How about Shatner doing Julius Caesar?

Everybody loved that video of the Beatles doing Pyramus and Thisbe. How about William Shatner doing a pretty funky rendition of Marc Antony's "Friends, Romans, Countrymen..." speech? Halfway through it turns into a rap video. His take on "Let slip the dogs of war" is nothing compared to how his arch enemy General Chang did it in Star Trek VI.

Weird. It's from Free Enterprise, which I've never seen.

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John Keats

I like this article on "Enjoying La Belle Dame Sans Merci", by John Keats. It's here because of the nice reference to Shakespeare:

Keats praised Shakespeare's "negative capability". If I understand the passage correctly, he's referring to the lack of unambiguous messages in Shakespeare's works. Instead of preaching or moralizing, Shakespeare's works mirror life, and let the reader take away his or her own conclusions.

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Rhythm of the Sonnets

Hey, it turns out that people are indeed putting the sonnets to music. I am both pleased and disappointed to discover Rhythm of the Sonnets which puts 12 of them to music, but only offers Real Audio clips for download. So I have no idea if they're any good or not. If the author's listening, how about some MP3? If I can't put it on my iPod, I'm not listening.

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