💀🎃 See Rob Crisell at @SDMA on Halloween for Spooky Shakespeare! 🎃💀 Performances are at 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., free with museum admission. Go to bit.ly/spookyshakes2026 for more info! See you there! 👻 #halloween #Halloween2026 #Shakespeare #Museums

Happy St. Crispin's Day! King Henry V of England: St. Crispin's Day Speech at the Battle of Agin... youtu.be/0tj74jDa0fk?si=yPeV… via @YouTube

“The benediction of these covering heavens / Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy / To inlay heaven with stars” Belarius, Cymbeline, 5.5.424 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Credit: Jonathan Goad as Belarius, Cymbeline, Stratford Festival, 2024, by David Hou

💀🎃Something wicked this way comes…🎃💀 A favorite @SDMA community tradition returns with scenes of mystery, magic, humor, and the supernatural for Spooky Shakespeare! Saturday, October 31 at 1 & 2:30 p.m. Free with museum admission. bit.ly/spookyshakes2026 See you there! 👻

“And it is very much lamented, Brutus, / That you have no such mirrors as will turn / Your hidden worthiness into your eye” Cassius, 1.2.61-63 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Caro Zeller, Julius Caesar, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2025, by Jenny Graham

📚 The #sdssbookofthemonth : The Waiting Game by Nicola Clark! 📚 For a full description of the book or to suggest a book for next month, go to bit.ly/bookofthemonthlist Happy reading! #BookRecommendations #historybuff

“That wench is stark mad or wonderful forward.” Tranio, The Taming of the Shrew, 1.1.70 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Matt Pfeiffer as Tranio, The Taming of the Shrew, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, 2007, photo by Lee A Butz

On October 3rd, 2026, in "The Kingdom of Naples versus Prospero," the jury of “Neapolitans” found Prospero not guilty of piracy and false imprisonment. Bravo to the cast for a wonderful production.

“Upon your sword / Sit laurel victory, and smooth success / Be strew’d before your feet!” Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.3.99-101 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo credit: Kathryn Tkel as Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2025

“Is’t night’s predominance, or the day’s shame, / That darkness does the face of earth entomb, / When living light should kiss it?” Ross, Macbeth, 2.4.8-10 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Angela Fennell, Macbeth, Temple University, 2014, by Luis Fernando Rodriguez

⚖️🔮Join us for The Kingdom of Naples versus Prospero: A Mock Trial & Talkback! 🔮⚖️ Get ready to dive into a deconstruction of The Tempest by means of the adversary system of justice. October 3, 3:00 - 4:30 PM, Mission Valley Library, free admission, bit.ly/naplesvsprospero

“They are all but stomachs, and we all but food: / They eat us hungerly, and when they are full / They belch us.” Emilia, Othello, 3.4.105-7 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Stephanie Holladay Earl and Bridget Rue, Othello, American Shakespeare Center, 2014

📚 The #sdssbookofthemonth: Tyrant by Stephen Greenblatt! 📚 For a full description or to suggest a book for next month, go to bit.ly/bookofthemonthlist Happy reading!

“Our natures do pursue, / Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, / A thirsty evil, and when we drink we die.” Claudio, Measure for Measure, 1.2.120-2 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Petr Rykov and the full company, Cheek by Jowl and the Pushkin Theatre, 2013

“Simply the thing I am / Shall make me live.” Parolles, All’s Well That Ends Well, 4.3.322-3 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo credit: John Harrell as Parolles, All’s Well That Ends Well, American Shakespeare Center, 2005, photographed by Tommy Thompson

“For ‘tis a question left us yet to prove, / Whether love lead fortune or else fortune love.” Player King, Hamlet, 3.2.197-8 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo credit: Michael Genet as Player King, Hamlet, the Old Globe, 2017, photographed by Jim Cox

“If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned” Falstaff, Henry IV Part 1, 2.4.437-9 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Newcomb as Falstaff, Henry IV.1, Shakespeare Orange County, 2017

📚 The #sdssbookofthemonth : Shakespeare’s Margaret by Charles O’Malley and Scott W. Stern! 📚 For a full description, links to purchase, or to suggest next month's book, go to bit.ly/bookofthemonthlist Happy reading! #womeninhistory #BookRecommendation

“He that a fool doth very wisely hit / Doth very foolishly, although he smart, / Not to seem senseless of the bob.” Jacques, As You Like It, 2.7.53-55 #shakespearesaturdays #wordswordswords Photo: Carpenter as Jacques, As You Like It, San Jose Repertory Theatre, 2009, by Berne