shakespeare read montaigne. we can be positive montaigne never heard of shakespeare. this is a magical, wonderful translation, and a wonderful opportunity that a colleague of mine, peter platt, and i sought to put together, these essays that were central to shakespeare, these translations of montaigne's essays. john florio was an interesting character, the son of protestants. began his life as an italian franciscan, but he abandoned the church, became a protestant, fled to england, and had a son, john florio, in england. after a series of complicated moves, the son went to oxford and became a major figure in translation. not only for montaigne, but also for italian tax and italian sources. shakespeare probably knew this man. may not have liked him. it is hard to say. but it was through florio that not only shakespeare, but virtually everyone in england, read montaigne. >> nietzsche said shakespeare was montaigne's best reader. >> an extravagant thing to say. but he was certainly a passionate reader of montaigne. there was some connection, a surprising connection. afte

, and the offender started quoting from shakespeare.hakespeare in the shu was born. >> against -- >> still did not answer the question about the third murder. >> i guess you can look at him as being like -- >> narrator: the program has inmates rewrite shakespeare in a way that reflects their own experiences. during the shoot, they were working on macbeth, a play about assassination, and a war lord's attempt for power. >> he went to the hoods, the housing project, guys that don't got none, and used nobodies's. nobody, no. >> narrator: leon benson, serving 60 years for murder, read one of his pages to the group. >> i was pressed for time because my special preparations for tonight's special feast. >> i like the metaphor, you read the eyes like parables. that's something that shakespeare would write. >> i'm from the hood, not to separate the hood from anything else. the hood commercial now, right? shakespeare is not something i thought i would experience in my life. since i came into contact with shakespeare, i see a lot of those parallels

quite honestly i hate , shakespeare and i love puppet shakespeare.y break the fourth wall and almost explain what is going on. a lot of it gets lost for some of us. >> explain what titus andronicus is about. a lot of stabbing, murder. >> it is "kill bill" meets "sesame street." titus has lost 21 sons to the gods and sacrifices the queen and ruins everyone's lives. >> what is more metal than this? >> no puppets are actually harmed in the presentation of this play. they come back the next night. >> they are all acting. there is puppet gore. we are trying to turn it on its head. you will laugh at death while having the time of your life. i like that dark sense of humor. we are trying to look at it in a whole new way. >> imagine if you were -- when you were young person that you had the chance to see shakespeare performed by puppets. is this something that would have attracted you to play more of those kinds of roles on broadway? >> one of the visions we have for puppet shakespeare is that if this thing works, we could apply this to any of shakespeare's

shakespeares' guard and refers -- has plants referred to in shakespeare's plays and poems. located near the museum and the california academy of sciences, shakespeares garden was designed in 1928 by the california spring blossom association. flowers and plants played an important part in shakespeares literary masterpieces. here is an enchanting and tranquil garden tucked away along a path behind a charming gate. this garden is the spot to woo your date. appreciate the beauty of its unique setting. the cherry tree, the brick walkways, the enchanting stones, the rustic sundial. chaired the bards'w ro -- share the bard's words. the garden is a gem to share with someone special. pack a picnic, find a bench, enjoy the sunshine and let the whimsical words of william shakespeare float you and your loved one away. this is one of the most popular wedding locations and is available for reservations. shakespeares garden is 8ada accessible. this park is located at the bottom of a hill. it is a secret garden with an infinite and captivating appeal. carefully tucked away, one block from

a book and a large play of shakespeare.living to it and have them dance and move to it. they get to learn subli. >> do they connect more with shakespeare after they heard you? >> yes. it is more like bridging the gap. usually students that are in tune with hip hop, not familiar with shakespeare, either dash at a young age, especially students -- to compare to dark connect shakespeare to a great genre like hip hop it inspires them to open up shakespeare and learn more themselves. >> you start from a place they have a connection. they use that as a bridge. i think that's brilliant. >> yes. >> on the flip side you also perfect formed, as i mentioned, stratford upon avon shakespeare's birth place. how did the true shakespeareans view the work you were doingsome. >> it was quite a great experience. you know. the -- they like the beauty of the language and the fact that i was using his words and there was no switching of his words. i rye to call myself hip hop, you know, cliff notes. i actually -- it is the sonnet i have used, co

