"Brush Up Your Shakespeare"

   I don’t blog very often. You’ve come to expect that. I no longer feel the need to apologize about it. I am also taking a brief hiatus from the projects series, because I want to. And by golly, this is my blog; I’ll do what I want. And I want to tell you something interesting. Actually a few interesting things that I learned in Shakespeare class. (Don’t ask what Shakespeare class is, it will ruin the effect).



   There is a statue of Shakespeare’s Juliet in the Capulet house in Vienna. (There really were Montegues and Capulets, just no Romeo or Juliet). So it is a bronze-y gold, but now green statue. Except for one part. 200 years of picture taking guys have left poor Juliet’s left bosom shiny shiny gold.


   Here’s an older one. In Henry the Fifth Shakespeare killed his most popular character, a drunken knight named Falstaff, in a super depressing offstage scene only described to the audience. Everyone was shocked. His patron at the time was Queen Elizabeth the First. When her messenger dropped off Shakespeare’s next payment there was a note (mostly implied, nothing is proven) saying that her majesty the queen would like to see more of Falstaff. His next play was The Merry Wives of Winsor, starring nothing but the antics of the jovial Falstaff.


    I am considering starting a sort of video blog that gives information of boring/confusing topics that most people have trouble learning about, (like Shakespeare plays, biology, or Roman history). I might start this summer. Who knows. What do you think?


In 1603, Shakespeare's company became the official player for King James I and renamed themselves The King's Men.