Shakespeare makes life better.
After her boyfriend used the expression “bumping uglies,” a Twitter follower asked me if our dear Bard had any better euphemisms for…well, bumping uglies. I put the word out an suggestions started rolling in. I thought it might be fun to collect them here for future reference. Feel free to add ones that we missed! … Continue reading Hey Baby, Want To Bump Euphemisms?
A month ago I asked, How should we deal with Anonymous? In general, other than some assorted Twitter chats, I’ve not said much. But today it opens, and it’s come to my attention that people (students in particular) may show up here looking for a counter argument. So I wanted to use this space not … Continue reading Our Position on “Anonymous”
I got into work this morning to a note from Bardfilm that he’d started a new game on Twitter that he called, “Shakespearean First Drafts”. As has become our new policy, here’s a best-of post for posterity: “We are all made of dream stuff.” “Hey look, it’s Juliet up in the balcony. Hi, Juliet!” “Brutus … Continue reading Best of “Shakespearean First Drafts”
Now that the experts have been gathered at 60 Minutes With Shakespeare to answer the very important scholarly issue of Shakespearean authorship, I thought maybe we could queue up some other equally important issues for them to tackle next? Five Questions Just As Important As Shakespeare Authorship, Seriously, No, We Really Mean It, No Sarcasm … Continue reading Five Other Important Shakespeare Questions
Score one for my mom, who has apparently been paying attention when I talk. A few weeks ago she handed me Arliss Ryan’s The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare , which she’d picked up at a yard sale for fifty cents. “I saw Shakespeare and thought of you,” she told me. I enjoy that this … Continue reading Review : The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare