Tag: Shakespeare
Every time you save an image as a JPEG, some of the original information is lost forever. This loss of information is hard to detect with an untrained eye. In an attempt to demonstrate exactly what is happening here, blogger Tom Scott has taken the original text from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and processed it […]
British television series “Secret Life Of…” has commissioned a group of digital artists and researchers to imagine what historical figures would look if they were alive today. The results are more or less on point. By applying contemporary trends to what historians know about these icons, the team rendered up portraits of Shakespeare, Henry VIII, […]
In Othello, Shakespeare famously wrote that “Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.” Yep, turns out he was talking out of his ass. A recently published study from Aberystwyth University suggests that England’s most revered playwright was actually a rich, miserly landowner who took advantage of the poor and was repeatedly busted for tax […]
