Tue. 12/06 - Gory, Graphic Shakespeare & Those Who Tried to Erase Him in the 1800s

Candles will play stunt double for actors in a new staging of Shakespeare’s most violent play. Plus, we take a detour down the path of Shakespearean conspiracies. And, in other news, the moon just got its own infrastructure package.

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Links:

• Candles take the brunt in gore-free production of Titus Andronicus (The Guardian)
• Shakespeare by Bill Bryson 
• The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro
• Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro 
• NASA Awards $57M Contract to Build Roads on the Moon (Nextgov)
• NASA, ICON Advance Lunar Construction Technology for Moon Missions (NASA)
• ICON To Develop Lunar Surface Construction System With $57.2 Million NASA Award (ICON)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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