RIP Lynn Redgrave

Actress Lynn Redgrave has died of breast cancer at 67.

In doing some research I realized that we've spoken of Lynn Redgrave here on Geek previously.  Allow me to quote from my April 2009 article:

On the day his mother died, the celebrated actor Sir Michael Redgrave
had a matinee and an evening performance to give as Hamlet. Backstage at
the theater, he sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. Then he went out front.
"And he did two of the greatest Hamlets he ever played."

Yes I realize that Lynn is not in that, it's because she wrote it.  Later in life she wrote several plays about her parents and their attachment to the theatre, Shakespeare in particular, including Shakespeare for My Father, and Rachel and Juliet.  The latter is the subject of my post from one year ago.

I think it's wonderful that her IMDB page lists one of her Shakespeare credits as "ABC Afterschool Specials (Various Characters)".  This was in 1973, and also starred John Gielgud.  I would have been 4.  I don't think I was into Shakespeare quite yet.

I'm unfamiliar with her theatrical work.  Anybody else have stories to share? Any productions she was particularly well known for?

Cute Overload

Danger, this article from Cute Overload is titled "Cover Your Ears, Shakespeare" for a reason.   Many bad (or, depending on your taste, awesome) puns follow, especially in the comments.

Shakespeare on Baseball

Not really much of substance in this article about Shakespeare baseball references, since obviously the man died a few hundred years before the game was invented.  But, much like bringing up "Thou base footballer!" in King Lear, you can go scraping the text for things that *sound* like baseball.  Actually I'm a little surprised by just how many they found.  Catch a fly?  Stealing bases, errors, foul and fair balls ...  I once heard about Klingon Camp where they play the entire game in Dr. Okrand's made up language.  Perhaps we could have Shakespeare camp and play the game entirely using misappropriated Bardisms?

(*) I remember an episode of the television show Frazier where brothers Frazier and Niles Crane had staged a theatrical performance.  After the apparent success of the opening, Niles can be seen saying to his brother, "We're a hit, a palpable hit!"  That one seems to come up often (and obviously in the article above, you see).