About ShakespeareShakespeareThe Marriage of True Minds: A Guide to Sonnet 116- June 26, 2008 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an...http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/06/26/the-marriage-of-true-minds-a-guide-to-sonnet-116... Original Globe Performances- June 26, 2008 Renaissance records of Shakespeare's plays in performance are exceedingly scarce. However, those few contemporary accounts that have survived provide brief yet invaluable information about a handful of Shakespeare's dramas. They...http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/06/26/original-globe-performances-3.htm Shakespeare by the Numbers: the Quiz- June 18, 2008 How many witches appear in Macbeth How many sonnets did Shakespeare write Take our quiz and see how well you know the important numbers in Shakespeare's life and work. Detailed...http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/06/18/shakespeare-by-the-numbers-the-quiz-7.htm Shakespeare on Lawyers and the Law- June 13, 2008 Why, may not that be the skull of a lawyer Where be his quiddities now, his quillities, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks Why does he suffer this mad...http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/06/13/shakespeare-on-lawyers-and-the-law-6.htm Quote of the Week: Where the bee sucks...- June 8, 2008 Where the bee sucks, there suck I In a cowslips bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bats back I do fly After summer merrily: Merrily, merrily...http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/06/08/quote-of-the-week-where-the-bee-sucks-5.htm Opening Lines: the Quiz- June 4, 2008 "If music be the food of love, play on..." As you probably guessed, the famous line above opens Shakespeare's comedy "Twelfth Night." But which Shakespearean drama opens with the line, "I...http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/06/04/opening-lines-the-quiz-2.htm Worst Diseases in Shakespeare's London- June 1, 2008 From a disease standpoint, Shakespeare was living in arguably the worst place and time in history. Shakespeares overcrowded, rat infested, sexually promiscuous London, with raw sewage flowing in the Thames,...http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2008/06/01/worst-diseases-in-shakespeares-london-7.htm |