Get Thee to Central Park

Summer means Shakespeare outdoors. Do free Shakespeare productions enrich the public or merely dilute the work of Shakespeare?

Shakespeare at Suffolk Community College
http://www3.sunysuffolk.edu/Calendar/artsschedule.
asp?print=TRUE&linkID=0

Shakespeare in the parking lot
http://www.ludlowten.org/shakes.html

Shakespeare at Central Park
http://www.publictheater.org/sicp/home.cfm

Read As You Like It on-line
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/asyoulikeit/full.html

Read Two Gentleman of Verona on-line
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/two_gentlemen/index.html

Shakespeare's Last Will and Testament
http://home.hiwaay.net/~paul/shakspere/shakwill.html

View Shakespeare's quarto manuscripts
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html

Snob at Slate disses Shakespeare for the masses
http://www.slate.com/id/2121744/

Read Shakespeare and prove the snob wrong.
Buy the complete Shakespeare or one play at a time.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395754909/qid=
1120169085/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-0090797-8671245

Sonnets
http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/

Shakesepeare sonnet that I can recite by heart:
While memorizing a sonnet you gain a new appreciation for the form.

CXL

Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
If I might teach thee wit, better it were,
Though not to love, yet, love to tell me so;
As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,
No news but health from their physicians know;
For, if I should despair, I should grow mad,
And in my madness might speak ill of thee;
Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,
Mad slanderers by mad ears believed be.
That I may not be so, nor thou belied,
Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide.
 


       

Word of the Day

Abecedarian

Function: adjective
1 a : of or relating to the alphabet b : alphabetically arranged
2 : RUDIMENTARY

Pronunciation: "A-bE-(")sE-'der-E-&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English abecedary, from Medieval Latin abecedarium alphabet, from Late Latin, neuter of abecedarius of the alphabet, from the letters a + b + c + d
: one learning the rudiments of something (as the alphabet)