Dr. Carl Atkins is the author of Shakespeare’s Sonnets: With Three Hundred Years of Commentary as well as a prolific commenter here at ShakespeareGeek, both while holding down a day job as a medical doctor. Instead of a typical author interview with press blurbs and bio questions we decided to do something different – Carl’s … Continue reading To Willie Hughes It May Concern

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ahmed-rehab/michael-jackson-why-hes-m_b_221652.html Over the last couple days I’ve heard my fair share of “Michael Jackson was the Shakespeare of our generation” comparisons on Twitter, trust me.  But I found this article particularly moronic in its adulation. I hate the opening premise – that while Dickens and Mozart and others may have been stars in their time, … Continue reading More Adored Than Shakespeare?

So I was reading the sonnets today at lunch.  Not somebody’s commentary, the plain text file.  I was looking for something random and romantic to text my wife on this nice spring day we’re having.  (I know, awwww…….:))  [UPDATE : I actually started this yesterday, I just realized that I’m posting it a) before lunch … Continue reading Analysis of Sonnet 12 : When I Do Count The Clock That Tells The Time

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/stephon_marbury_embroils_celtics I love it when The Onion does it Shakespeare style.  “A Director Sets A Play In the Time and Place Shakespeare Intended” is still one of the great Onion stories of all time. When you throw in my Boston Celtics, well, then it’s comedy gold. "Weird thing is, he kept calling the other guys … Continue reading Celtic Shakespeare