Did Edward de Vere actually write Shakespeare's plays?
Probably not. But the more important questions is: Has Rolland Emerich made an engaging film based on that fringe theory?
Find our for yourself at a sneak preview of "Anonymous," starring Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis and Rhys Ifans.
I've got passes for an AMC Castleton screening on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 7:30.
All you have to do is enter below and name your favorite Shakespeare play, film, spin-off or parody. I'll pick winners at random until the passes are gone, beginning Oct. 25th.
Just remember that fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. (Act 4, scene 3)
Halloween also brings to mind one of my favorite of Shakespeare's gags, not from Julius Caesar but, rather, about Julius Caesar:
In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.
Hamlet (Act 1, scene 1)
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange,
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell;
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them - Ding-dong, bell.
-- The Tempest
Just some of the 200 lines of Shakespeare's (yes, his!) plays and sonnets I had to memorize for my college course on The Bard. Interesting that Full Fathom Five has been the title of so many other works -- from Jackson Pollack to Stone Roses -- proof of Shakespeare's continued influence on our culture.