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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 15h

Life with the Internet is always surprising. The first pioneer of stylometrics and the first to apply it to the Shakespeare Authorship Question... in 1887.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'The word worm occurs again in the enumeration by the witches in "Macbeth," of "the ingredients of our cauldron." But here the "blind worm's sting" is obviously intended to apply to the Anguis fragilis, [a legless lizard]..." *Insects Mentioned in Shakespeare's Plays* (1838).

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The legendary playwright has penned dramatic productions with some of the most popular monikers of all time, including Jessica and Olivia. His works are a goldmine of inspiration, —you don't have to give your child a very obvious Shakespearian name like Hamlet or Macbeth unless you want to!"

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101 Shakespeare-Inspired Baby Names That Bring the Drama and Literary Flair

If you want a baby name inspired by a classic Shakespearean character, look no further.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'“A few hours before the show starts, we slowly get some alcohol into one person,” Titchnell said. “Everybody else who is in the show is stone cold sober, so it is just the one person who is going to wreak some havoc wherever their heart takes them, but they do have an actual role within the show.”'

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Friday’s production of Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: “Macbeth” to bring chaos and humor to the stage

William Shakespeare’s works have long been reenacted on stage, but a new interpretation features a twist: one intoxicated actor amongst a sober cast. The Sh!t-faced Shakespeare traveling tour will br...

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Fontainebleau featured a massive pleasure garden, with a carved marble fountain, which would serve as portal to the magical world that had been prepared for the guests."

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Shakespeare and Catherine de Medici's Famous 1564 Carnival at Fontainebleau.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

[Video, 2:01] "Monique Holt explains how she translates Shakespeare into ASL."

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"After supper a masque Juno and Hymenaeus was performed in the hall at Whitehall Palace by courtiers..." This is the merest — and most insupportable — of conjectures. The play we know as Shakespeare's *The Tempest* was played at her wedding.

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Susan de Vere, Countess of Montgomery

English noblewoman (1587-1629)

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"If *1599* were packaged as fiction, Shapiro’s recourse to supposition would be normal. But in a nonfiction work, it starts to feel irresponsible. So, too, with Jonathan Bate’s *Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare*,..." www.ft.com/content/a05d...

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

[Video, 1:04] "Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Godwin announces collaboration with world-renowned Jim Henson's Creature Shop on puppets for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. * [It will play] DEC 4, 2026–JAN 10, 2027 at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Hall in Washington, D.C."

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Jim Henson's Creature Shop Announcement | A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

YouTube video by ShakespeareInDC

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Aside from Bob and Doug's aforementioned plot function as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, "Strange Brew" gradually departs from "Hamlet" and turns into a blitzed Abbott & Costello movie. Hamlet triumphs, the Claudii die, and Rosencrantz/Bob saves the day by guzzling an entire vat of beer..."

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This Rick Moranis Cult Classic Comedy Was Accidentally Based On A Shakespeare Play - SlashFilm

Strange Brew, the cult classic comedy starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, is partly based on a famous William Shakespeare play. Well, sort of.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Shakespeare certainly does not lack for feedback.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nurse: A man, young lady—lady, such a man As all the world—why, he’s a man of wax. Lady Capulet: Verona’s summer hath not such a flower. Nurse: Nay, he’s a flower, in faith, a very flower. Lady Capulet: What say you? Can you love the gentleman? *Romeo and Juliet*, I.iii.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just in case this might be a match for somebody...

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

[Video, 2:36] I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Richard III, I.i.

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“Now is the winter of our discontent” speech - Richard III (1995)

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El Eremita @dinamitteros.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Calibán: No temas; la isla está llena de ruidos, sonidos y dulces melodías que deleitan y no hacen daño. La Tempestad, de Shakespeare, 1611. Ilustrado por Arthur Rackham. Pluma, tinta y acuarela, 1926.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"*10 Things I Hate About You* has reached sacred status in the 27 years since it was first released and its novel use of *The Taming of the Shrew* as inspiration certainly fired up the Shakespeare-to-rom-com pipeline."

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6 of the Best Rom-Coms That Borrow From Shakespeare

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"The famous observation by William Shakespeare that the world is a stage and its inhabitants merely players remains a foundational element of literary history." That Shakespeare was so aware of French lit that he translated this quote from Pierre Ronsard is just part of the show.

