I want to offer super-cheap ($10 to free) Shakespeare tickets to educators and their students in the NYC area. I'm interested in contacting both high school and college teachers. Would they likely welcome this or consider it spam? Is there some kind of message board or other resource I can use to contact these folks.
posted by grumblebee
on Mar 26, 2013 -
8 answers
My friend's mom is trying to find a play that might be called "1601." Probably has as characters: Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, Shakespeare. She read it in the late 1960's, and it was full of many fart jokes, sexual allusions, etc. Was supposed to be set in Queen Elizabeth's drawing room...
We're having no luck, turning to the hive mind.....
posted by kestralwing
on Feb 26, 2013 -
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My in-laws gave me a gift certificate to the Guthrie Theater. It will pay for two tickets (for me and my wife) to one play. Given the cost of babysitting, tickets, and dinner, this may be the only play I will see this year. I'd like to see something by Shakespeare.
Here are my choices:
As You Like It - performed by The Acting Company;
Twelth Night - performed by Propeller; and,
Taming of the Shrew - Performed by Propeller.
Which play should I see? I'll note that I'm leaning towards either seeing As You Like It or Twelth Night, as I've seen Taming of the Shrew twice before and found the sexism made it less than enjoyable both times (I was also in a production of it during college, and found it offputting then as well.)
posted by Area Man
on Jan 18, 2013 -
12 answers
You know how sometimes when you watch (or read) a Shakespeare play, you come across a something which makes you go "Holy crap, that's one of the greatest pieces of English I've ever heard, but I'm not quite sure what it means". This happens especially often for me because I'm not a native English speaker. Well, I just watched the movie adaptation of Coriolanus a few weeks ago and I need one of the lines explained to me.
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posted by gkhan
on Jan 12, 2013 -
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I want to read public domain books (especially Shakespeare) on my Galaxy S3. But all of the apps I can find are giving me trouble. What's the best-designed and most convenient solution?
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posted by vogon_poet
on Jan 10, 2013 -
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Where can I host videos for my Shakespeare play comparison website that won't a) cost me tons due to hosting and b) be YouTube knee-jerky on copyright violation?
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posted by John Kenneth Fisher
on Oct 21, 2012 -
7 answers
Song identification filter:
I heard a song on Los Angeles independent radio the other day that included lyrics from
"Feste's Song" from Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night. Some how my duckduckgofu hath failed. Details follow.
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posted by lalalana
on Aug 20, 2012 -
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Besides Shakespeare, who are the writers with the greatest wit and rhetorical skill?
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posted by lunchbox
on Mar 29, 2012 -
56 answers
Taking children, ages 16, 15, and 10, to see Romeo & Juliet. Should I explain it to them first?
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posted by Flood
on Feb 29, 2012 -
22 answers
Who are good candidates for reasonably being labelled "The Brazilian Shakespeare"?
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posted by Bwithh
on Feb 21, 2012 -
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Macbeth: Looking for a good annotated version of the Scottish play, geared toward a lay reader without a lot of Shakespeare knowledge, rather than an academic or expert. Open to one with a modern "translation" on each facing page. Interested in hardcopy, not electronic format. Thanks!
posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell
on Feb 7, 2012 -
4 answers
A bunch of supposedly literate people at Christmas dinner couldn't decide from what piece of classical English literature we all half-remember the phrase "to out-[
Person] [
Person]", or "it out-[
Person]s [
Person]". We were all sure it was from Shakespeare, but a quick regular expression search of Gutenberg found nothing. Can you think of examples of that construction?
posted by nicwolff
on Dec 26, 2011 -
8 answers
I am trying to find the name of a short story that involved a socially awkward actor brought out of his shell romantically by Shakespeare's words.
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posted by noyb42
on Oct 15, 2011 -
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Please recommend a video production of "The Merchant of Venice" best suited for an 8-year-old.
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posted by e-man
on Oct 13, 2011 -
8 answers
I'm looking for academic linguistic papers and/or books on classification of sentence structures. (Should I turn on the languagehat signal?)
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posted by Mr. Bad Example
on Sep 13, 2011 -
9 answers
Looking for a Shakespeare quote about the prince having been the ideal every man wished to be.
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posted by ldthomps
on Jul 19, 2011 -
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Trying to find this Shakespeare passage: two guards talking idly, something about prevaricators being first in line for hell, etc. Ring a bell for anyone? thanks!
posted by the mad poster!
on Jun 21, 2011 -
4 answers
I am looking for great performances of Lady Macbeth. Please point me towards any recordings (video, audio) of Lady M's finest moments. I don't need whole productions of
Macbeth, just great performances of Macbeth's wife. Online, preferably.
