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Wednesday Shakespeare: Anon, Good Nurse

Wednesday Shakespeare: Anon, Good Nurse

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Today I’m finishing up my Wednesday Shakespeare series in the same place I started it, with a character from Romeo and Juliet. It will always be my favorite tragedy, despite the fact that there are others that deal with far weightier issues. The idea of love and the lengths to which we’re willing to go to try to make it work, no matter what, will always tug at me. Does that really surprise any of you? I would think that’s a firm “no” at this point. The character of Juliet’s nurse is rather involved in her lady’s …

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Wednesday Shakespeare: The Soothsayer

Wednesday Shakespeare: The Soothsayer

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Since tomorrow is March 15th, otherwise known as the Ides of March, there was really only one direction that today’s post could go in. The Soothsayer in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar has a total of about nine lines, yet he is extremely important to one of the play’s central themes. Then again, is he really? We’ll get to that in just a few minutes. Let’s talk first about the origin of the concept of the Ides of March, which dates all the way back to the earliest Roman calendars. In 753 BC, March would have …

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Wednesday Shakespeare: A Modern Girl

Wednesday Shakespeare: A Modern Girl

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It can’t be denied that there are some powerful female characters in Shakespeare’s world to whom we might actually be able to relate. Let’s take Lady Macbeth for example. She’s that incredibly ambitious woman who we tend to admire because she’s able to get things done through the sheer force of her will alone. She’s also bitchy, controlling, and downright cruel, so while we may admire her type, it’s often best to stay as far away as possible. And then there’s Ophelia from Hamlet. She’s pure and …

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Monday Booktails: Get Buck in Here

Monday Booktails: Get Buck in Here

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In last week’s Monday Booktails post we talked about the Experimental Cocktail Club written by Olivier Bon, Pierre-Charles Cros, Romée de Goriainoff, and Xavier Padovani, four longtime friends who are also the owners of a number of bars of the same name. Today’s cocktail is from the Experimental Cocktail Club in the Chinatown district of London, the fourth bar that this group opened and their first venture outside of Paris. As I said last week, this is an absolutely gorgeous book about cocktails that is …

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Wednesday Shakespeare: Enter Three Witches

Wednesday Shakespeare: Enter Three Witches

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Ahh, who knows where I’m going with this?? Yes, yes you are correct! Today’s post is about the Witches of Macbeth, the three original mean girls and powerful inspiration to the likes of Regina George, Blair Waldorf, Cirsei Lannister, and all those major bi-atches we love to hate. Let’s face it, despite some obvious differences in hair and facial waxing priorities, they all take perverse delight in goading people into doing things that ultimately have some pretty disastrous results. And they do it in …

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