader asks,   I don't imagine you would have any advice for someone playing Helena in All's We ... read article

Scary Fairies
http://www.baltimoreshakespeare.org/Muse/ScaryFairies.htm I found this brief article interesting.  It's all about how, prior to Shakespeare, "fairies" were actually scary little beasts that peopl ... read article

AKFarrar
It's the strangest thing, but "akfarrar shakespeare" keeps showing up very highly in my referrer logs.  I'm wondering if our own Alan K. Farrar has a fanbase I never knew about? ;)  Or if he ... read article

Remind Me Never To Do This
http://www.aizawa.2y.net/sp/Tempest.htm Say it with me:  No matter how well, or how many different ways you translate Shakespeare, if you try to do it line by line, you are doing the source mater ... read article

Excuse Me While My Head Explodes, In The Good Way
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133942&command=displayContent&sourceNode=244910&contentPK=21111793&folderPk=103546&pNodeId=244911   Rufus Wainwright a ... read article

St. Crispin's Day
Since I missed the big speech yesterday at Rebel's Henry V, I went home and brought up a few versions on YouTube for the kids.  First is Olivier's: Then Brannagh:   For kicks (thanks ... read article