The attractive appearance of the blackbird was not overlooked by Shakespeare, who has mentioned him in one of his songs: "The ouzel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill." *Midsummer Night's Dream*, III.i. *The Ornithology of Shakespeare* (1871). 139.

Eurasian Blackbird Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

A singing male Eurasian Blackbird is a study in elegance: a glossy black bird with a vibrant yellow bill and eyering delivering a leisurely, beautiful song from a high perch. The female, which also…

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"At first, I refused to use its services. But then the most basic of its services that are available now — its use as a super-powerful search engine, that responds to and answers queries in everyday language — was too tempting to resist."

From Shakespeare to AI: A Midsummer Night's Nightmare?

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"Anthony Mackie has spent much of the past decade as one of Marvel’s most recognizable faces. After years playing Sam Wilson, he now carries the shield as Captain America,... After years in a superhero suit, he’s ready to show audiences a very different kind of power struggle."

Captain America Takes on Shakespeare: 'Avengers: Doomsday' Star Anthony Mackie Returns to Broadway as Macbeth

Anthony Mackie has spent much of the past decade as one of Marvel's most recognizable faces. After years playing Sam Wilson, he now carries the shield as

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Life with the Internet is always surprising. The first pioneer of stylometrics and the first to apply it to the Shakespeare Authorship Question... in 1887.

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#OTD 1841 Thomas Corwin Mendenhall b (d 22 Mar 1924) He was father of “author profiling”, the use of word frequency distributions to identify individual writer styles. He kicked off the Shakespeare authorship question by proposing Sir Francis Bacon and Kit Marlow as the 'true authors.

'The word worm occurs again in the enumeration by the witches in "Macbeth," of "the ingredients of our cauldron." But here the "blind worm's sting" is obviously intended to apply to the Anguis fragilis, [a legless lizard]..." *Insects Mentioned in Shakespeare's Plays* (1838).

"The legendary playwright has penned dramatic productions with some of the most popular monikers of all time, including Jessica and Olivia. His works are a goldmine of inspiration, —you don't have to give your child a very obvious Shakespearian name like Hamlet or Macbeth unless you want to!"

101 Shakespeare-Inspired Baby Names That Bring the Drama and Literary Flair

If you want a baby name inspired by a classic Shakespearean character, look no further.

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'“A few hours before the show starts, we slowly get some alcohol into one person,” Titchnell said. “Everybody else who is in the show is stone cold sober, so it is just the one person who is going to wreak some havoc wherever their heart takes them, but they do have an actual role within the show.”'

Friday’s production of Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: “Macbeth” to bring chaos and humor to the stage

William Shakespeare’s works have long been reenacted on stage, but a new interpretation features a twist: one intoxicated actor amongst a sober cast.  The Sh!t-faced Shakespeare traveling tour will br...

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"Fontainebleau featured a massive pleasure garden, with a carved marble fountain, which would serve as portal to the magical world that had been prepared for the guests."

Shakespeare and Catherine de Medici's Famous 1564 Carnival at Fontainebleau.

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[Video, 2:01] "Monique Holt explains how she translates Shakespeare into ASL."

Dr. Berto/Rally Lamb@bertoinpublic.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is truly so super cool. Definitely the coolest, most poetic thing I’ll see today. www.pbs.org/video/transl...

"Shakespeare references a cat's nine lives in *Romeo and Juliet.*"

Why do cats have '9 lives'? Historians trace back the myth

Historians trace back the age-old myth of cats having nine lives.

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It's Tudor Trivia Tuesday!!!

Printing Presses, Wigs, Drowning Admirals and more.

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"After supper a masque Juno and Hymenaeus was performed in the hall at Whitehall Palace by courtiers..." This is the merest — and most insupportable — of conjectures. The play we know as Shakespeare's *The Tempest* was played at her wedding.

Susan de Vere, Countess of Montgomery

English noblewoman (1587-1629)

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"If *1599* were packaged as fiction, Shapiro’s recourse to supposition would be normal. But in a nonfiction work, it starts to feel irresponsible. So, too, with Jonathan Bate’s *Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare*,..." www.ft.com/content/a05d...

