shakespeare

Well, it’s the thing that inspired David Wroblewski's The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and Lin Enger's Undiscovered Country, both of which are obvious takes on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Yes, it’s a timeless plot, but it’s somebody else’s timeless plot…and an overdone one if this keeps up.

Or perhaps that should be, how to destroy the Bard with a few brisk pen strokes. The No Fear Shakespeare series from Spark Publishing translates the language of Shakespeare into today’s common vernacular, from “To be, or not to be” to "The question is: is it better to be alive or dead?” This well-written and amusing review is worth a read even if the books aren’t.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet are being rendered in manga and will be released next month by John Wiley and Sons. The bard’s greatest hits will "combine the stunning effects of manga while remaining true to the original context," says project developer Adam Sexton.

Scooby Doo and the gang unmask the ghost and solve the mystery of Hamlet. Very cute.

With an obvious nod to The Da Vinci Code, Jennifer Lee Carrell has written a two-tiered academic action yarn in which the murder mystery rests on a literary question: Who was William Shakespeare?

A Jacobean court case in which Shakespeare was called as a witness sheds light on the ordinary daily life of the playwright.

Ok, so Dirty Shakespeare may not be new, but this new little read could be entertaining.
I bet they dont teach that in school.

The debate over the true authorship of William Shakespeare's plays continues with an announcement of a "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt" filed by the former artistic director of the Globe Theater, Mark Rylance.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22389034-2902,00.html

A group of acclaimed Shakespearean actors has reopened the case on the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays in an attempt to legitimize and prompt academic debate and eventual resolution of the issue. You can sign the declaration here. If you do, you’ll be among such famous doubters as Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and Mark Twain.

This is obviously a very special relationship formed from a love of literature.
But I must have a grotty mind; as I read this I just could not help feeling like there was something up.
Certainly no point in the article indicated anything wrong. Perhaps my ill feeling is a sad indication of the way things are today.