{"id":1076,"date":"2008-12-12T21:42:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T02:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2017-08-21T12:15:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:15:47","slug":"googleplex-121208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1076","title":{"rendered":"Googleplex – 12\/12\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time once again to check in on what searches people have done to find themselves at Shakespeare Teacher, and to respond in the name of fun and public service. All of the following searches brought people to this site in the past week.<\/p>\n

googleplex fridays<\/center>This feature happens to share its name with the headquarters<\/a> of Google Inc., located in Mountain View, California. I have no idea what goes on there on Fridays.<\/p>\n

how come king james didn’t like macbeth<\/center>I don’t grant your premise, unless you are referring to the historical figure and not the Shakespeare play. In fact, you might say that the play was actually written specifically to appeal to the new king. Witches were a fascination for James, so he’d have been intrigued from the start. Also, James was a direct descendent of both the historical Malcolm and the historical Banquo. Notice that the witches make a prophecy that doesn’t actually come true in the play, which is an odd dramatic convention. They prophecy that Banquo will not be king, but will instead be the father to a line of kings. Later, Macbeth is shown a vision of eight kings along with the ghost of Banquo who points at them for his. The eighth king is meant to be King James, as he is the eighth king in the house of Stewart. The prophecy doesn’t come true in the play; it comes true in the audience.<\/p>\n

presidents with the letter x<\/center>So far, it’s just Nixon, but the night is young.<\/p>\n

shakespeare film 2010<\/center>You do realize you’re skipping over a whole year, right? No interest in The Tempest<\/em><\/a> with Helen Mirren as Prospero? Not anxiously awaiting<\/a> the new Hamlet<\/em><\/a> with Screech and the Chocolate Rain<\/a> guy? Okay. From what I can tell, the Shakespeare film event of 2010 will be King Lear<\/em><\/a> with Anthony Hopkins in the title role and Naomi Watts, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Keira Knightley as his three extremely beautiful daughters. Also, Eddie Murphy – I kid you not – is planning to do a version of Romeo & Juliet<\/em>. I imagine he will be playing both roles, but that’s pure speculation.<\/p>\n

shakespeare king henry lambasts hal<\/center>I was amused to see this one because I used the phrase “lambasts Hal” in my first Shakespeare Lipogram<\/a>, and I chose the verb because it only has the vowel “A” in it. But I wonder if you’re really looking for that scene from Henry IV, Part One, or if you’re actually looking for this scene<\/a> from Henry IV, Part Two. It’s one of the great scenes from one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known works and was even listed as #38 on my Top 50 scenes<\/a> in all of Shakespeare.<\/p>\n

Hal finds his deathly-ill father asleep, assumes he\u2019s dead, and takes the crown off with him. When he returns, the King’s awake, and lambasts Hal. They reconcile, and Henry gives his son advice for how to be king. The language is… there’s no adjective I could use that you wouldn’t say “Well, yeah, it’s Shakespeare” but the language is particularly rich and evocative in this scene. I did an anagram<\/a> of a quote from it a while back, but I’m surprised I still haven’t done the most timely quote of them all: “Be it thy course to busy giddy minds\/ With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,\/ May waste the memory of the former days.” It’s even got a “Q” in it. I’ll have to save that one for a rainy day.<\/p>\n

is macbeth is worth reading<\/center>Most definitely. I suggest gathering a group of friends together, dividing up the roles, and reading it out loud. Trust me on this one. That’s how to read Macbeth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I leave the task of responding to the remaining search terms to my readers:<\/p>\n

why is shakespeare is one of the founding fathers<\/center>what did the tudors bring back to England<\/p>\n

was shakespeare a teacher?<\/p>\n

slings and arrows on demand time warner<\/p>\n

which president read macbeth before he die<\/p>\n

how did shakespeare die on youtube<\/p>\n

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