Video clips from the Poland Talks…
From the series of talks I gave last week for Macmillan Poland…
Discussing the difference between performing Shakespeare in RP vs OP (Shakespeare’s accent); then performing Sonnet 116 in RP, and OP; and then reading from the opening chapter of Toast, Schwarzengger’s Hamlet…
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Toast on CNN – Watch it here…
CNN segment on YouTube:
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“Humourous, unpretentious and fascinating” — The Independent On Sunday
Last weekend’s Independent on Sunday chose Toast as one of their Christmas Stocking Fillers, going as far as to say:
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He’s succeeded. It’s humourous, unpretentious and fascinating.
Welcome to Shakespeare on Toast – Getting a Taste for the Bard
Hi, and welcome to the Shakespeare on Toast website.
I’ve set this site up as a base for my new book Shakespeare on Toast – Getting a Taste for the Bard, published by Icon Books in September 2008.
In times to come, there’ll be details of literary festival talks, reviews, and anything else interesting I can think of.
There’s also a Facebook group that’s been set up, for those of you that do, and a space there for a discussion forum.
If you’d like to hear more about the book, and exactly why it’s different from all the other books on Shakespeare, click here for the video I recorded for Meet the Author, or you can click on the Amazon link over to the right under Toast Links, to pre-order the book.
Thanks for visiting…
Ben
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