Playwright In Spirit Gifts

'The business school production of Hamlet: Act V, Scene IV...'

Shepherd and eurydice

"It's amazing, Darlin', just how fast the kids grow up!"

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

Herman Mankiewicz

"Aristophanes explains comedy"

Reading my Critics

If time travel was invented in 1600 in England. I'm a fan of the bard. Let's see if he wants to take a journey through time. Globe Theater. Sounds fun! Let's go to 2020. It's a nice round number. Zazzz! Poof! That's weird. How did they know he was coming? And why does he need to leave this place? Apparently you can't be here, William. The sign says "No Shakespeare in the park this summer."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

Honoré de Balzac

'Hamlet'

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

German Expressionist Breakfast

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

Shakespeare was bisexual

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

Theatre Masks and Butts

The ghosts of Christmas yet to come.

'How's everyone doing tonight - that is the question.'

"Same story every morning - 'Can you come and fix our windmill?'..."

Men: Hating chick flicks since 1623.

'There's no art to the mind's construction on Facebook, Macbeth.'

"It's about sex and revenge, except for a short chapter on the Continental Congress."

"Just when you're about to lose faith in humanity, you see Shakespeare in the Park."

'I asked Will if he wrote it. He said he wasn't sure.'

'It's some more story ideas from Francis Bacon.'

When Shakespeare gets up early, on the wrong side of the bed of a stranger, and in a clown suit... Later that same day, he will commence work on 'The Comedy of Errors.'"

"On New Year's Eve, Clement and I stayed up all night drinking. Tea, of course."

To read or not to read?

Shakespeare's Lost Play: The Taming of the Pooch.

Overshadowed by the Tony's: Broadway's Lesser Known Awards

"My God!! - Those actors must all be really old by now...!"

Shakespeare places his works in 'To Be' or 'Not To Be'.

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

Comedy and tragedy masks