r/shakespeare

Do we have a definitive answer on Shakespeare beliefs? Devout Protestant? Secret Catholic or Just a atheist pretending ?

I read all of Shakespeare last year and this is one I wish I could see acted out in play form just to see the special effects. I don’t hear about it as much (or at all) as the more popular ones, and curious if that’s because it’s more difficult to act out or if people are just adverse to violence.

I know that this is so random and so niche but has anyone watched Veep and read Shakespeares King Lear and also feel like Selena Meyer and King Lear are just so similar.

They both have an incredibly quick temper, cursing out anyone who doesn’t instantly do exactly what they want. They’re both narcissists, love power and control AND they both descend into madness.
They also both end up completely alone because they’re both sociopaths and alienate everyone.

Hahaha please I need someone to confirm this I can’t be the only one who’s made this connection

Hi, I'm a South Korean student attending to Daeshin Middle School. While I was doing a research about <The Merchant of Venice> for my reading club presentation, I wondered if Shakespeare was antisemitic. Was it sympathy or discrimination that made Shakespeare to make Shylock's speach that way? I sent e-mails to many honored Korean professors and even to the Harvard professors whom I thought could give an answer to my question, but all of them only told me what to research on, not their opinions. So, I just wanted to know your opinions about my question above. Thanks for reading although my English is not good enough, and I'll be waiting for your answers.

-Sol from Korea

The title basically. However I really don't want to spend anymore money, but I also want the best reading of the bard I could have. My 2 questions.

1 The Title

2 What order should I read them in

Also could you please up-vote it would help a lot.

Thanks a ton :)

...this passage?

‘I remember that Boromir bore a horn,’ [Frodo] said at last.

‘You remember well, and as one who has in truth seen him,’ said Faramir. ‘Then maybe you can see it in your mind’s eye: a great horn of the wild ox of the East, bound with silver, and written with ancient characters.

So:

HAMLET My father, methinks I see my father.

HORATIO Where, my lord?

HAMLET In my mind's eye, Horatio.

I mean, both Faramir and Hamlet are here talking about dead people (brother and father: Boromir and Hamlet Sr.) and they are of course going through grief.

We’re expecting our 3rd child, 2nd daughter. Our first two children have very rare, short, beautiful Shakespearean names. We’d love to stay on this theme but haven’t found anything Shakespearean we both love. The current agreed upon front runner is Rosalind but it’s a bit longer than I like and neither of us looooove it. Here are my lists below that husband doesn’t like, so I’d really welcome OTHER suggestions please to broaden our options (Shakespeare-linked or otherwise).

Note, we’re UK based but are North American so we say hard ‘R’s. For example, I like how Arden sounds with a British accent but I don’t like how I say it.

Shakespearean list:
Lennox
Viola
Sonnet
Leonine “Leonie”
Luce
Silvia
Fife
Elsinore

Other names I like:
Pallas
Ione/Iona
Daphne
Ilsa
Leonie

TIA!

Hey, just finished reading Macbeth and thoroughly enjoyed it, but I also like to read analysis’s afterwards.

Does anyone have any good act by act analysis recommendations on Macbeth? Not just summaries but full focus on how the dramatic and language techniques convey different things, i’ve checked on websites like litcharts, sparknotes, scribd, JSTOR had a looot so still looking through that. But most seem really surface level.

Anyone who has studied Macbeth have any recommendations? Thanks!

I am genuienly asking here!

See,my only previous experience with Shakespeare's work is what we were taught in High School English,the very thing that sours a lot of people on his work. We also covered some of his works in my Performing Arts course but it's been over a decade since then.

I am interested in reading more of his works but I need recommendations on how to jump in without getting bored and turned off like in High School.

Anything that'll make it easy to get interested? Any books or performance recordings?

LA Times profiles a fantastic theater festival that has become the main attraction in Ashland:

>Just 16 miles north of the California border, enchanting Ashland, Ore., has drawn theater fans for more than 90 years. The city owes its modern tourism economy in large part to William Shakespeare.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival runs from spring to fall annually, attracting many of the 350,000 annual visitors to the city of 21,000 residents. Locals and travelers gather to watch live productions in venues like the Allen Elizabethan Theatre — modeled after a 1599 London playhouse, with a three-story Tudor facade — where for one magical evening, they’re transported to Shakespeare’s heyday.