Want to Read Some Shakespeare?A Goodreads Infographic Want to Watch some Shakespeare?The earliest surviving British film version of Shakespeare's Richard III, accompanied by a specially commissioned score by Laura Rossi. The film presents highlights from a stage version performed in Stratford in 1910. h/t Henry SotheranWant to listen to some Shakespeare? And Calm of Mind courtesy of BBC Radio 4Listen as ex-soldiers turn to Shakespeare and Henry V to tackle the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. "I'd rather take a patrol around Belfast" says the man playing the French herald, Montjoy.
Romeo and Juliet for the Smartphone Set
This visual is part of a new ad from AT&T.The accompanying text: Classic Literature, Reimagined For The Smartphone Era Forget star-crossed lovers joining one another in death ... being restricted to one form of communication is a REAL tragedy. AT&T's network lets you talk and surf at the same time on your Smartphone, so you'll know what's going on in the world, what's cracking with your friends, or what's happening in fair Verona.Here are two others in the AT&T Talk & Surf campaign - Kafka and Wilde:
The Bard by the Numbers
via NoSweatShakespeare
Hamlet on a Bookmark
It started as a joke between cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and designer Katie Sekelsky. Wienersmith commented about being "so bookish, my bookmarks are smaller books’ and from there they got to the t-shirt design below.Luckily, they weren't done yet. What if the could make a bookmark that is also a book?And they did - using 1.29pt font! Weinersmith says, "you can make out names like Bernardo and Hamlet with the naked eye and read the whole thing with a 10x magnifying glass. "Our assumption is that people are doing this for the charm of having the whole thing right there, rather than for convenience.”In his...
Be mean with Shakespeare: The Shakespeare insult kit
Ready to throw the verbal knockout?Choose one word from each column - you weedy motley-minded scut!via