The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare, for the week ending Monday, August 25th, 2014

Summary: This week's news review contains Roger Federer, Shakespeare's Views on Aging, The Science of Shakespeare, King Rear, and Naked Shakespeare (and wow those last two do NOT sound right together). PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history AND our new partnership with The Shakespeare Standard. Story Links King Rear in Japan Measure for Measure in Filipino Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream to premiere at TIFF Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream to premiere at TIFF Shake It Up, Shakespeare The Winter's Tale in Urdu Loss of State Funds & North Carolina Shakespeare Shakespeare's Views on Aging Aren't That Simple Idaho Shakespeare Festival's The Fool Squad says Goodbye Hudson Valley Shakespeare Announces 29th season Outdoor Readings of The Tempest by Bay Street Shakespeare Augustus and Shakespeare Shakespeare's for the young again at Turners The Science of Shakespeare Changes coming to St. Louis Shakespeare Shakespeare Could Have Been Depressed When He Wrote Timon of Athens Roger Federer Casting News for BBC's The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses There's Nothing Like Shakespeare Live Historic Portland ballroom could get new life with Naked Shakespeare productions As You Like It by Montana Shakespeare in the Parks Julius Caesar by Sweet Tea Shakespeare Richard III by Long Beach Shakespeare Company Titus Andronicus in a Parking Structure The Winter's Tale by the Shakespeare Theater Company Breaking the Shakespeare Code at Fringe NYC 2014 (review) Oregon Shakespeare Festival (reviews) Pericles by Elm Shakespeare Company (review) The Entire Season by Oregon Shakespeare Festival (reviews) The Jedi Doth Return (review) The Tao of Shakespeare (review) Podcast Credits This podcast was recorded using a Blue Snowball microphone onto an ASUS laptop, using Audacity recording software. It was then edited in Adobe Audition Creative Cloud on a Dell Inspiron 3847 computer. The bumper music (Blue Nuke) and the segue music (Sonic Chaos) are courtesy of Royalty Free Music.com, which offers a comprehensive music library of production music for your various royalty free music needs including full albums, tracks and free music clips, loops, and beats available for download.