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Shakespearian Actors Frequent NYC Subway
Culture Buzz Take the L train sometime, and you might just catch these guys bringing theater to the masses with scenes from “Romeo and Juliet.” Kids love it, too.
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Image: Shakespearean Insult Kit
Ideal if you're planning on time traveling to sixteenth century England. For the lazy amongst you, you can randomly generate Shakespearean insults here.
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Phrases We Owe To Shakespeare
Culture Buzz For goodness sake. Most of these are so cliched they set your teeth on edge.
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Video: Shakespeare On The Subway
This is way better than subway dance parties. I really hope I run across these guys. Seems like it makes the trip a bit more fun. (via thedailywh.at)
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Video: New Trailer For “Anonymous”
This has Oscar nomination written all over it. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Queen Elizabeth I in this film, which explores the theory that William Shakespeare may not have written the plays and poems attributed to him.
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Shakespeare Cats
Culture Buzz A few years back, artist Susan Herbert created a series of paintings of famous scenes and characters from William Shakespeare's plays, reenacted with cats, and culminating in Shakespeare Cats. When does this get made into a movie?!
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Video: Bikini Shakespeare Reads Hamlet
It's like Sparknotes but with fewer clothes and bigger boobs. You'd have a hard time falling asleep to Shakespeare with these girls on stage. “There's the rub,” indeed.
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Video: ‘The Tempest’ Trailer
Featuring trippy weather and Helen Mirren with a big stick. (Julie Taymor turned Prospero into a lady! She also cast Russell Brand?)
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10 Famous Quotes Translated 56 Times
Culture Buzz FunnyTranslator.com is a website that will take any bit of text you enter and translate it up to 56 times through 56 different languages. Think of it as a giant game of telephone where the results are always nonsensical, generally hilarious, and occasionally profound.
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The Best #ShakesPalin Tweets
Politics Buzz I'm not quite ready to refudiate this whole ShakesPalin thing just yet. Here's a selection of the very best tweets so far, since the newly anointed Bard of Wasilla made up a word and then compared herself to Shakespeare.
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Image: English Is A Living Language
She's not wrong. Palin/Shakespeare 2012! A free turkey leg and sonnet with every vote! This is going to be a fun campaign.
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Image: Shakespeare In A Minute
Why do the boys get all the good charts? I guess because the girls have a Sassy Gay Friend.
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Video: Brian Cox: Shakespeare For Toddlers
Classically trained thespian, Brian Cox, teaches a toddler named Theo how to do Hamlet's “To be, or not to be.” By the end, the kid ain't bad.
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Link: New Shakespeare Works?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5005557/Academic...
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Dr. John Casson claims in his new book to have discovered six new works by The Bard.
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Image: Chuck Norris Sonnet
The humble beginnings of a sonnet about Chuck Norris: “Shall I compare thee to Chuck Norris? You can kick people in the face. Your nothing like a florist(?)” 11 more lines to go, Shakespeare, and you've got yourself a masterpiece.
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Link: Shakesperean Meltdown, A La Christian Bale
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2009/02/a-sixte...
Christian Bale (sorry, we're still talking about it) has got nothing on this dude, who experienced a public breakdown at the Globe Theater five centuries ago. Shakespearean theater may come and go, but actors will always be tantrum-throwing dum-dums.
