Christopher Prentice

Here’s some very smart poetry about the happiest married couple in Shakespeare.

This is very clever.

Read it left to right in full, then each side independently.

Of course some basic knowledge of Macbeth is helpful... *SPOILER* She manipulates him to kill the current king so he can be king. He becomes king. Their actions haunt them. She dies. He dies.

Wanna see some Shakespeare that's not really Shakespeare? And hear the bonkers story of the creation of one of the greatest literary hoaxes in Western theatrical history? Joshua Fardon has the perfect thing for you! His "Vortigern: A True Story" is absolutely bananas - and hilarious. Come check out this live in-person reading tomorrow at 2 at Chicago Dramatists! (I'll be there to give my dour Irish Malone, the eminent Shakespeare scholar!)

Reservations: http://chicagodramatists.org/ (Josh swears it only takes 36 seconds to sign up! And it's FREE!)

We're live for The Winter's Tale! Join us for some bear!

Corona Cold Reads: 5th Anniversary (The Winter’s Tale)

What I get from this is: Meres was the forerunner of BuzzFeed, and if that's true, he’s definitely a Slytherin.

Questions over Shakespeare’s authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims New research suggests some 16th-century writers were confident Shakespeare was the pseudonym of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford