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Antic Shake Presents: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Antic Shakespeare Theatre Company presents their spring production: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare’s production of two pairs of star-crossed lovers, an inept band of actors, and two opposing fairy camps is…

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(via 11 Strange and Wonderful Shakespeare Adaptations | Mental Floss) In honor both of the Antic Shakes’ production of Midsummer Night’s Dream opening this Friday (4/19) and next Tuesday’s National Talk Like Shakespeare Day (4/23), I’m sharing list of Mental Floss’ “11 most strange productions, original plays, and acting companies” based on/paying homage to Shakespeare’s body of work.

(via 11 Strange and Wonderful Shakespeare Adaptations | Mental Floss)

In honor both of the Antic Shakes’ production of Midsummer Night’s Dream opening this Friday (4/19) and next Tuesday’s National Talk Like Shakespeare Day (4/23), I’m sharing list of Mental Floss’ “11 most strange productions, original plays, and acting companies” based on/paying homage to Shakespeare’s body of work.

Next weekend!

Next weekend!

Why no, I’m sure the 16th century armored soldiers just happened to be on their way somewhere to be captured in the carpark at the initiation of the excavation. (via Human remains found in Leicester car park DO belong to Richard III as scientists prepare to reveal results of DNA testing | Mail Online)

Why no, I’m sure the 16th century armored soldiers just happened to be on their way somewhere to be captured in the carpark at the initiation of the excavation. (via Human remains found in Leicester car park DO belong to Richard III as scientists prepare to reveal results of DNA testing | Mail Online)

Newsreel footage of Orson Welles’Voodoo MacBeth. Get familiar!

Changing Hands!

Since Antic Shakespeare is now an officialDuke University student organization, it’s time to pass off this blog to capable student hands. I hope you’ll stay tuned for more Shakespeare tidbits and information about campus performances from the troupe. For now the new page http://anticshakesofficial.tumblr.com/ looks very similar but under new ownership there might be some artistic changes. Stay tuned!

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As a preview for next fall's Theater Studies' production of Middleton's Women Beware Women, a consideration of his possible collaboration with Shakespeare on All's Well That Ends Well.

Did Shakespeare And Middleton Write Together?

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A belated birthday wish to Willie Shakes!

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All of his plays are about how you live as human beings, in families, in society, in nations. Shakespeare’s not pedantic and not telling you the right way to do something. He asks, ‘what if?’ and, ‘now what?’ and, ‘how do you want the world to be?’
All the world’s a stage: Introducing the biggest Shakespeare festival ever - Features - Theatre & Dance - The Independent

Seemed appropriate given our turn to the Jacobean next Fall. (via The Indoor Jacobean Theatre: Introduction | Shakespeare’s Globe Blog)

Seemed appropriate given our turn to the Jacobean next Fall. (via The Indoor Jacobean Theatre: Introduction | Shakespeare’s Globe Blog)

And on this day that celebrates foolery, the BBC turns to Shakespeare & the modern "wise fool".

“Shakespearean fools: Their modern equivalents”

My Girlfriend’s Gone Crazy And My Mom Married My Uncle
These titles and more when you subscribe to Country Song Shakespeare | Shakespeare Geek.

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SPOILER ALERT: #10 on their list is “The Bear” from The Winter’s Tale. (via The 10 best Shakespeare characters | Culture | The Observer)

SPOILER ALERT: #10 on their list is “The Bear” from The Winter’s Tale. (via The 10 best Shakespeare characters | Culture | The Observer)

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A Shakespeare studies scholarship assists a historian unearth the musical world of late nineteenth-century productions of Henry V.

‘Henry V’: In search of an ending… | Blogging Shakespeare