Shakespeare for Presidents (Previous Presidents Loved Shakespeare)

New York Times ^ | April 26, 2009 | BARRY EDELSTEIN

[ConservativeDude]

Obama’s favorite author is probably that murderer that got executed a few years back. I forget his name, but he was a real cause celeb. I think he was nominated on numerous occasions for the Novel Peace Prize. He had some sort of cutesey name...was it Tookey or something like that?

Anyways...that is Obama’s favorite author, I’m pretty sure.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nick. Obama is Othello — but who plays Iago (a much juicier character in that play, one of my favorites of the entire Shakespeare corpus) who has the hand up the sock puppet’s ass, maneuvering him into personal destruction, that’s tough to tell. Probably a group effort.

[SunkenCiv]

This?

http://www.apple.com/webapps/entertainment/turnyouriphoneintoanebookreader.html

[Peelod]

http://readdle.com/products/shakespeare

A cooperative project between Readdle and PlayShakespeare.com, the Shakespeare application puts the complete works of William Shakespeare literally at your fingertips.
The PlayShakespeare.com editions were created by Shakespeare scholars who examined the best sources for each text in order to provide the highest quality versions possible. More information on the source texts used here.
Shakespeare includes:
All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony & Cleopatra
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Edward III
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love’s Labours Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles
King Richard II
King Richard III
Romeo & Juliet
Sir Thomas More
Sonnets
Poems
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
The Winter’s Tale
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus & Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Noble Kinsmen

[onedoug]

“Odds Bodkin, man....”