shakespeares' garden is ada accessible. located at the bottom of this hill, it is a secret garden with an infinite in captivating appeal. carefully tucked away, it makes the top of our list for most intimate pyknic setting. avoid all taurus cars and hassles by taking a cable car. or the 30, 45, or 91 bus. the garden was designed by thomas church in 1957. grow old with me, the best is yet to be is inscribed on a sundial. it is anchored by twin white gazebos and flowers that bloom year-round. this is the place to tell someone special or the place to declare the commitment you two share. weddings and the event reservations are available for this adorable hidden gem. we know there are many other romantic parks in san francisco. we hope you have enjoyed this torre of lookouts, picnics, and strolls that are available every day. until next time, do not forget to get out and play. for more information about reserving one of these romantic locations or any other location, call 831-5500. this number is best for special events, weddin

allies from the global justice movement ok mr shakespeare there's lots of pointing and blaming going on at the by meant thought in your opinion politics aside should be stopped to russia right now. well i don't think you can avoid the politics i regret the assumption that we should be talking about trade relations and sanctions against russia it's not russia who is conducting a deliberate extermination of the women and children in gaza it's not russia conducting the slaughter of. perhaps in syria and iraq and it's not russia that proposed the elimination of the russian language if ukraine ian russian speaking people and you notice how the rhetoric is changing on the downing of that plane as people asked the questions as to why the plane was directed over a war zone and why they lowered the altitude of the plane but your questions are sanctions. the reality is is that in the long run the west will lose out on the sanctions that europe cannot afford a sanctions france can't afford it if it lost that one point two billion for those two aircraft carriers the u.k. is being totally hypocri

. >> i was charged with first-degree murder of my friend abraham shakespeare.was a florida lottery winner and they said that i siphoned off his money and killed him, and i didn't do that. i don't like that and i'm not going to be a part of that. they're saying that i shot him twice in the chest and that he died and that i buried him and that i hid his death. >> moore says she's anything but a cold-blooded killer. >> i'm like a big kid. i like disney and mickey mouse and tinkerbell and stuff. i would love a world where i lived at walt disney world all day. >> but for the past eight months, moore has been living in a very different world, the jail's female confinement unit, where she is held in her cell away from other inmates, due in part to the intense media coverage of her case. >> because she's in the news and because of her charges. if you put her back in a pod, you don't know how another inmate is going to react to what she is allegedly accused of. so for her own safety, it's better that she's back here. >> moore has collected some of the many newspaper rep

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had enough of the west and nato and decide to make a difference as well we'll leave it there mr shakespeare thank you farah much indeed for your thoughts on the topic very much appreciate it. on the sky's the limit for bitcoin latvian line abdullah take have announced a jetset is can stop buying their take it with a virtual currency at baltic is the first line to. payment opposite a lot of the travel giant expedia began accepting bitcoin for hotel bookings and began except in the current sea full flights bookings. saudi arabia's stock market will open up to foreign investors for the first time the saudi market is the biggest in the middle east down the so. biggest in the world that is close to direct foreign investment that's off to china the move is part of why government efforts to diversify the saudi economy away from oil and now we're going to talk about corporate news and what's been going on here it most cable has a cold i suppose as opposed to the twenty five maybe. a loss of the company says this is down see that restructuring houston making basis in the cupcake. pace of russia have

mr shakespeare thanks indeed for joining us the banks are seeing this sanctions won't affect the way they do business but there will be hurting from this one thing. know for a start they're not reactive secondly this is a huge opportunity for countries around the world including russia to realize that you should never borrow or take investment from abroad you have to repay it interest in somebody else's currency you should use your own national banks this is in fact an opportunity for countries to break away from controlled by zionism and the west it's significant that even in these sanctions the european subsidiaries of the russian banks are not being targeted because the fact of the matter is is that the americans who are behind this and the europeans dead take on the russia economically face to face russia holds the gas card and it could easily nationalize the assets of b.p. and shell so look at this as a positive opportunity and although with the investment that can be technologically information associated with it do what he return has done to look at the thing as an opportunity

