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
Reputation of William Shakespeare William Hazlitt raised admiration for Shakespeare to worship or even "bardolatry" (a sarcastic coinage from bard + idolatry by George Bernard Shaw in 1901, meaning excessive or religious worship of Shakespeare). To compare him to other Renaissance playwrights at all, even for the purpose of finding him superior, began to seem irreverent. Shakespeare was rather to be studied without any involvement of the critical faculty, to be addressed or apostrophised—almost prayed to—by his worshippers, as in Thomas De Quincey's classic essay "On the Knocking at the Gate in "Macbeth"" (1823): "O, mighty poet! Thy works are not as those of