The Society's mission is to introduce, educate and encourage the public’s understanding and enjoyment of the works of William Shakespeare.
San Diego, California
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💀🎃 See Larissa Ryan at @SDMA on Halloween for Spooky Shakespeare! 🎃💀
Performances are at 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., free with museum admission. Go to bit.ly/spookyshakes2026 for more info!
See you there! 👻
#halloween #Halloween2026 #Shakespeare #Museums
Black women have a 400-year history with Shakespeare. A new exhibit in D.C. finally tells their story thegrio.com/2026/10/27/black…
💀🎃 See Kayla René at @SDMA on Halloween for Spooky Shakespeare! 🎃💀
Performances are at 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., free with museum admission. Go to bit.ly/spookyshakes2026 for more info!
See you there! 👻
#halloween #Halloween2026 #Shakespeare #Museums
💀🎃 See Michael Hoag at @SDMA on Halloween for Spooky Shakespeare! 🎃💀
Performances are at 1:00 p.m. and at 2:30 p.m., free with museum admission. Go to bit.ly/spookyshakes2026 for more info!
See you there! 👻
#halloween #Halloween2026 #Shakespeare #Museums
💀🎃 See Rob Crisell at @SDMA on Halloween for Spooky Shakespeare! 🎃💀
Performances are at 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., free with museum admission. Go to bit.ly/spookyshakes2026 for more info!
See you there! 👻
#halloween #Halloween2026 #Shakespeare #Museums
Happy St. Crispin's Day!
King Henry V of England: St. Crispin's Day Speech at the Battle of Agin... youtu.be/0tj74jDa0fk?si=yPeV… via @YouTube
“The benediction of these covering heavens / Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy / To inlay heaven with stars”
Belarius, Cymbeline, 5.5.424
#shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords
Credit: Jonathan Goad as Belarius, Cymbeline, Stratford Festival, 2024, by David Hou
💀🎃Something wicked this way comes…🎃💀
A favorite @SDMA community tradition returns with scenes of mystery, magic, humor, and the supernatural for Spooky Shakespeare!
Saturday, October 31 at 1 & 2:30 p.m. Free with museum admission. bit.ly/spookyshakes2026
See you there! 👻
“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
