Monday, May 4, 2009

Shakespeare in Foxtrot

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Amend, Bill. Foxtrot .  Many a book: Many a year. Many, many years ago, Bill Amend did a week-long series on Macbeth . I can still recal...
Friday, May 1, 2009

Ian McKellen's Dagger Speech

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Macbeth . Dir. Philip Casson. Perf. Ian McKellen and Judi Dench. 1979. DVD. A&E Home Video, 2004. One of the places to watch in a...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Bollywood Macbeth

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Maqbool . Dir. Vishal Bharadwaj. Perf. Irfan Khan and Tabu. 2003. DVD. Music Today, 2004. Vast, immeasurable amounts of work have pre...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Shakespeare in Asia—on Shakespeare's Birthday!

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Shakespeare Performance in Asia . MIT Shakespeare Electronic Archive. 23 April 2009 { URL }. Today is Shakespeare's birthday—and the d...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Studio 60 on the Shakespeare Strip

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“The Focus Group.” By Aaron Sorkin. Perf. Matthew Perry and Sarah Paulson. Dir. Chris Misiano. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip . Season 1...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Tennant's Hamlet to be Released on DVD

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Hamlet . Dir. Gregory Doran. Perf. David Tennant and Patrick Stewart. Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford-on-Avon. The Courtyard Thea...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Gielgud as Hamlet in 1944

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“Shakespeare: Drama’s DNA.” Perf. Richard Eyre, Peter Brook, and Judy Dench. Dir. Roger Parsons. Changing Stages . Episode 1. BBC. 5 ...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Meryl Streep Comments on her Role as Kate

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Kiss me, Petruchio . Dir. Christopher Dixon. Perf. Meryl Streep and Raul Julia. 1981. Videocassette. Films, Inc., 1983. Sometimes, th...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Meryl Streep as Kate

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Kiss me, Petruchio . Dir. Christopher Dixon. Perf. Meryl Streep and Raul Julia. 1981. Videocassette. Films, Inc., 1983. Meryl Streep ...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The Legend of the Black Scorpion: Hamlet as Wuxia

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The Legend of the Black Scorpion [a.k.a. The Banquet ( Ye Yan )]. Dir. Feng Xiaogang. Perf. Zhang Ziyi, Daniel Wu, Zhou Xun, Ge You, Ma ...
Monday, March 9, 2009

Shakespeare Sits for a Portrait in 1610

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MacKey, Robert. "Portrait of Shakespeare Unveiled, 399 Years Late." The Lede . 9 March 2009. I'd heard rumors about this, b...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Shakespeare in the 1950s: The Guthrie Theatre's Production of Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Two Gentlemen of Verona . Dir. Joe Dowling. Perf. Sasha Andreev, Sam Bardwell, Michael Booth, Sun Mee Chomet, Laura Esping, Nathaniel Full...
Monday, March 2, 2009

Simpsons and Shakespeare

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“Funeral for a Fiend.” By Michael Price. Perf. Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer, Hank Azari...
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Cry "Havok," and Let Slip the Kittens of War!

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Veitch, Joel. "Kitten War." rathergood.com . 1 March 2009 { http://rathergood.com/ }. Occasionally, the very tangential makes ...
Sunday, March 1, 2009

Post-Colonialism in Space!

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Forbidden Planet . Dir. Fred M. Wilcox. Perf. Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. 1956. Warner Home Video, 2000. I'v...