New York Shakespeare

Have you reviewed New York Shakespeare's annual Year in Review article , released on Valentine's Day, rounding up all the #shakespeare activity taking place in #newyork in the #year2023 ? . Check out the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ewwREn8p Also included are our Fourth Annual Awards, with awards in the following categories: Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Classes, Workshops & Education The Show Must Go On Events & Festivals Adaptations & Modernizations Podcasts & Audio Books Artificial Intelligence Lifetime Achievement Performance: Drama Performance: Comedy Performer Click into the blog for the full list of winners, to links to numerous articles and videos, to connect with us on social media, and much more!

The #newyorkshakespeare #instagramlive #interview program is back with our latest live episode, this coming Tuesday night 10/22 at 9:30pm EST! . We’ll be chatting with a number of standouts of #bard based happenings in #newyorkcity this Fall season, as we close in on #halloween ! . Guests include: . @hamletisntdead @thecurtainorg . And more to be announced soon! . Join us live on the @newyorkshakespeare @instagram channel this coming Tuesday night 10/22 at 9:30pm, and add your comments and questions to the live discussion! . https://lnkd.in/dJa5MTp . #nyc #podcast #stage #screen #theater #theatre #film #acting #performance #livestream #newyork #shakespeare

When we think about leaders in Medieval times, it's tempting to focus on warriors and battles and the fight to be king. Beyond the battlefield, leadership was practiced in different and powerful ways. Author Rebecca Batley joins my podcast to share the story of a woman who left her mark: Anne Neville. The podcast is available everywhere you like to listen. Or check us out on YouTube. https://bit.ly/RRRepisodes https://bit.ly/youtubeRRR #herstory #womeninhistory #beyondthebattlefield #historypodcast #historyshowsuswhatspossible

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The #newyorkshakespeare #instagramlive #interview program is back with our latest live episode, this coming Tuesday night 10/22 at 9:30pm EST! . We’ll be chatting with a number of standouts of #bard based happenings in #newyorkcity this Fall season, as we close in on #halloween ! . Guests include: . @hamletisntdead @thecurtainorg . And more to be announced soon! . Join us live on the @newyorkshakespeare @instagram channel this coming Tuesday night 10/22 at 9:30pm, and add your comments and questions to the live discussion! . https://lnkd.in/dJa5MTp . #nyc #podcast #stage #screen #theater #theatre #film #acting #performance #livestream #newyork #shakespeare

“All (Shakespeare’s) comic devices and wordplay in 90 minutes. Plus, live music. Grand!” - Theater Pizzazz ⁠ Join us for a unique and unforgettable take on a beloved classic.⁠ 🎟️ www.axiscompany.org ⁠

Join me online on October 15 with Smithsonian Associates to explore the lives and adventures of these six extraordinary women—who just happened to marry the same guy. https://bit.ly/6womenhenry #herstory #history #historyshowsuswhatspossible

HAMLET AS PRODIGAL (OEDIPAL SPELLED BADLY?) OEDIPAL [1]: Freud claimed that men want to kill their fathers, like Oedipus, whose father (Laius) was in fact a jerk. Laius made bad karma, abandoning his son to die.[2] - Oedipus doesn't know he was saved and adopted, so he thinks the prophecy means he will kill his adoptive father and marry his adoptive mother. He doesn't want that, so he flees. - While fleeing, his biological father is cruel to him on the road, and Oedipus kills him, not knowing it is his father. - Having suffered trauma as a child, Oedipus may be lashing out in revenge at a stranger who happens to be his father. All fathers die, most before their sons. But the tale is also a metaphor for how children need to establish their own identities as distinct from their parents (though some sons may "want a girl / just like the girl / that married dear old Dad," as the song says.[3]) We can follow Freud and read Hamlet as Oedipal. PRODIGAL? [4] "Prodigal" is a word Laertes and Polonius both use to warn Ophelia about being too free with Hamlet. “Prodigal" alludes to a Bible tale that may apply as well (or better) to Laertes and Polonius as to Ophelia. In stark contrast to Freud's Oedipus, the prodigal son finds a different way to establish his identity: 1. He asks his father for his share of his inheritance, travels away [5], and wastes it. 2. He realizes that he ruined his life, so, filled with regret, he goes back home and begs his father for mercy, asking to be treated as a slave. IF WE THINK HAMLET IS MOSTLY ABOUT REVENGE, Freud's reading of the Oedipus tale may be more attractive. IF WE SPOT MOMENTS OF REGRET AND REPENTANCE IN THE PLAY, the prodigal son tale is a very different lens through which to view the play. But it's not a binary. Why abandon either option? It is a play about both: revenge, yes, but also regret and repentance. 'Prodigal' sort of rhymes with 'Oedipal': if you swap the R and G in Prodigal for an E, you can spell 'Oedipal.' So 'Prodigal' is 'Oedipal' spelled badly. 😜🤣 #Hamlet #Shakespeare #Oedipus #Freud #Greekmyth #Bible #literature #drama #theater #psychoanalysis #prodigal #ideas #lens #interpretation

So excited to be speaking about Courting the Virgin Queen! I love meeting readers and history lovers! Do you have questions? Send them in! I’m going to start sharing some of the great questions I’m getting about Elizabeth I and her royal romances. This week: Was the English parliament and privy council really involved in the queen’s marriage? Were the political men around her really telling her to get married and have children? Queen Elizabeth I was seen as a vehicle rather than as a source of power. The power of history is that it shows us women like Elizabeth who chose to write her story her way. #historyshowsuswhatspossible #herstory #herway

Congratulations to our very own Executive Director Patrick Willingham on being named one of the 2024 Arts & Culture Power 100 leaders! 🎉 https://lnkd.in/eaCxaDbU