Category Archives: Shakespeare

THE CONTROVERSY AT THE GLOBE—-WAS IT “SNOBBERY” TO CHANGE ARTISTIC DIRECTORS? Emma Rice’s departure, like her original appointment, is very controversial, as can be seen in the comments quoted in the Hannah Furness article. The board of the Globe had … Continue reading →

THE DIRECTOR OF THE GLOBE THEATRE, WHO SAID THAT SHAKESPEARE MAKES HER “VERY SLEEPY”, WILL LEAVE HER POSITION. I posted here in June of this year about how Emma Rice, who had been appointed to be artistic director of the … Continue reading →

IDENTITY, HUSBANDS AND WIVES, AND DROPS OF WATER. The other speech I have been thinking about occurs when the wife of one of the twins goes looking for her husband and encounters her husband’s twin, who does not recognize her. … Continue reading →

IDENTITY, TWINS AND DROPS OF WATER. Last week, we went to hear—and see—a staged reading of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS directed by Ruth Anne Baumgartner. It was very well done. This week I have been thinking about two speeches in … Continue reading →

NINNYHAMMERS. Mary Jane is currently rewriting the third play in her Lives of Shakespeare trilogy. She remembered the word “ninnyhammer” from somewhere, and it fit perfectly in the lines of dialogue she was writing. But was the word in use … Continue reading →

ELM SHAKESPEARE’S MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. We went to the Elm Shakespeare Company’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream outdoors in New Haven two nights ago. There were lots of new insights for me which would have come from the director, … Continue reading →

REVENGE IN SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES. Duane’s question “whether you could find some level of revenge in just about all the plays, short of the silliest comedies” provokes a second look at the comedies. When he points out that Oberon’s revenge on … Continue reading →

ARE MOST SHAKESPEARE PLAYS REVENGE PLAYS? I had missed the Shakespeare Geek blog discussion in 2009 of this post I made in 2009. (In my post I discussed a friend’s question—which Shakespeare play should she assign to her 8th graders. … Continue reading →

WHO WROTE EDWARD III?—WHAT’S MY OPINION? I had read Edward III before going to see it, and I missed some of the things that good actors and a good director will find in the text. Notably, I missed the success … Continue reading →