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Shakespeare in the park. I love summer.

I‘ve been sick with a persistent cough 😩

Since it had been awhile since I last read Shakespeare and I love listening to productions of plays on Hoopla, I decided to do an immersion read of As You Like It and it was such an enjoyable experience. There were lots of songs in this one, so hearing them sung was 👩🏻‍🍳😘
Not my favorite Shakespearean play, but still fun!

My third and final #roll100 for April!
#dogsoflitsy

Started my Saturday with an immersion read of Act 1 of As You Like It 🤓 #shakespeare

Drinking my morning Cup o‘ Joe from my Insults By #Shakespeare mug.

What is your favorite Shakespearean insult?

Mine is from “As You Like It” — my all-time favorite work by Shakespeare: “I do desire we may be better strangers.”

#books #WritingCommunity #author #authors #amwriting #amediting #writers #BookTwitter #BookWorm #bookstagram #shakespeare #insults #shakespeareaninsults

Billy getting cold blooded on his “birthday”.

#QuotsyFeb21 @TK-421

“All the world's a #stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”

#ChristmasQuotes #holiday

“Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday
humour and like enough to consent.”

-Rosalind, As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Good

#aprilfools #bloomingbibliophiles

That‘s cold, Bill!

(Oops, forgot to review this here!) definitely enjoyed this, tho it‘s not without its flaws. I feel like it‘s almost a dramedy rather than comedy, there‘s some heavy stuff in here alongside the lighter things like the clown scenes, the lovers‘ laments, ladies-dressed-as-men trope. Also another one with just a bit too much crammed into a short play. Could‘ve done w/o one or two little side arcs. But still great & a quick, mostly light read. 4/5 ⭐️

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy.
This wide and universal theater
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

According to my Goodreads, I read this one at some long ago point in my life, because I had it on my vague “read before 2011” shelf (2011 being the year I started using Goodreads in earnest), but I have no memory of it at all. So technically a reread but one that‘ll feel new. 👌🏻🎭 #nowreading

#winter

#poetrymatters

@TheSpineView

#Performance #QuotsyDec19 @TK-421

That‘s cold, Bill. Cold. #ShakespeareanInsults #Shakespeare

“Lie not, to say mine eyes are murders. Scratch thee but with a pin and there remains some scar of it. Lean upon a rush, the cicatrice and capable impressure thy palm some moment keeps. And now mine eyes, which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not. Nor I am sure there is no force in eyes that can do hurt.”
—Phoebe

Just added a bunch of Shakespearean comedies to #serialreader including As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, and more. Find them all, plus other comedies by Shakespeare already in the app, in the new collection here: https://www.serialreader.org/collection/5d3dad5ca5468404af76dc03/

Our first Shakespeare in the Park performance of the summer: As You Like It! Pretty nice evening, and hopefully it'll cool off even more once the sun goes down.

First trip to a bookstore with both of my kiddos was a success! That‘s an important event for us! 📚

I love this one

We just closed the Young Acting Company's production of this show. It was an original edit done by our director and it was amazing. These kids were able to do Shakespeare better than some adults I have seen. I am so proud of them all for the work they did to get here. Also, we actually had the little ones on stage as goats. I never want to see this done without that again. It was brilliant and one of my favorite scenes.

Random stacks of Books #4 My Shakespeare pile. 😂

Here we go, Oregon Shakespeare Festival! Kicking off with #AsYouLikeIt!

I love the punning and word-play in the play! #lame #quotsyfeb19 @TK-421

#intelligent #Quotsy #QuotsyJan19 #LitsyQuoteChallenge

#wrath #quotsyjan19 @TK-421

“Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say
'This is no flattery: these are counsellors
That feelingly persuade me what I am.'”

- a great Shakespeare quote to have running through your head while walking your dog in the bitter cold

#theater #quotsynov18 @TK-421

I don't mind telling you, Prescot (near Liverpool) was an absolute dump when I was growing up here in the 80s and 90s. Mass unemployment and a huge derelict factory in the 80s, and all the pubs were scruffy and full of Carling-fuelled scallies when I started drinking in the 90s. Now they're building a Shakespeare theatre here and there's a Shakespeare themed micropub called the Bard. Exciting times.

Thanks for the awesome stickers Helen @squirrelbrain

Really cool! #jbuk

♠️My apologies on the delay in posting who won the Shakespeare Comedy mug- there were quite a few entries to tally! The winner of this fine piece of china and tea accompaniments is..... @TheBookHippie !!!!
(Email me at purple_violets01 at yahoo dot com)

Congrats! I‘ve been having so much fun and learning from the great discussions being had on #TheShakespeareReadAlong threads.

I love the name Rosalind! #FavCharacterName 💜
#ReadingResolutions 💐📖

#BookNerd 📚💙

Since starting the #shakespearereadalong, these Folger Library editions have become my favourite. #yellowedpages #oldcoolbooks @Linsy

Although I wasn't a fan of the audio quality compared to other BBC productions, Helena Bonham Carter as Rosalind was still a joy!

FINALLY finished As You Like It for the #Shakespearereadalong and LOVED it. So sweet and funny with awesome female characters and clever wordplay. Definitely one of my favorite Shakespeare plays (top 3 for sure). Not on to Othello!

I may have spent the last couple of days playing Sims and making characters based on As You Like It... 🙈😂 Meet Ros, Celia, and Orlando Frederick! The kids‘ teddy bears are named Oliver and Jaques. Ros is a rock star who co-owns the town spa, and her husband cheated on her and was kicked out of the house. 😎

The Arkangel audio production was fantastic, particularly the music, and now I‘m going to celebrate Shakespeare‘s sort-of birthday by watching this awesome adaptation directed by Kenneth Branagh and set in feudal Japan.

Fans of the play should check this out if they haven‘t.

Playing catch up today before beginning Othello. Act III was my favorite so far—the wordplay was phenomenal. Shakespeare was such a trippy dude, and I‘ll never understand his predilection for using cross-dressing to forward a plot 😂

Also: “The oath of a lover is no stronger than the word of a tapster; they are both the confirmer of false reckonings.”

#Shakespearereadalong

Reading the last of my background info and manga today so I‘ll be ready to start Othello tomorrow! There are some interesting observations here, and they address Rosalind‘s choice of the name Ganymede.
#ShakespeareReadalong

Woo hoo a combined answer to today's photo challenges - #stage and #somethingfunny
#hopintospring by @vkois88 and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#readingresolutions by @Jess7

“And this our life exempt from public haunt
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
I would not change it.”

I wanted something light and Springy for my audio commute today so I went with one of Shakespeare‘s super lightweight plays, which @batsy perfectly described as “beach read Shakespeare”.

I enjoyed this little romp in the woods despite the problematic gender politics. You get the sense that all's well that ends well = order restored, i.e. women back in their appointed place. But there was that silly, satirical tone throughout that I relished. It's like a "beach read" Shakespeare; the pages just flew by. The dynamic between Rosalind & Celia was fab. I love me a moody, do-nothing philosopher, so I do have a soft spot for Jaques ?

🎭Act 5 and the conclusion of As You Like It🎭

📜Act 4 had a snake and lion. Act 5 brings us Hymen, the god of marriage, to bless the union of the four couples who were brought together in a varied series of events that deviated from normal courtship. The Duke Senior is restored. And I have the song lyric “with a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonny-no” stuck in my head.

#ShakespeareReadAlong folks- your thoughts on Act 5 or the play in entirety?