Friday, August 8, 2008

The Granddaddy of Modern Tempests

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Prospero's Books . Dir. Peter Greenaway. Perf. Sir John Guelgud, Michael Clark, Isabelle Pasco, and Orpheo. 1991. Videocassette. Me...
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Straightforward Version of The Tempest

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The Tempest . Dir. John Gorrie. Perf. Michael Hordern, Warren Clarke, Pippa Guard, and David Dixon. 1980. DVD. Ambrose Video, 2001. F...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Planet, Island . . . What's the Difference?

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Forbidden Planet . Dir. Fred M. Wilcox. Perf. Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. 1956. Warner Home Video, 2000. The Plo...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Tempest: A Recontextualization of The Tempest

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Tempest .  Dir. Paul Mazursky.  Perf. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, and  Molly Ringwald.  1982.   DVD.  Sony P...
Monday, August 4, 2008

Patrick Stewart as Prospero—A Fragment of The Tempest

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“Episode 1.6.”  By Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.  Perf. Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Ashley Jensen, and Patrick Stewart.  Dir. Ric...
Sunday, August 3, 2008

"I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me." —Henry V

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Orr, Wendy.    Nim's Island .  Illus. Kerry Millard.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Wendy Orr, author of Nim's Island (on whi...
Saturday, August 2, 2008

Random Saturday Morning Shakespeare Comic

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Knight, Kevin. "Untitled."  N.d. N.p. I don't really know anything about the author of this comic. I just chanced upon it whi...
Friday, August 1, 2008

A New Shakespeare-Related Novel

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Winfield, Jess. My Name is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare . New York:  Twelve, 2008. The New York Times just reviewed—or, r...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

A Return to Last Action Hero

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Last Action Hero . Dir. John McTiernan. Perf. Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, and Austin O'Brien. 1993. DVD. ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

From Shakespeare's Wife to Shakespeare's Landlady

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Nicholl, Charles. The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street . New York: Viking, 2007. [This post has been in the draft stage f...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

What noise? [Doctor] Who calls on Hamlet?

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Hamlet .  Dir. Gregory Doran.  Perf. David Tennant and Patrick Stewart.  Royal Shakespeare Company.   Stratford-on-Avon.  The Courtyard Thea...

Brief but Brilliant—Another Shakespeare Reference in Doctor Who

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“The Unquiet Dead.” By Mark Gatiss.   Perf. Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper, and Simon Callow.  Dir. Euros Lyn. Doctor Who .  Season 1...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

First and Second Impressions on the GRSF's Taming

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The Taming of the Shrew .  Dir. Alec Wild.  Perf. Christopher Gerson, Tarah Flanagan, Jonathan Gillard Daly, Chris Hirsch, Zachary Michael F...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Chris Gerson as Petruchio

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The Taming of the Shrew . Dir. Alec Wild. Perf. Christopher Gerson, Jonathan Gillard Daly, Chris Hirsch and Nicole Rodenburg. Great River...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Jack Benny and the Sympathetic Shylock

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To Be or Not to Be . Dir. Ernst Lubitsch. Perf. Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack, and Felix Bressart. 1942. DVD. Warner Home Vi...