[Video, 1:04] "Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Godwin announces collaboration with world-renowned Jim Henson's Creature Shop on puppets for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. * [It will play] DEC 4, 2026–JAN 10, 2027 at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Hall in Washington, D.C."

Jim Henson's Creature Shop Announcement | A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

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"Aside from Bob and Doug's aforementioned plot function as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, "Strange Brew" gradually departs from "Hamlet" and turns into a blitzed Abbott & Costello movie. Hamlet triumphs, the Claudii die, and Rosencrantz/Bob saves the day by guzzling an entire vat of beer..."

This Rick Moranis Cult Classic Comedy Was Accidentally Based On A Shakespeare Play - SlashFilm

Strange Brew, the cult classic comedy starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, is partly based on a famous William Shakespeare play. Well, sort of.

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Shakespeare certainly does not lack for feedback.

Spooky Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is the Shakespeare analysis we all need...

Nurse: A man, young lady—lady, such a man As all the world—why, he’s a man of wax. Lady Capulet: Verona’s summer hath not such a flower. Nurse: Nay, he’s a flower, in faith, a very flower. Lady Capulet: What say you? Can you love the gentleman? *Romeo and Juliet*, I.iii.

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Laura Ingraham, as her lips are about to explode live on air, criticizes Talarico for looking like "something that came out of a wax museum"

Just in case this might be a match for somebody...

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Shakespeare's Globe has a vacancy for a Library and Archive co-ordinator (permanent/part-time) - details on the recordkeeping careers hub here recordkeeping-careers.org/job/library-...

Gadshill:... wee haue the receyte of Ferneseede, wee walke inuisible. Chamberlaine: Nay by my fayth, I thinke you are more beholding to the night then to Ferneseed, for your walking inuisible.

Fern seed and invisibility

‘Faerie spell’, by Alan Lee “We have the receipt of fern seed: we walk invisible” (Shakespeare, Henry IV Part I, Act 2, scene 1) It is widely believed that the seed of ferns has magical…

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It's Tudor Trivia Tuesday!!!

Billiards, Breeches, Square-Toed Shoes, and more.

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[Video, 2:36] I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Richard III, I.i.

“Now is the winter of our discontent” speech - Richard III (1995)

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"Henry fans — and England was full of them — were, it seems, much like our Trekies."

Dressing Shakespeare in the 16th Century: Another Mystery Solved.

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Calibán: No temas; la isla está llena de ruidos, sonidos y dulces melodías que deleitan y no hacen daño. La Tempestad, de Shakespeare, 1611. Ilustrado por Arthur Rackham. Pluma, tinta y acuarela, 1926.

"*10 Things I Hate About You* has reached sacred status in the 27 years since it was first released and its novel use of *The Taming of the Shrew* as inspiration certainly fired up the Shakespeare-to-rom-com pipeline."

6 of the Best Rom-Coms That Borrow From Shakespeare

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"The famous observation by William Shakespeare that the world is a stage and its inhabitants merely players remains a foundational element of literary history." That Shakespeare was so aware of French lit that he translated this quote from Pierre Ronsard is just part of the show.

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and the Enduring Philosophy of Life as Performance

Exploring the historical context of William Shakespeare’s 'Seven Ages of Man' speech and how the Globe Theatre’s architecture reinforced the playwright's metaphor of life as a series of distinct, evol...

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The earliest citation for the phrase would seem to be Chaucer's *Troilus and Cressida*, "Lat nat this wrechched wo thyn herte gnawe, But manly set the world on sexe and seuene” which Shakespeare had read. At first in meant "on a throw of the dice". By Sh.'s time it meant a state of confusion.

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Jake-Martin Thomas@jakemartinoftom.bsky.social · last mo.

It's easy to dismiss young people for being unread couths, but when they say "six-seven" they are in fact referencing lesser known Shakespearean drama (Richard II, act 2, scene 2).

Of course, without the lawyers on *our* side democracy would already be gone.

Scott Akenhead@scottakenhead.bsky.social · last mo.

protected by $1M worth of unscrupulous lawyers. "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" – William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s...