Awww, man, my Hamlet plans got cancelled! Big deal, a couple of trees come down because of the wind, that’s just a little Tempest :).

Actually Kerry and I made it all the way into Boston hoping that the storm would pass over and leave plenty of time for the show. But come 6pm when they had to make the call it was still fit for neither man nor beast and the show was cancelled.

Bummer that this is the last weekend. I’m going to try swinging in on Sunday afternoon for the very last show if I can make it.

Well my quest for a Shakespeare forum to hang out on has met with success, I’m now all signed up and contributing to Shakespeare High. Even better they welcomed me warmly and encouraged me to plug the blog (which I quickly did :)) and invite people to check it out.

So, in case anybody actually took me up on that, welcome! Looking forward to having some good bard conversation. Hopefully I can actually bring some original material to the mix as well and not just echo what’s already been said a few million times over the past 400 years.

UPDATE: If you’re still landing here, be aware that this is 2005 page! If you’re looking for the 2008 season you need to go over here.

Just a quick note to let people know that Hamlet is being performed on Boston Common through this weekend, if you’re in the area. My wife and I, and a group of friends from work will be going Friday night. Anybody already seen it? Any good?

Not much to say about this story (of the same title), except “How come I never find myself in situations like this?” The ending is particularly nice, since I’m sure that anybody that’s a Shakespeare fan like myself will agree with what the cabbie has to say.

No, not novelizations of Shakespeare. Novels, original works, starting with Shakespeare as a foundation. It’s provided fodder for Grace C. Tiffany to do four novels. Her first, “My Father Had a Daughter”, is about Shakespeare’s daughter. Her second, “Will”, is about the man himself and his relationship to his wife. The latest two are “The Turquoise Ring” (Merchant of Venice) and “Ariel” (The Tempest).

It’s a neat idea, I will have to keep an eye out next time I need reading material. In general I’m more of a contemporary / science fiction sort, and it seems like this woman is doing more of a feminist alternate history sort of thing, but I’ll definitely look more into it and see if any of them are something I might want to read. “Will” could be good, it would be interesting to see his life done as a novel instead of as the plot of countless half hour television shows about bringing him into the present in a time machine.
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