Shakespeare in the News

Browse the following links for current events about Shakespeare:

• Twitter and Iambic Pentameter: Interesting story on a software program that scans popular tweets for iambic pentameter poetry, putting them together in eclectic collections of "found" poetry.

• Shakespearean Sonnets in DNA? Weird, but true story of scientists who are experiencing with storing data in human DNA, they began with Shakespearean sonnets...

• Songs Based on Shakespeare: Pretty self-explanatory

• Shakespeare and Nothingness: Article about how Shakespeare influenced theoretical mathematics understanding of nothingness...mind blown.

• Shakespeare and the TV Series The Jinx: The New Yorker: Covers the confessions of madmen and murderers, drawing parallels to Hamlet, Iago, Richard II. Great stuff.

• Donald Trump's versions of Shakespearean soliloquies: Leave your politics at the door, this is funny stuff regardless of your political persuasion.

• Shakespeare Explains the 2016 Election: This highly political opinion piece evaluating Donald Trump's place in the Shakespearean canon of characters.

• Juvenile Delinquents Sentenced to Shakespeare: Prisoners performing the Bard behind bars.

• Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of War: New York Times piece (3/2017) covering how one veteran uses Shakespeare to help his fellow vets deal with PTSD.