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Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and the Enduring Philosophy of Life as Performance

Exploring the historical context of William Shakespeare’s 'Seven Ages of Man' speech and how the Globe Theatre’s architecture reinforced the playwright's metaphor of life as a series of distinct, evol...

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The earliest citation for the phrase would seem to be Chaucer's *Troilus and Cressida*, "Lat nat this wrechched wo thyn herte gnawe, But manly set the world on sexe and seuene” which Shakespeare had read. At first in meant "on a throw of the dice". By Sh.'s time it meant a state of confusion.

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origin of at sixes and sevens – windowthroughtime

Posts about origin of at sixes and sevens written by frimleyblogger

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Of course, without the lawyers on *our* side democracy would already be gone.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ariel... I boarded the King’s ship; now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flamed amazement.... The King’s son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring—then like reeds, not hair— Was the first man that leaped; cried “Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.”

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Seems like the reaction on Keanu's 62 birthday, yesterday, to his role on Shakespeare's *Much Ado About Nothing*, impressed various algorithms. Today, this showed well up in my suggested YouTube videos.

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keanu reeves "much ado about nothing" ALL scenes - 1080p HD

YouTube video by scenepacks

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Take away cable television, the Internet, cell phones, shopping malls, pop concerts, Disneyland, cruise packages, AI chat, movies, pro football seasons, Xanax, pot, et alii, and leave long nights with nothing but books to occupy one's time and Sam Bankman-Fried's argument is more than answered.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy 62nd birthday to Keanu Reeves. Here is 2:31 from his performance as Don John in *Much Ado About Nothing*.

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Keanu Reeves | Much Ado About Nothing | BEST SCENE

YouTube video by MOVIESCENE

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Falstaff, it may be remembered, was strangely in the habit of threatening to “have ballads” on persons who he felt had slighted him."

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The Biography of Edward de Vere in Shakespeare's Henry Plays Plus a Conjecture or Two.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

According to my notion it is of that character which I believe is generally allowed to be most captivating to the other sex — fair, feminine, nay perhaps even fragile... [Sara Siddons on the beauty of Lady Macbeth.]

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Nifty Buckles Folklore @niftybuckles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🦇🧚 #BookWormSat “Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings, To make my small elves coats.” Shakespeare’s fairies hunt bats for their leathery wings in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 🎭 🎨 Arthur Rackham, 1908 #InternationalBatNight 🦇

This artwork is an 1908 illustration by Arthur Rackham for William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, titled "Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings"

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

'Tis the time's plague, when madmen lead the blind. King Lear, IV.i.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Susan Herbert née de Vere, the Countess of Montgomery, who co-authored the novel The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania, a landmark of women's literature, which appeared under the name of Wroth alone, Vere's husband being fiercely conservative. "

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Shakespeare, the Earl of Pembroke and the First First Folios.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

'In the October 2014 Atlantic Monthly magazine article “Romeo and Juliet Has No Balcony,” we learn that the author “Lois Leveen is a historian and the author of the novels The Secrets of Mary Bowser and Juliet's Nurse.”'

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Romeo and Juliet Did Have a Balcony Scene After All.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A friend recently asked me whether Shakespeare ever made fun of the work of other writers....

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Did Shakespeare Make Fun of Other Writers?

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Looks like a rare treat. Thanks Pauline.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Helicanus. We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth, From whence we had our being and our birth. Pericles. Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to the Tarsus-sector Intend my travel, where I'll receive your sub-space transmissions; And by those transmissions I'll follow Star Fleet orders.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by. This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.

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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 06/08/2026

Today, I'm introducing the first-ever Data Center Bill of Rights. Communities deserve the right to reject data centers, protect their water, keep electricity bills down, and prevent states from shoving data centers down their throats.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"The irony of this is that we feel a much closer relationship to the works of Shakespeare."

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Shakespeare's Washing Machine

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Queen: There with fantastic Garlands did she come Of Crow-flowers, Nettles, Daisies, and Long Purples, That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do Dead Men's Fingers call them. *Hamlet*, IV.vii.

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Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It is after 10PM in Verona now and the courtyard empty. I'll be checking back from time to time, I'm sure, during the days.

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