William Shakespeare reduced the ages of man to a mere seven, in the play “As You Like It“. In this video, actor Benedict Cumberbatch presents that argument: In contrast, the maker of the video below went for a less literarily — but more mathematically — classical approach to age, assigning a different age for each year […]
Tag: Shakespeare
In pursuit of Shakespeare’s pursuing bear
Tom Levenson pursues the parlous question of Shakespeare’s exiting bear. Levenson writes about the book Verdi’s Shakespeare, by Garry Wills: There, in the first chapter, Wills made mention of Winter’s Tale, and its alpha and omega of stage directions: “Exit, pursued by bear.” … Wills tells me — laconically, first, in the body of his text, writing […]
MacBeth and the flying Christmas tree
Thirty-two model-rocket engines power a Christmas tree. (Thanks to BoingBoing for bringing this to our attention.) It’s evocative, as so many things are, of MacBeth’s words in act 5, scene 5 of the Shakespeare play: ‘Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane:’ and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out! […]