Paul Adrian Fried / HAMLET'S BIBLE

Cassidy Cash has an episode, " Is Hamlet a Christmas Play? " This older podcast/episode from 2019 is still available on YouTube: In it, she discusses Steve Roth's essay, " Hamlet as The Christmas Prince: Certain Speculations on Hamlet, the Calendar, Revels, and Misrule. " It's an interesting topic and podcast episode. Roth's essay appeared in Early Modern Literary Studies 7.3 (January, 2002): 5.1-89 Roth is also the author of the book, Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country . In it, he argues that Hamlet is about 16 years old. See also Rhodri Lewis, Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness , and his article in Shakespeare Magazine UK from August of 2018, issue 14: "How old is Hamlet?" ). One need not agree with them on this point, especially if one is Ian McKellen.... While the play may have been written for, opened, and played during Advent and the 12 Days of Christmas, the play contains references to scripture readings that wer...

Actor and teacher Dan Burkarth was in an Instant Shakespeare production of Antony and Cleopatra recorded from a Zoom performance and available on YouTube. Instant Shakespeare does annual readings of all Shakespeare's plays and has a LinkedIn page here , and a website here . After some initial chatter and clearing of throats, the performance begins about two minutes in, at this YouTube link .  In the 400+ years since Shakespeare's death, performances of all of Shakespeare's plays usually took place long before the advent of motion pictures, TV, and internet. But one could imagine some families holding dramatic readings of Shakespeare's plays, with certain family members doubling or tripling their roles they played to cover all the parts. (It is said that Jane Austen participated in "family theatricals" at home, and it would not be too much of a stretch of the imagination to think that at times these may have included some Shakespeare plays or s...