The Shakespeare Newsletter

05/27/2026

4 stars of 5.
Less story and therefore less action than in the other Bad Kitty books I have read, but Nick Bruel does a good job of explaining the American elections system.

05/27/2026

05/27/2026

CD 1 is my afternoon work music.

05/27/2026

Morning work music.

05/27/2026

FOUND ANOTHER SHAKESPEARE!
A page from No Fear HAMLET.

05/20/2026

I am editing an anthology and trying to help one of my authors find some information that extensive internet searches by both of us have failed to locate.

Do you have the BBC audio CDs of Kenneth Branagh's 1992 Hamlet? If so, please check one of the discs and post the RC number here. It will be three digits.

Please note, the audio cassettes have a different RC number and CDs from other parts of the world have a different numbering system. Only the UK CDs have the number needed. Thanks.
- Michael P. Jensen

05/16/2026

FOUND ANOTHER SHAKESPEARE!
George Herriman, BARON BEAN, 7 May 1918. Untangling that last word balloon, "Play on" is a famous line from TWELFTH NIGHT. "Lay on, Macduff" is from MACBETH. Mr. Herriman is clearly paraphrasing the line from Mac but he does it with one of the best known lines from TN.

05/03/2026

FOUND ANOTHER SHAKESPEARE!
The frontispiece from Langston Hughes's SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM.

05/02/2026

FOUND ANOTHER SHAKESPEARE!
George Herriman, BARON BEAN, 19 April 1918. "Honest gentleman" may be found in R&J, but this may be a coincidence. On the other hand, Herriman used a Shakespearean line the very next day and again two days later. He did sometimes clump them in this way.

04/30/2026

FOUND ANOTHER SHAKESPEARE!
This is a review of the 1929 film version of THE TAMING OF THE SHEW from PUNCH, 27 November 1929. The review will be of interest to Shakespeare film scholars and the illustrations of interest for those who like cartooning. The first illustration is a visual review of the film's lack to faithfulness to the play and the second an example of that lack of faithfulness.