How to have a Shakespeare stay-cation, alternatively entitled: If you think I’m not nerdy enough, just wait I decided to take some much needed time off this week and give myself an extra long weekend. I couldn’t really decide how I wanted to use that time, though, until I had the idea to see how much Shakespeare-related stuff I could…
Month: January 2018
2018 by way of 1600
After my most recent post (regarding Shakespeare’s continued relevance), I thought it would be fun to share a few of Shakespeare’s plays that feel especially relevant today. The ones that feel like they were written for 2018 more than 1600 or 1610 or 1593, etc. The list I’ve come up with are plays (in no particular order) that I would…
Why Shakespeare remains relevant
I’ve sporadically mentioned Shakespeare’s relevance in other posts, but I wanted to dive a little bit more into this. I feel like the Bard’s eternal relevance is frequently lauded, and I hint at this in my post summing up what I learned from my “Finding the Bard” project. But what about his work is relevant? And how is that even…