Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Silent Merchant in Silent Venice

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Merchant of Venice [ Il Mercante di Venezia ]. Dir. Gerolamo Lo Savio. Perf. Ermete Novelli, Francesca Bertini, and Olga Giannini Novelli...
Monday, October 20, 2008

If Silence be the Food of Love . . .

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Twelfth Night . Dir. Charles Kent. Perf. Florence Turner, Charles Kent, Julia Swayne Gordon, and Tefft Johnson. Vitagraph Company of Amer...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

The Dawn of Shakespearean Cinema

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King John . Dir. William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson and Walter Pfeffer Dando. Perf. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Dora Senior, F. M. Paget, and J...
Saturday, October 18, 2008

Early Twentieth-Century Shrew Taming

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The Taming of the Shrew . Dir. D. W. Grifffith. Perf. Florence Lawrence and Arthur V. Johnson. 1908. Wehr, Katy. “’Til Your Heart Come...
Friday, October 17, 2008

A Christmas Macbeth

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Macbeth . Prod. American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. 1905. American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, 1905. Christmas traditions in 1...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Christmas is Coming, so Let me have Men about me that are Fat

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Cajus Julius Caesar . Dir. Enrico Guazzoni. Perf. Amleto Novelli, Giovanna Terribili Gonzalès, Pina Menichelli, Ruffo Geri, Ignazio Lupi, ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Eleven Years Later, Another Silent Othello

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Othello . Dir. Dimitri Buchowetzki. Perf. Emil Jannings and Werner Krauss. 1922. DVD. Keno Video, 2002. The advanced special effects ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Desdemona

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Desdemona [a.k.a. Up with the Curtain ( For Åabent Tæppe )]. Dir. August Blom. Perf. Valdemar Psilander, Thyra Reimann, Nicolai Brechlin...
Monday, October 13, 2008

A Week of Silents at Bardfilm

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Richard III . Dir. James Keane. Perf. Frederick Warde, Robert Gomp, Albert Gardner, and Violet Stuart. 1912. DVD. Kino, 2001. Gnarls ...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Today: "Blow, Winds, and Crack Your Cheeks"—Slings and Arrows Style

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“That Way Madness Lies.” By Susan Coyne. Dir. Peter Wellington. Perf. Martha Burns, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, Mark McKinney, Oliver Denn...
Saturday, October 11, 2008

Slings and Arrows: Third Season, Opening Song

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“That Way Madness Lies.” By Susan Coyne. Dir. Peter Wellington. Perf. Martha Burns, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, Mark McKinney, Oliver Denn...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

A Little Ado Before the Weekend

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Much Ado About Nothing . Shakespeare Retold . Dir. Brian Percival. Perf. Sarah Parish, Damian Lewis, and Billie Piper. 2005. DVD. BBC,...
Thursday, October 9, 2008

Johnson, Shakespeare, and Gloucester

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Johnson, Samuel. Preface to Shakespeare . New York: Kessinger Publishing, 2004. In his Preface to Shakespeare , Samuel Johnson wrote th...
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

WWSPST?: What Would Sir Philip Sidney Think?

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Shakespeare: A Day at the Globe . By William Furstenberg. Prod. William Furstenberg. Videocassette. Guidance Associates, 1990. Sidney, ...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Stand up! Stand up!

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King Lear . Dir. Brian Blessed. Perf. Brian Blessed, Hildegard Neil, Jason Riddington, and Phillippa Peak. 1999. DVD. Storm Bird, 2006....