probably shakespeare favorite meal but i'm such a sucker for french toast i like french i love friends toast what with the with the syrup with syrup and whipped cream i'm like the worst reading yeah i say i like eat all the french toast and just put whipped cream on the syrup and my meat into like it's bad i'm addicted to it best thing about spencer's wardrobe. when i convinced mandy lion our costume designer to what spencer have nice socks and that's become like her thing now three things you'd take with you on a desert island three things i'd take well this is like two could i take like my i pad and then have internet access of course you can am i doing a court all right i'd take my i pad so i could watch movies and read the plays and read things and then i would take a chapstick because i can't stand it when my lips are dry and then i'd take. my best friend patrick egypt has fallen to its knees was skill or talent would you like to learn. wow i don't know if i could possibly answer that i mean singing i want to speak different languages like my long enough proudest achievement proud

i've seen a lot of shakespeare. i think it's just sad and happy. >> it's pretty simple stuff.had to get in tremendous shape for this movie. how long did you have to like, get exercising to be ready to play this character? >> oh, man. like eight months. >> seth: wow. >> about eight months. including like -- building up to shooting the movie and then shooting the movie. it was about eight months. of, of, pretty intense training. >> seth: what was the hardest thing to give up? because i'm assuming nutrition wise you changed your game too. >> i think my personality. [ laughter ] i think, like shedding that. and replacing it with just the guy who, like, talked about, pull ups and stuff. [ laughter ] like i turned into a bro for a minute. oh, this is the worst. i'm so sorry. my wife is like, honey. like in fact tonight it's over. >> seth: right? >> yeah. >> seth: this is it. this is the end of the press tour. >> this is the end of the press tour. the movie is coming out. i am going home and i am going to eat a pizza and we're gonna make oatmeal pancakes. daddy's back. >> seth: great

. >> then let's start with someone who did publish some books, william shakespeare.irst folio, which is in the exhibition. 1623. >> the first major publication .f shakespeare's plays a few little ones came out a few years before and small sort of pamphlets, small book sized. this is the first major publication of any plays in the -- it sort ofge really creates plays as a part of the literary canon. two of his former colleagues at the globe playhouse, after shakespeare's death taken upon themselves to preserve his plays and worked on publishing them and had to work to get the scripts of his plays that were known, some of the published editions that had already been produced, and bringing actors together to recite from memory the plays they did not have scripts for two then reconstitute things which, like romeo and juliet, would have been lost had it not been for the first folio. plays like that that we think are so iconic we shakespeare we only know because of the first folio. >> not unlike the bible. >> no. >> jane austen. is purely a point of personal privilege beca

welcome to the shakespeare garden here in the famous golden gate park. located near the museum and the california academy of sciences, the garden was designed by the california spring blossom and wildfilower association.

. >> shakespeare, or the seven ages of man speech. talks about the pants you wear when you are in your justice or your old man phase of life. so maybe someone wanted to buy an annotation that says a modern justice would wear and one. shorts. >> maybe they would. what about something like popular lyrics from a band called rum dmc. >> what about it? >> i mean, well, how would you get the lyrics and how would you go through the annotation process? what would you learn. -- if you looked uglier works in a song by ron -- run dmc? >> you would learn all sorts of stuff. it depends on what song you are reading. what genius is about is trying the connection. a run dmc song my reference another song in rap. it might reference some part of culture. maybe a references the bible. you go to the bible and you see the bible references some other -- >> it's the rabbit hole of the internet. this was the whole idea of browsing. you realize two hours later you have spent an hour trying to figure out a particular line in a song. >> sure, the context with t

