Apropos absolutely nothing I just thought I'd share this lovely stop-animation piece by Anna Cohen.

I'd missed this up till now, it's quite charming. Any more?

Not quite;

Shakespeare is better in the original Klingon;

More Shakespearean writer's block (sorry about the quality):

But in contrast to the Bard struggling to find the right words, this animation by Aardman, called 'Next', presents Shakespeare in fine creative form: all 34 plays acted out, silently, in five minutes. How many can you identify?



I think the plays are in the following order:
Henry V; Julius Caesar; Antony & Cleopatra; Coriolanus; Henry VIII; Romeo & Juliet; Henry IV; Richard II; Henry VI; Richard III; Troilus & Cressida; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Hamlet; Othello; Titus Andronicus; Timon Of Athens; The Tempest; As You Like It; Macbeth; All's Well That Ends Well; Taming Of The Shrew; Much Ado About Nothing; Merry Wives Of Windsor; The Merchant Of Venice; King John; Pericles; King Lear; Comedy Of Errors; Love's Labour's Lost; Twelfth Night; Two Gentlemen Of Verona; Winter's Tale; Measure For Measure; Cymbeline.

You did very well to get all of them Meles. I could only get the really easy ones - Antony & Cleopatra (Egyptian headdress), Henry VI (La Pucelle burning at the stake), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom as an ass), Othello (two-tone mask), The Tempest (ship in a storm), The Merchant of Venice (gold, silver and lead caskets), The Winter's Tale (exit, pursued by a bear). So just 7 out of 34. 

I suppose it's down to which plays one is most familiar with. Following your list, however, I can identify Henry V, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Romeo & Juliet, Richard III, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and the Comedy of Errors which seem obvious now. As for the others, then I really will need to brush up my Shakespeare. To be able to perform all of the plays in just 5 minutes is quite amazing. It makes the efforts of the Reduced Shakespeare Company seem like bum-numbing ordeals in comparison.

Vizzer wrote:

You did very well to get all of them Meles. I could only get the really easy ones.

Whilst I'm quite chuffed that you think I might be some sort of Shakespearean scholar ... I'm sorry but I feely admit that I just got the list from other online commentators.    

Nevertheless I found it fun to try and pick out the few Shakespeare works that I know well, from those that are rather more hazy, from those that I have no idea of the story at all.