"Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all; What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call; All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more." Sonnet 40, 1-4. #ShakespeareSunday

Is Karen Maine's Rosaline the screen adaptation that will finally get me back into blogging after an extended hiatus for most of this year? Yes, I believe it will be...

"Up and down, up and down, I will lead them up and down. I am feared in field and town. Goblin, lead them up and down." A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3.2.397-400 #ShakespeareSunday

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"The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns And push us from our stools." Macbeth, 3.4.94-98 #ShakespeareSunday

It's been a quiet year in terms of blogging for several reasons, but I'm planning to get back into regularly writing blogs in 2023. For now, here's something Christmassy I really enjoyed writing last year about Home Alone and King Lear. #rethinkingshax link.medium.com/xnMoDDudYvb

"I am a rascal; a scurvy railing knave: a very filthy rogue." Troilus and Cressida, 5.4.27-8 #ShakespeareSunday

"I have a venturous fairy that shall seek The squirrel’s hoard and fetch thee new nuts." A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4.1.36-7 #ShakespeareSunday

"Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries" A Midsummer Night's Dream, 3.1.172-3 #ShakespeareSunday

"Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle. He throws a thunderbolt. The Ghosts fall on their knees." Cymbeline, 5.4.94.1-2 #ShakespeareSunday

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!" King Lear, 3.2.1-3 #ShakespeareSunday

Rock Bottom is a genuinely funny, touching one-person show from Fresh Life Theatre Company @charlie_actor. You can see it in locations around the UK in the coming months before it heads to New York! Here's my 'Action is eloquence': (Re)thinking Shakespeare review from when I saw it back in 2021. medium.com/action-is-eloq…

"For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings." Sonnet 29, 13-14. #ShakespeareSunday

"[M]y crown is called content: A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy." 3 Henry VI, 3.1.64-75. #ShakespeareSunday

"This Martius is grown from man to dragon. He has wings; he’s more than a creeping thing." Coriolanus, 5.4.12-14 #ShakespeareSunday

"I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop" The Comedy of Errors, 1.2.33-34 #ShakespeareSunday

JACK CADE: "My father was a Mortimer—" DICK THE BUTCHER: [Aside] "He was an honest man, and a good bricklayer." 2 Henry VI, 4.2.35-37 #ShakespeareSunday

"I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part." 2 Henry VI, 4.10.29-30 #ShakespeareSunday

It's been a (very) long time since I last wrote a blog, but I enjoyed putting together my thoughts on the unexpected presence of Macbeth in Rematch - The Sporting Time Machine's immersive theatre production, Rumble in the Jungle: Rematch. Available to read at 'Action is eloquence': (Re)thinking Shakespeare. medium.com/action-is-eloq…

Is Home Alone an adaptation of King Lear? No. Did that stop me writing about the connections between the two? Also no. I hope you enjoy reading this blog as much as Kevin enjoys inflicting pain on Harry and Marv. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. medium.com/action-is-eloq…