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posted by crossoverman
on Jun 17, 2011 -
8 answers
If you were doing an outdoor guerrilla community Shakespeare play, where each scene was performed in a different public place, which one would you choose?
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posted by jeffmshaw
on May 11, 2011 -
24 answers
I've heard from more than one academic source that Shakespeare's plays weren't considered particularly "high art" in his time, being somewhat more on the level of TV sitcoms of today. How accurate is that assessment? If it is accurate, what
was considered highbrow literature at the time and why?
posted by telstar
on Apr 2, 2011 -
20 answers
Thespians of Metafilter: What should I, a humble stage acting newbie, expect when auditioning for a role with his local theatre company?
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posted by TheOtherGuy
on Feb 5, 2011 -
7 answers
If one were to collect scenes from Shakespeare films to compare how different productions approached them differently, what scenes should be selected?
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posted by John Kenneth Fisher
on Aug 13, 2010 -
23 answers
I am looking for information about the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-Upon-Avon (part of the University of Birmingham, UK). Specifically, I am wondering about its reputation for teaching and research. I am an American student considering attending for an MA in Shakespeare Studies, but don't feel like I have enough information to make a decision.
posted by adty
on Jul 7, 2010 -
4 answers
AcademiaFilter: Help me find some references for my first thesis chapter. JSTOR and similar resources aren't yielding a lot of hits. I need background material for justifying selecting editions of Elizabethan dramatic texts.
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posted by Mr. Bad Example
on Jun 2, 2010 -
11 answers
Help me remember a quote that features the word "beautiful" several times... Seriously, please help because it's driving me batty.
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posted by BlahLaLa
on Feb 26, 2010 -
10 answers
I need help remembering the most famous Shakespeare references in modern literature.
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posted by Viola
on Oct 9, 2009 -
40 answers
Does anyone know where I can obtain online a copy of Hamlet's famous soliloquy "To be, or not to be..." in Arabic?
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posted by Biru
on Sep 10, 2009 -
3 answers
I seek a tome of knowledge pertaining to the Bard of Avalon, one William Shakespeare hight by name. To meet my wishes, it is meet said tome contains a listing of all personae dramatica in each play who meet their end, timely or no. Doth such a book exist?
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posted by starvingartist
on Sep 2, 2009 -
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Looking for a website that retells the plots of Shakespeare's plays. Using modern English, in short story form.
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posted by thisperon
on Aug 17, 2009 -
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I want to invite a woman (via letter) I like out on a date to see a Shakespearean play later this month. I want it to read somewhat like the general language used in his writings, but also instantly understandable to someone not very familiar with his plays and/or language. If someone could point me to a resource to help out or if you're willing to rewrite it yourself, I'd be very thankful.
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posted by Jason Land
on Jul 5, 2009 -
7 answers
Where to eat before an evening performance at Shakespeare's Globe in London?
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posted by Joleta
on Apr 24, 2009 -
16 answers
Help me find more non-purist adaptations of Shakespeare's plays in books and film, please. Caveat postor: they need to actually be good.
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posted by zoomorphic
on Mar 4, 2009 -
28 answers
HighSchoolTwelfthNightProductionFilter: Help me set some Shakespearean songs to 1920's dixieland jazz melodies.
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posted by HeroZero
on Jan 5, 2009 -
10 answers
Can you recommend any good print editions of Shakespeare in non-modernized orthography, priced for regular folks (not university libraries)?
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posted by No-sword
on Dec 22, 2008 -
13 answers
Secret Santa filter!!!
What to get a co-worker for her secret santa present? Shakespeare related gift required.
Price preferably around $30 AUD
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posted by robotot
on Nov 30, 2008 -
17 answers
Which characters from Shakespeare's plays do the party leaders in the Canadian federal election resemble most?
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posted by stokast
on Oct 4, 2008 -
6 answers
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Halloween is fast approaching and I need help creating some apothecary style props from the Bard's well known witches chant based on the introduction to
That Scottish Play. Most of my audience isn't going to remember much past "eye of newt and toe of frog" but being a geek about details I'd like to try to create a tableaux of the entire contents of that cauldron.
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posted by rosebengal
on Aug 20, 2008 -
11 answers
Please recommend me some good commentary on Shakespeare's sonnets and tell me why you like it.
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posted by sleevener
on Aug 9, 2008 -
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