The famous lines ‘sweets are the uses of adversity’ are quoted from Shakespeare play **“As you like it”** **Act, II and Scene, I**. Shakespeare explores the uses of adversity in an optimistic manner. He compares the adversity with a ugly looking creature toad. Which attracts no attention from an onlooker. However, despite being ugly and venomous. It carries out precious jewels on his head. Similarly, adversity has its own benefits despite being detestable. The poet of the east, Allama Iqbal’s poetry reflects that the full potential of a being is ripened through Qalandari ( discomfort) rather than Sikandari (comfort). Hazrat Ali was barely dependent on bread and simple life style yet power and wisdom is associated with his name. In the battle of **“Tabuq”** muslim fighters were supposed to sustain on a date during war. Moreover, the Mughal emperor had to face adverse circumstances to expand their territory. **The Tauzak — Babri** is full of trial and tribulation, emperor Babar passed through different phases in his life. The battle of **“Khanwa”** fought in 1527 is reminiscent of his supreme courage against hostile circumstances. During the battle, being an orator, he addressed his soldiers so emotionally that it sparked them with zeal “do or die”. Finally, he won against the heavy odds. If the history verdict accepted than great men/women of all categories appears to have been brought up in the school of adversity. Adversity is the mother of greatness.

Greetings, fellow fans of the Bard of Avon! I was wondering how many of us are part of a Shakespeare society open to the general public and what form that might take.

I'm in the Glasgow Shakespeare Society and, as secretary and compiler of our newsletter, I'm interested in reaching out across the world to find other Shakespeare societies. We recently traced the existence of a Shakspere Society (sic) in Glasgow to as far back as 1872, although the current version has been running for 54 years. We study 4 plays a year from October to April and end with a Bard's Birthday Bash every 23rd April. I also know that the University of Glasgow also has a society for students, which is more performance-based

Are you in a society? Where and how long has it been running? How many members do you have? How do your meetings run? Thanks in advance for any information!

Hair is everything.

is performing it for yourself gaining the highest reward?

What do you think? Of course it is AI created at Muse.ai. Timon of Athens is next.

Edit: just to preface, it wasn't a student performance as in "students acting in the play". They were professional actors, but everyone in the audience were either students or teachers who brought the students.

Yesterday I went to a student performance of King Lear,, with discounted tickets and a Q&A after for those who were interested. It was my first Shakespeare play and my first exposure to the play itself as I need to study it for English A Level soon.

However, the audience was honestly quite disrespectful, and it made me wonder how many of them were there because they wanted to be, or whether they've even been to a theatre or cinema at all before.

The most off-putting thing was how people would straight up laugh at parts that were obviously not funny. I could name exactly three quips in general play that were meant to be funny, even darkly funny, but there is nothing funny about Lear having a mental breakdown or lying down next to his dead daughter and mourning!!

It wasn't even nervous laughter either, it was actual chuckling from a collective group. It was honestly really disrespectful not only by disrupting other audience members but also to the actors!!! Like what the hell?!

There was also this one guy who was sat front row at stage level, and he kept stretching his legs out into the stage. Like oh my god stop that.

Anyways this is a bit of a rant so I'll try and end positive; the performances were fantastic, the staging was great, and I thoroughly enjoyed. But goddamn some people were rude.

i've heard of people doing such, and perhaps you have too, and i was wondering what was gained from it?

I have a couple:
The wind and the rain motif is an enduring cycle which represents the cynical nature of life I.e there comes periods of disorder (the rain) with periods of renewal (clear skies) which ultimately allows for folly without consequence.

Illyria is really just a high school.

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Cowardly manipulation and cannon fodder

The relation between Norns, Weird Sisters, and Witches.

Here's some interesting news.

Dramatic new evidence concludes that the play Edward III should be added to William Shakespeare’s canon, and also that it was a major collaboration with his contemporary rival Christopher Marlowe.

The history was published anonymously in 1596, and it has long been thought that Shakespeare wrote at least a few scenes. However, Dr Rory Loughnane, a leading scholar and co-author of the research, told the Guardian that computerised textual analysis pushed the case “beyond any reasonable doubt” that the Stratford-born playwright was the principal writer.

He said: “That’s the new finding, that both Shakespeare, now confirmed beyond doubt, and Marlowe, unexpectedly found for the first time, are present in the play, and therefore it represents a newly found collaboration between the two.

The article doesn't go into too much detail about what 'computerised textual analysis' means, whether it's AI analysis or not, but the paper isn't out yet.

What's your best guess or belief about what Shakespeare was doing in the "lost years" (1585 - 1592)? Any evidence?

I don't understand why it isn't avaliable on streaming or hasn't ever been released on DVD? Is there some sort of residuals issue? I have to imagine Benedict Cumberbatch doesn't care that much about making money off of this, but I was recently reminded of its existence and I just want to be able to watch it again, but the only way I can seem to find it is illegally burned DVD's on sketchy third party websites, there isn't even an illegal copy online anywhere.

The sort of idea that you think of after reading a play too many times, but honestly would never work on stage. Go big or go home guys! The stranger, the better

It’s been about a month since I started re-reading, and re-sounding, Shakespeare’s sonnets, for myself and for my kids.
So far that’s 38 musical versions of 18 sonnets (1, 2, 5, 18, 27, 43, 60, 66, 77, 94, 98, 113, 116, 124, 128, 129, 141, 146) tango and vals, trap, salsa and salsa choke, bachata, milonga, chacarera, phonk, club, and a few others.
The one my kids like for most is Sonnet 113 in the club version. They say it has “aura”, and the melody and the hook are a bit catchy. It’s also the first sonnet I've made a song with, the one where I changed the lyrics most, to make it easier for me to follow: the list near the end (“the mountain or the sea, the day or night, the crow or dove… it shapes them to your feature”) became a repeated hook, and the chorus keeps the opening and the closing couplet. I know this isn’t how the poem is built, and I may have lost things I couldn’t hear.
The music is AI-assisted. None of it is on Spotify or any other streaming platform. For now it’s only on Suno, YouTube and a small UK indie radio station, abyssfm.
I'm happy if your kids also like it.

I’ve been rereading Measure for Measure, and Lucio keeps stealing my attention. He’s a gossip and a nuisance, but he also drives the plot forward at a key moment, and he pays for it in the end. It made me wonder how many minor characters do real structural work that gets overlooked. Who’s your pick, and in which play?