#shakespearesaturday

[sarahrcubitt13]

Happy #ShakespeareSaturday been a while eh? Today we will introducing you to Cole Singer, you’ll have high hopes for this leading man (least in his mind) let’s see if he proves us right or wrong in #NothingHappened coming soon to @wattpad https://www.instagram.com/p/CTZOgLuqMgn/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sarahrcubitt13]

Happy #shakespeareSaturday this character reveals is our main man himself Benny Quinn! This jokester is far more than meets the eye… and that’s all I’m gonna say. You’ll have to find out more when you read #NothingHappened coming soon to @wattpad https://www.instagram.com/p/CRbQuI_lRzg/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sarahrcubitt13]

Happy #shakespearesaturday this character tease is for the bookworm and best friend of Hana Davis. Leah is a soft spoken character who sees a lot more than she says. Her friendship with Hana is one of my favourites to write! You will see more of her in #NothingHappened coming soon to @wattpad https://www.instagram.com/p/CRI76iJF0n7/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sarahrcubitt13]

Happy #ShakespeareSaturday our first sneak peak character is of Miss Hana Davis. A sweet girl with the heart of a lioness I can promise you that Miss Davis will be one of many characters you fall in love with in #NothingHappened coming soon to @wattpad https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ30KoHlCs1/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lokimorningstar]

#shakespearesaturday with some #hamlet

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#RomeoAndJuliet 09-30-2017 #GuthrieTheater @guthrietheater #WilliamShakespeare #ShakespeareSaturday #matinee #Minneapolis (at Guthrie Theater)

[booksbeyondimagining]

Shakespeare Saturday | Recommendations

Things based on Shakespeare that aren’t full out Shakespeare.

Movies:

Were the World Mine - gay boy living in a cute litte homophobic town gets cast as Puck at his all-boys private school in their production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream the Musical. He magically discovers how to create the flower Puck uses to make people fall in love with the first living thing they see and turns the whole town gay. There is singing and magic and dreams and it is remarkably beautiful and the soundtrack is amazing.

Ten Things I Hate About You - modern day (okay 90s) Taming of the Shrew wih Heath Ledger doing an iconic lip-sync dance and penis-drawings on faces.

She’s the Man - adaption of Twelfth Night. I have read it nor seen this movie but it has Amanda Bynes in it and she pretends to be her twin for some reason.

West Side Story - Romeo and Juliet the 50s gang musical! If you can’t see a live production of it there is a movie version!

Books:

Dreamers Often Lie by Jacqueline West - this sounds really interesting and I want to read it. It is about a girl who, after getting some head trauma, starts seeing Shakespeare characters everywhere and thinks she is just hallucinating until one of them turns out to be real.

I, Iago by Nicole Galland - Iago’s pov in Othello. I haven’t read this myself but I want to because I once did an experiment where the second time I read Othello I read it with the idea of Iago being the protagonist rather than Othello and it really changes your perspective of the story. I did this because we had been discussing protagonists in class and how to decide who is the protagonist and how each character is the protagonist in their own mind and since I had already read it once two years prior I decided to see what would happen if I did and tbh I liked it a lot more that way.

These are the only ones I know of off the top of my head feel free to add more!

[doyareadme]

Is the Bard Your Bag?

Unless you’ve been living in the Forest of Arden, it’s probably not escaped your notice that 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Celebrations are taking place all year long across the country, with the central spotlight falling on 23rd April (tomorrow!), the Bard’s birth and death day.

Books are my Bag (BAMB), the nationwide campaign that celebrates books and bookshops, are hosting their very own event tomorrow, Shakespeare Saturday, to honour the mighty Bard. Participating bookshops are organising fun-filled days in store on your local high street, which you should pop along to!

On the day, you can get your hands on an iconic orange BAMB tote bag, featuring none other than a somewhat shady looking Shakespeare. And as I’m sure you’ll agree, you can NEVER have enough tote bags…

As good luck with have it, we’re never too far away from the Bard’s influence on our language. Whilst reading Shakespeare in class might sound all Greek to you, plays might seem to take forever and a day to finish and essay questions leave you in a pickle, we have to say fair play to Shakespeare. After all, a huge number of phrases he’s coined have made their way into our everyday speech, most of the time without us even realising where the turn of phrase originated from. In honour of the Bard and his way with words, we wanted to take a look at some of these words and phrases that are now part of our everyday speech.

All that glitters is not gold Prince of Morocco, 2.7, The Merchant of Venice

Be-all and the end-all Macbeth, 1.7, Macbeth

It was Greek to me Casca, 1.2, Julius Caesar

Seen better days Flavius, 4.2, Timon of Athens

Break the ice Tranio, 1.2, Taming of the Shrew

In this pickle Alonso, 5.1, The Tempest

Eaten out of house and home Mistress Quickly, 2.1, Henry IV Part II

Green-eyed monster Iago, 3.3, Othello

I have not slept one wink Pisanio, 3.4, Cymbeline

Love is blind Jessica, 2.6, The Merchant of Venice

The world’s mine oyster Pistol, 2.2, The Merry Wives of Windsor

I must be cruel, only to be kind Hamlet, 3.4, Hamlet

 Happy Shakespeare Saturday folks!

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