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50+ Music"All that glitters is not gold" is an #aphorism stating that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. While early expressions of the idea are known from at least the 12th–13th century, the current saying is derived from a 16th-century line by #WilliamShakespeare, "All that #glisters is not gold" and, firstly, from the proverbs written by #JohnFlorio on his #SecondFruits (1591).
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All the Gold In California
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Wisdom in SpaceLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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Amy Beach, Joseph Middleton, William Shakespeare & Carolyn Sampson:
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John Griogair BellQueer Pregnancy in Shakespeare’s Plays
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WIST QuotationsA quotation from William Shakespeare
RICHARD: Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead;And I would have it suddenly performed.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard III, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 20ff (4.2.20-21) (1592)
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Panorama of the MountainsMovie Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor (1980)
Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Release Date: January 1, 1980
Director: Jack Manning
Production Company: Shakespeare Society of America
Main Cast:
- Gloria Grahame – Mistress Page
- Leon Charles – Sir John Falstaff
- Valerie Seelie-Snyder – Mistress Ford
- Dixie Tymitz – Mistress Quickly
- Joel Asher – Dr. Caius
- Phillip Persons – Justice Shallow
- Eugene Brezany – Slender
- Richard Cordery – Sir Hugh Evans
- Lee Fishel – Pistol
- Lanny Broyles – Bardolph
- Paul Aron Scott – Nym
- Lisa Barnes – Anne Page
- Addison Randall – Fenton
- Lucinda Dooling – Robin
Synopsis (via Letterboxd):
Sir John Falstaff in love? Chaos must inevitably follow.
My Thoughts:
With some Shakespeare plays – especially the comedies – I appreciate them more after seeing a performance. But in this case I think I chose the wrong performance, or maybe it’s just not that good. This version is filmed on a stage in Los Angeles (without an audience) that is said to resemble the Globe Theatre (it doesn’t). The whole thing is cheap and slapdash. And yet it’s introduced by John Houseman and stars Hollywood veteran Gloria Grahame, so it’s not like it’s a community theater production. Anyhow, there are other adaptations of The Merry Wives of Windsor out there, so I chose poorly.
All I know is that the next Shakespeare movie I will be watching is directed by Orson Welles, so I expect it to be good!
Rating: **
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Liam O'Mara IV, PhDPlaywright & poet #WilliamShakespeare was baptized on #ThisDayInHistory in 1564 in his birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. We do not know his birth date. The Bard remains the most influential author in English and a young Liam was fascinated with his oeuvre.
Book Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Publication Info: New York : Washington Square Press, 2004. [written circa 1597]
Summary/Review:
Sir John Falstaff is back, this time thrust into the center of madcap comedy and romance. Seeking money as always, he sends identical notes attempting to woo married women, Alice Ford and Margaret Page. They catch on to his Falstaff’s plan and conspire to go along with meeting him in order to play trick on him. Unaware of the plotting, Frank Ford becomes exceedingly jealous of his wife and goes about in disguise. And while all of this happening, three men court the Page’s daughter Anne but she only desires one of them, a gentleman named Fenton.
This is one of three plays featuring Falstaff, but scholars are uncertain whether this play was written before or after Henry IV, part 2. I haven’t read that one yet, but of the two I’ve read, I can’t say that I particularly like Falstaff. I mean, I know he’s rogue, but he’s not even a funny one. And the comic hijinks of this play don’t feel up to Shakespeare’s best. The legend is that he wrote it quickly on the request of Queen Elizabeth to create a play about Falstaff in love, and it feels like a rush job.
It’s still better than The Two Gentlemen of Verona, but otherwise it doesn’t rank highly in the Bard’s oeuvre for me.
Rating: **1/2
I’m reading every Shakespeare play, one per month, in chronological order. Here’s my progress thus far:
The GuardianAdjoa Andoh on Shakespeare, Bridgerton and DEI: ‘I don’t have to be the only one in the room’
Acclaimed stage and screen actor has taken part in Washington DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library residency program during a troubling time for the Capitol
Addressing an audience at the [Folger Shakespeare Library][1] in Washington, Adjoa Andoh acknowledged that some of h...
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