Topic: William Shakespeare

Brains and beauty on show at naked readings

Sit back and enjoy readings of Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde or Henrik Ibsen, sip a glass of wine -- oh, and gaze upon the readers themselves: they're naked.That combination of delights is on offer once a month in New York thanks to the ...
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All About Authors

One of the best of all card games is called "Authors." It can be played with special cards, marked with the pictures of great writers such as Shakespeare and Dickens; or it can be played with regular playing cards. A simpler form ...

Hamlet Review

Okay, before you get all freaked out about memorizing soliloquies and parsing Elizabethan English: Hamlet is just a simple, point-and-click puzzle game with no English Lit. Indeed the connection to Shakespeare's Hamlet is pretty bizarre and attenuated: the main character goes back ...
British antiques dealer pleads innocent in theft of Shakespeare first edition A British antiques dealer has pleaded not guilty to stealing a rare first edition of the works of William Shakespeare.Raymond Scott appeared Friday in a court in Newcastle in northeastern England.The ...

DIY Batcave-themed hidden entrance

The original TV series of Batman may have over-err'd on the side of tights, but it had a few fantastic gimmicks. This Batman-themed hidden entrance was actually for a school homecoming dance, and was the work of Low Voltage's Jimmy; he rigged ...

Triumph

triumph, also called trump, 16th-century card game ancestral to whist. In the English game (referred to by William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra), each player received 12 cards, 4 went facedown as a widow, and the topmost of them was turned over ...