Shakespeare Month at Good Tickle Brain continues with a look at two of the physical spaces that defined so much of Shakespeare's career.
Tune in on Thursday to see the end of Shakespeare... or is it the beginning????
Shakespeare: The Playwright
SHAKESPEARE MONTH continues! When we last left Will, he was stuck in the Lost Years, but now he's made it to London and is ready to start writing plays!
Tune in next week to learn a bit more about WHERE all those plays were performed!
Shakespeare: The Lost Years
It's SHAKESPEARE MONTH here at Good Tickle Brain! Today we take a look at one of the most exciting period in Shakespeare's life: that seven-year gap when we have no documentation as to his activites and can thus imagine him doing ANYTHING.
I kind of love it that we don't know exactly what Shakespeare was doing during this time. It's nice to have a few unanswered questions.
Tune in Thursday to see Shakespeare's triumphant emergence in London!
Shakespeare: The Youth
It's SHAKESPEARE MONTH! Let's continue our journey through the timeline of Shakespeare's life with today's installment taking a closer look at Shakespeare's salad days in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Tune in next week to find out all about those missing seven years!
Shakespeare: The Timeline
It's April, which means it's SHAKESPEARE MONTH! All month I'll be running a series of biographical Shakespeare comics. Now, I'd like to state up front that I'm not a Shakespeare historian: I'm a Shakespeare cartoonist, and the two are very different things. So if there's something glaringly incorrect, I apologize in advance.
(And no, saying Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him is not glaringly incorrect. Go find an Oxfordian stick figure comic to follow or something.)
Tune in for the next installment on Thursday!
Stick Figure Iconography: Prospero
For the last (for the moment, anyways) installment of this month's Shakespearean Stick Figure Iconography series, we're going to take a look at that very iconic sorcerer, Prospero!
Of course, one of the most memorable Prosperos I've ever seen was Patrick Stewart as a bald, clean-shaven, fur-clad arctic Prospero, and female Prosperos are becoming more and more widespread, so obviously these signifiers are not universal...
....except the stick. He's always got his stick.
Tune in next week as we start on an April Shakespeare special!
Stick Figure Iconography: Cleopatra
For this "Shakespearean Stick Figure Iconography" series, I deliberately picked characters who were very visually distinctive, and few characters are more visually distinctive than the Queen of the Nile.
I'm a big fan of Cleopatra's little snake crown. It's iconic and shows up quite often in productions. I can almost imagine the costume designers sketching the crown out and thinking... "yeah, we're adding the little snake, just try and stop us."
Stick Figure Iconography: Henry V
You know who's big on iconography? The British royal family. Here's some of the distinguishing characteristics and symbols of Henry V!
I love Henry V's gorget. Sometimes it's a chainmail coif. Either way, it's cheaper and more comfortable to wear than a full suit of armour.
Sadly, the pudding basin haircut rarely makes an appearance on stage nowadays.