Saturday, April 23, 2011

Today is Shakespeare's Birthday...

My dear friend, Gayle of Gayle's Bard Blog sent me this most excellent link to a blogger project celebrating Shakespeare's birthday.  At the website you'll see links to something like 100 bloggers interested in all aspects of Bard-analia.    If you check the Bad Lawyer archive you'll find awesome links to cross-posts by Gayle and the Bad One on the Merchant of Venice  re:creditor-debtor trial involving Shylock's demand for a "pound of flesh."

Not to confuse the issue, but today is also speaketh like Shakespeare Day in Illinois.  So if you happen to be in Chicago, good luck.  Kiss an English major.

And remember:  As, painfully to pore upon a book/To seek the light of truth, while truth the while/Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look,/ Light seeking light, doth light of light beguile/So ere you find where light in darkness lies/Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.
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  1. AnonymousApril 23, 2011 at 10:21 AM

    Why not link to the Wikipedia discussion of the so-called "Shakespeare Authorship Question." That's part of understanding Shakespeare scholarship as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question

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  2. AnonymousApril 23, 2011 at 5:29 PM

    Very cool, Anon.--

    Coincidentally I saw this as the feature article of the day at Wikipedia, yesterday, presumably because of the festivities surrounding Shakespeare's BD. I sent the link along to my friend Gayle, mentioned, above. Check her blog site archive. She's written wittily, about the authorship controversy at length.

    BL

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  3. BCApril 23, 2011 at 5:56 PM

    I just saw Gayle's Birthday blog post. Wow!

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  4. GayleApril 23, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    Thanks, BL. It's so good to have you back--as yourself, as a blogger, and (selfishly I admit) as my best reader! Thanks for the "talk like Shakespeare" link, too! I confess I can only talk like Chaucer, though--you can take the girl out of medieval studies, but you can't take the medieval studies out of the girl: "Herewyth ich wysshe thee and eek thy familee a verray happye Ester Daye. And ayein moste I saye that ich am moste gladde that thou art ayein fre from the foule prisoun wherein thou haste langwysshed lo thise manye monthes. Ich lok forwarde to redeynge all thy wondrous postes in the wekes to come." Wasn't it cool when there were no spelling rules? I mean, spellynge rewles?

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  5. AnonymousApril 23, 2011 at 9:55 PM

    Gayle--

    That was wonderful, I mean your improvised medieval spellings and grammar...I wish I could blame my grammatical lapses and editing errors on speaking like Chaucer. You do it so well. Yes, dear friend it is a marvelous thing to be home this Easter with family and friends. I wish you and yours and all the followers of this and Bard Blogs everywhere a very Happy Easter.

    BL

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  6. okiedokeApril 24, 2011 at 1:05 PM

    It's Gayles birthday?

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