The Beatles perform a bit of Shakespeare

And a good time they have, too, complete with audience "heckling".



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From the British Museum: On this day in 1611, Shakespeare's The Tempest was first performed.

Title page of the First Folio

Christopher Plummer as "Prospero" in The Tempest (2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival)

Photo credit here.

Helen Mirren in Julie Taymor's 2010 film

John Cassavettes (with Susan Sarandon as Ariel) in 1982's loose adaptation by Paul Mazursky. Image via

John Gielgud in Peter Greenaway's quirky Prospero's Books (1991)

Random

❧ Shakespeare's "Yo Momma" joke.

❧ Flowers and vegetables! Very pretty:

❧ The Basics of Herbs. (with a helpful illustrated chart)

❧ The Open Goldberg Variations. A kickstarter-funded, open-sourced recording of Bach's masterpiece, downloadable for free. This is a newly-released recording by Kimiko Ishizaka, performed on a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial piano in Berlin.

❧ Cary Grant and his Sealyham Terrier, just because:

Shakespeare suzuki method

Brian Cox teaches the Hamlet soliloquy to a toddler. Via Even Cleveland.

The Birds of Shakespeare

Found here (via LuxLotus).

“Light thickens, and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood.”
[Macbeth – III, 2]

And you have to try this Crow Haiku Generator.