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we're still reading jane austin, shakespeare. t therthere are a ton of peopleo are great but we don't, sadly, speak of anymore. >> jon: which is an act of curation. >> curation and preservation. >> jon: talamay, 1486. he took known authors, talking about geography and compiled them into a text. he, as far as we know, didn't make maps, those come later after his text. in 1486, these printed maps, they're about the fifth printed version after talamay after the gutenberg bible in '55, talamay was printed multiple times. and this work, you can see on the map, you be have the standard idea of what we have for the northern hemisphere now he figured out how to take the globe and put it in a two-dimensionalle map. he created climate zones, we call them. but sort of the tropic of cancer, the equator, and orients the northern hemisphere at the top of the globe and puts it up above but also thought the southern tip of africa connected to asia which made the indian ocean kind of like a large lake, and it was only the great arabic geographer

it was an event that shakespeare knew of, and set in the city by the sea, in cypress. the modern sushish invasion in 1974, and the division of cypress brought isolation and slow decline. now, greek and turkish cypriots started restoration. in early 2015, it will re open to tourists. the joint committee is a rare annal. established by a political leadership. it was quickly and enthusiastisticly supported by the u.n. and european union. it's a rare story everyone is keen to promote. >> these are not just monuments of turkish cypriots, for greek cypriots or venetians. they are monuments of humanity. >> there are 17 projects funded by $7 million project. this work is about defying 40 years of division and mistrust to save common heritage for both sides. >> occasionally we do argue, but not across ethnic lines, or community lines, but we argue about which is the best way of undertaking the work. >> reporter: the work is slow and painstaking but is an example of greek and turkish cypriots to get things done. over time they are thinking about a shared future than about their

they've had enough of the west and later decide to make a very different we'll leave it there mr shakespeare thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on the topic very much appreciate it. on the sky's the limit for bitcoin latvia an airline abdullah take have announced a jet setters can stop buying their tickets with the virtual currency baltic is the first line to offer. payment option a last month the travel giant expedia began accepting bitcoin for hotel bookings and began accepting the currency full flights bookings. saudi arabia's stock market will open up to foreign investors for the first time the saudi market is the biggest in the middle east the second biggest in the world that is close to direct foreign investment that's off to china the move is part of why government efforts to diversify the saudi economy away from oil and now we're going to talk about corporate news and what's been going on here in moscow what has of course is the car that has reported a twenty five million dollars loss of the company says this is down to that restructuring its making business in the country.

and lockwood does resemble the shakespear character in this respect. they were both individuals of impressive intellect who demonstrated that women can hold their own as advocates for justice. like shakespear's portia lockwood used wit, ingenuity and sheer force of will to unsettle society's inceptions of her sex. but portia to accomplish her mission had to impersonate a man. lockwood in contrast used no disguise. in tackling the prevailing notions that women and lawyering no less politics do not mix. not only did she become the first woman admitted to the bar of the supreme court and the first woman to argue before the court, but she ran twice both campaigns for the office of president of the united states. her front runner status was achieved by unflagging effort. in 1869 then the mother of two and approaching her 39th birthday she embarked on her lifelong ambition to become a lawyer. her efforts to gain admission to d.c. area law schools were at first unsuccessful. she was initially rejected on a most familiar ground. her presence would be likely to

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the dispatch from the roman numerals to 6050 a great jublt we in the bay area have been ready for shakespeareuper bowl for a long time and in the levi stadium that is really what we can do total asia region from san francisco so silicon valley we can't be beat we have the very best team playing in snmd and have them go for the super bowl i have to say on behalf of the santa clara and my former mayor patricia and julio our city manager we have steve and david from the super bowl host committee that were committed to make this an event to be remembered i think fitting of the horrifies that be made in santa clara california and the san francisco bay area. thank you >> (clapping) >> thank you, mayor our next speaker is keith bruce the ceo of the san francisco bay area 25 years of supporters marketing in event and the resume is incredible the people and the world cup and by the way, he's been on take the with 11 super bowls the 11 last super bowls some he's a busy man to put this together so keith bruce please come on up (clapping). >> thank you for that kind introduction frank. hey before we get