It's Shakespeare Week on Goodreads!

[Lilisa]

This is pretty interesting -- 20 words Shakespeare used differently...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-fi...

[Rusalka, Moderator]

This was also fun. Seems to have been a BBC and Royal Shakespeare Company collab this weekend. Hamlet and some of our RSC favourites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khu4U...

[Dawn]

That is fantastic, I love Judi Dench's line.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Dawn wrote: "That is fantastic, I love Judi Dench's line."

Me too. I lost it at that point.

[Joan]

that was a riot

[Janice, Moderator]

LOL! Judi Dench was hilarious.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I still can't work out who the first woman is, and the first guy who walks through the audience and calls them all idiots is.

[Janice, Moderator]

Me either. He's funny - calling them all idiots when he himself hasn't played Hamlet.

[Lisa]

I don't know who the first woman is, but the guy who walks through the audience and calls them idiots is Rory Kinnear. He has appeared in a couple of the recent Bond films and is also in 'Penny Dreadful' on Showtime. I think he plays Frankenstein's monster.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

OH good one Lisa. Completely correct. There you go. He was in the last few Bonds (which I haven't watched), and won awards for his Iago (in Othello) for the RSC. Hah... interesting.

[Janice, Moderator]

Oh, he plays Iago? I must see that movie. Ever since my instructor in my creative writing course showed us the trailer for it, I keep hearing people talking about Othello. I'm sure it hardly ever cropped up in conversation prior to that.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

The Lawrence Fishbourne version (and Kenneth Branagh) isn't too bad as a movie. I don't really like Branagh's Iago though, but that may just be me.

[Janice, Moderator]

The Fishbourne version was the trailer she showed us and recommended. I checked my cable provider and they don't have it.

[Dawn]

She is Harriet Walter: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910040/

I remember her best from Emma Thompsons Sense and Sensibility, where she played the sister-in-law.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Oh right. And I think from looking at IMDB I've seen her in the Agatha Christie things. Thanks Dawn!