“And it is very much lamented, Brutus, / That you have no such mirrors as will turn / Your hidden worthiness into your eye” Cassius, 1.2.61-63 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Caro Zeller, Julius Caesar, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2025, by Jenny Graham

📚 The #sdssbookofthemonth : The Waiting Game by Nicola Clark! 📚 For a full description of the book or to suggest a book for next month, go to bit.ly/bookofthemonthlist Happy reading! #BookRecommendations #historybuff

“That wench is stark mad or wonderful forward.” Tranio, The Taming of the Shrew, 1.1.70 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Matt Pfeiffer as Tranio, The Taming of the Shrew, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, 2007, photo by Lee A Butz

On October 3rd, 2026, in "The Kingdom of Naples versus Prospero," the jury of “Neapolitans” found Prospero not guilty of piracy and false imprisonment. Bravo to the cast for a wonderful production.

“Upon your sword / Sit laurel victory, and smooth success / Be strew’d before your feet!” Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.3.99-101 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo credit: Kathryn Tkel as Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2025

“Is’t night’s predominance, or the day’s shame, / That darkness does the face of earth entomb, / When living light should kiss it?” Ross, Macbeth, 2.4.8-10 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Angela Fennell, Macbeth, Temple University, 2014, by Luis Fernando Rodriguez

⚖️🔮Join us for The Kingdom of Naples versus Prospero: A Mock Trial & Talkback! 🔮⚖️ Get ready to dive into a deconstruction of The Tempest by means of the adversary system of justice. October 3, 3:00 - 4:30 PM, Mission Valley Library, free admission, bit.ly/naplesvsprospero

“They are all but stomachs, and we all but food: / They eat us hungerly, and when they are full / They belch us.” Emilia, Othello, 3.4.105-7 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Stephanie Holladay Earl and Bridget Rue, Othello, American Shakespeare Center, 2014

📚 The #sdssbookofthemonth: Tyrant by Stephen Greenblatt! 📚 For a full description or to suggest a book for next month, go to bit.ly/bookofthemonthlist Happy reading!

“Our natures do pursue, / Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, / A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die.” Claudio, Measure for Measure, 1.2.120-2 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Petr Rykov and the full company, Cheek by Jowl and the Pushkin Theatre, 2013

“Simply the thing I am / Shall make me live.” Parolles, All’s Well That Ends Well, 4.3.322-3 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo credit: John Harrell as Parolles, All’s Well That Ends Well, American Shakespeare Center, 2005, photographed by Tommy Thompson

“For ‘tis a question left us yet to prove, / Whether love lead fortune or else fortune love.” Player King, Hamlet, 3.2.197-8 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo credit: Michael Genet as Player King, Hamlet, the Old Globe, 2017, photographed by Jim Cox

“If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned” Falstaff, Henry IV Part 1, 2.4.437-9 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Newcomb as Falstaff, Henry IV.1, Shakespeare Orange County, 2017

📚 The #sdssbookofthemonth : Shakespeare’s Margaret by Charles O’Malley and Scott W. Stern! 📚 For a full description, links to purchase, or to suggest next month's book, go to bit.ly/bookofthemonthlist Happy reading! #womeninhistory #BookRecommendation

“He that a fool doth very wisely hit / Doth very foolishly, although he smart, / Not to seem senseless of the bob.” Jacques, As You Like It, 2.7.53-55 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Carpenter as Jacques, As You Like It, San Jose Repertory Theatre, 2009, by Berne

⚖️💍 Join Sam Kolodezh for the second half of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice! 💍⚖️ August 18 at 6:30 pm at the Coronado Public Library. Our open readings are free to join, and all are welcome to participate! Grab your spot at bit.ly/merchantpart2 #Shakespeare

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, / Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend / More than cool reason ever comprehends” Theseus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: the cast of AMND, Everyman Theatre, 2024, by Teresa Castracane

“Got to; it is a plague / That Cupid will impose for my neglect / Of his almighty dreadful little might.” Berowne, Love’s Labor’s Lost, 3.1.201-3 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Credit: Kieran Campion as Berowne, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Old Globe, 2016, photo by Jim Cox

“Yet this is my comfort; when your words are done, / My woes end likewise with the evening sun.” Egeon, The Comedy of Errors, 1.1.26-7 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Credit: Wallnau as Egeon, The Comedy of Errors, PA Shakespeare Festival, 2011, photo by Lee A. Butz