Shakespeare by the Sea, Newfoundland Dream, Salt Water Moon, "Shake It Up!", "Tunes and Tales with Kelly Russell" 2017 The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Soldier's Heart (play), "Shake It Up!", "Tunes and Tales with Kelly Russell" 2018 As You Like It, "Shake It Up!", "Tunes and Tales with Kelly Russell" Shakespeare by the Sea, Newfoundland The Shakespeare by the Sea Festival is an annual event that runs throughout the months of July and August in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada that presents outdoor productions of the plays of William Shakespeare, as well as pieces related to the province and culture. The Festival is under
Characters of Shakespear's Plays a play to be read, and he noted that by his time it had already been so often read as to have become part of the common culture. "This is that Hamlet the Dane, whom we read of in our youth". One might say, he observes, that Hamlet is just a character in a play: "Hamlet is a name; his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain." Yet Shakespeare gives those sayings a reality in the mind of the reader, making them "as real as our own thoughts." Of all Shakespeare's plays, this one is "the