ian mckellen analyses the final speech in macbeth

thedailywhat:

Kickass Cover of the Day: To help her memorize Hamlet’s “To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy for her AP English class, talented singer-songwriter Courtney Welbon gave William Shakespeare the Laura Marling treatment. 

Maybe kids today would be more inclined to appreciate The Bard if his works were funneled through twee uke arrangements? Just a thought.

[thanks courtney!]

tiny-sized:

Alan Rickman reads Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
   And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
   As any she belied with false compare. 

trailor for “terminator the second” (T2 done as a shakespearean play) 

usuckathuntingufos:

A Monologue for Three

Hilarious video. BriTANick need to update more often.

And the original: A Monologue For Thee

10102323454577 is the smallest 14-digit prime number that follows the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet (ababcdcdefefgg).