Enjoying Shakespeare

In my post Hold That Thought!, I talked about how all three Lion King films are based on plays by William Shakespeare. Actually, not Lion King 1½ which is based on a play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead which is based on characters from Hamlet. I only just found that out…

Anyways, the point is Shakespeare has helped Lion King and I said I was going to study Shakespeare. And I have started to do this through Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb. They have taken 20 of the classic Shakespeare stories and rewritten them for children.

Children?

Yeah, I’ve been listening to children stories, seeing that I like a kids movie…

Anyways, if you want to get an introduction to Shakespeare as well you can listen to recordings of the stories at LibriVox or read the text at Project Gutenberg.

Merchant of Venice it should be noted is referanced in Simba’s Pride, well worth a listen or read.