WA Darlington, The Telegraph April 23, 2014 William Aubrey Cecil Darlington (1890-1979) wrote a comic novel in 1920 called Alf’s Button, which was adapted into several films. He was for many years the Drama Critic of the Daily Telegraph and this ‘Op-Ed’ comment piece appeared on page 16 of the newspaper on April 23, 1964, to mark the 400th anniversary […]
Dan Falk, Scientific American April 23, 2014 From The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright’s Universe, by Dan Falk. Copyright © 2014, by the author. Reprinted by permission of Thomas Dunne Books. In the last few years, a handful of scholars have begun to look more closely at Shakespeare’s interest in the scientific discoveries of his time—asking what he […]
Dara Lind, Vox April 23, 2014 Here’s a basic rule: if you’re reading or watching a Shakespeare play, and you’re not imagining the actors standing in front of a mosh pit of jeering Londoners waiting to throw vegetables at the stage, you’re doing it wrong. Shakespeare might have written the best works in the English language, or given us […]
Eleanor Kagan and Anabel Bacon, NPR April 23, 2014 What hath the Bard wrought? William Shakespeare was a word-nerd if we ever saw one, and he’s left a legacy of terms and idioms that have since diffused throughout pop culture, writing and colloquial speech. You’ve probably been quoting language Shakespeare helped popularize (“eyeball”, “lonely”, “gossip”), without even knowing it. Though […]
Jeff Deeney, Huffington Post April 23, 2014 How high was Shakespeare? Research published in 2001 revealed residues of cocaine, marijuana and myristic acid, a nutmeg-derived hallucinogen, in 17th-century clay-pipe fragments dug up from the garden of his home. Of course, we won’t let the fact that only circumstantial evidence links these pipes with Shakespeare get in the way of some good speculating. Francis […]
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