Celia: Here comes Monsieur Le Beau.
Rosalind: With his mouth full of news.
Celia: Which he will put on us as pigeons feed their young.
Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed.
From As You Like It.

Kenneth Branagh has a new Shakespeare film coming out. It looks as if Branagh is directing, but not acting, in this movie version of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. And as you can see in the trailer, the Forest of Arden has been moved to Japan?

Encyclopedia Kevinannica on Shakespeare for kids: “I believe that those readers eighteen years and younger would be betters served by reading Shakespeare in a modern language version. Go ahead and pick up your stones to throw at me.”

In The Guardian: “Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare was first published 200 years ago and has never been out of print. Marina Warner applauds a children’s classic created out of madness and matricide.”

Finally, Eldest Daughter will be spending her summer in Winedale/RoundTop, Texas. She’ll be an actor/student in this program, sponsored by UT-Austin, and at the end of the summer they all get to go to England! The plays for this year are A Comedy of Errors, Richard II, and Measure for Measure. You’re invited out to the barn theater at Winedale at the end of July/beginning of August to see this year’s production of all three plays.