Anarchist Society of Shakespeareans

The Slam was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who came out...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:07:57 -0400

The Slam was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who came out to play! Here’s the Shakespearean Mad Lib we did :). Happy Friday, everyone!

Come to the Shakespeare Slam this Saturday at the Burren in...

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:19:35 -0400

Come to the Shakespeare Slam this Saturday at the Burren in Davis Square from 2 pm to 5 pm!

Details available on our Facebook Event Page!

Happy Birthday, dear Bard!

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:32:47 -0400

Happy Birthday, dear Bard!

Back in the Saddle

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:17:00 -0400

That’s right, we are saddling up our A.S.S., and ready to perform at the Bookish Ball in Harvard Square, Saturday April 20th at 2:30pm!

Schedule of Events and information available here:

http://harvardsquare.com/Home/News/The-6th-Annual-Bookish-Ball-and-Shakespeare-s-Birt.aspx

Boldness

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:16:00 -0400

Boldness:

Royal Shakespeare Company names Gregory Doran as artistic director

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:00:05 -0400

Royal Shakespeare Company names Gregory Doran as artistic director

"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds..."

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:31:25 -0400

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.”

- Sonnet XVIII

in honor of our beautiful weather :)

This looks really interesting. Shakespeare & Tarantino fans...

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:11:19 -0400

This looks really interesting. Shakespeare & Tarantino fans in the Chicago area - I’d say it’s a must-see :)

Shakespeare's sonnets set to music

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:27:59 -0400

Shakespeare's sonnets set to music:

I already want to buy this, just from the few gorgeous bits they play in the video clip :)

This is fantastic - Part 1 of BBC’s Animated Shakespeare...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:09:00 -0400

This is fantastic - Part 1 of BBC’s Animated Shakespeare Tales Julius Caesar

"Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. CAESAR: What man is that? BRUTUS: A soothsayer bids you beware..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:03:00 -0400

“Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR: What man is that?
BRUTUS: A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
CAESAR: Set him before me; let me see his face.
CASSIUS: Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
CAESAR: What say’st thou to me now? speak once again.
Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR: He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.”

- Julius Caesar Act. I Sc.ii

Shakespeare adaptation made for one woman

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:34:12 -0500

Shakespeare adaptation made for one woman:

Right in time for International Women’s Day, an article about Susanna Hamnett’s one woman production of Nearly Lear

"Struggling with Shakespeare? There's an app for that"

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:30:47 -0500

"Struggling with Shakespeare? There's an app for that":

The Beatles perform Shakespeare in 1964 in honor of the...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:50:45 -0500

The Beatles perform Shakespeare in 1964 in honor of the Bard’s 400th Birthday

Lenny Henry - what Shakespeare taught me

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:42:00 -0500

Lenny Henry - what Shakespeare taught me:

Wonderful piece by Lenny Henry about how he went from hating to loving the Bard.

"Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the..."

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:29:00 -0500

“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I
Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines
Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
When my dimensions are as well compact,
My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
As honest madam’s issue? Why brand they us
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
More composition and fierce quality
Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,
Got ‘tween asleep and wake? Well, then,
Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:
Our father’s love is to the bastard Edmund
As to the legitimate: fine word,—legitimate!
Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!”

- Edmund, King Lear Act. I Sc.ii

Shakespeare Theatre Company Announces New Education Initiative for DC Schools

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:14:05 -0500

Shakespeare Theatre Company Announces New Education Initiative for DC Schools

Afghan actors gear up for Shakespeare at London Olympics

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:22:00 -0500

Afghan actors gear up for Shakespeare at London Olympics:

(Reuters) - The odds were against them: Taliban suicide bombers laid siege to their rehearsal space and the search for actresses in ultra-conservative Afghanistan was long and arduous.

But come late May, a band of Afghan performers will be staging a play by William Shakespeare in their native Dari at London’s Globe Theatre, part of a cultural festival designed to lead up to the Olympics.

Click on the Measure for Measure poster on our Past...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:56:00 -0500

Click on the Measure for Measure poster on our Past Productions page for photos from the play, courtesy of Joshua Pickering, photographer.

'Shakespeare Remembered,' the bard through time at the Beinecke

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:03:05 -0500

'Shakespeare Remembered,' the bard through time at the Beinecke:

“Shakespeare Remembered” will be on exhibit from Feb. 1, 2012 to June 4, 2012 at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.