Friday, February 26, 2010

Peter Brook's Midsummer Night's Dream (1970): Three Rare Clips

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Brook by Brook: Portrait Intime . Dir. Simon Brook. 2001. La Tragedie d’Hamlet . Dir. Peter Brook. Perf. Adrian Lester, Shantala Shival...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Dumbshow-within-a-Dumbshow in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead . Dir. Tom Stoppard. Perf. Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, and Richard Dreyfuss. 1990. DVD. Image Entertai...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Puppets Perform The Taming of the Shrew in Forty-Eight Seconds

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The Taming of the Shrew . Dir. Sam Taylor. Perf. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. 1929. DVD. Aikman Archive, 2005. The first full...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Strings: A Marionette Drama with Tangential Connections to Hamlet

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Strings . Dir. Anders Rønnow Klarlund. Perf. James McAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Julian Glover, Derek Jacobi, Ian Hart, Claire Skinner, Dav...
Monday, February 22, 2010

10 Things I Hate About You: The Television Series

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“Pilot.” By Carter Covington. Perf. Lindsey Shaw, Meaghan Jette Martin, Ethan Peck, Nicholas Braun, Cameron James, Dana Davis, Jolene Purd...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Returning to Gargoyles—Much More Macbeth in Season Two

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“The Mirror.” By Lydia Marano. Perf. Keith David, Jonathan Frakes, Edward Asner, and John Rhys-Davies. Dir. Frank Paur. Gargoyles . Se...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Is this the Beginning of Simpsons Shakespeare?

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“Dial ‘Z’ for Zombies.” “Treehouse of Horror III.” By Sam Simon and Jon Vitti. Perf. Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Ye...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Krusty the Clown as King Lear: Happy Second Anniversary to Bardfilm

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"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" By Al Jean. Perf. Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith...

Macbeth among the Gargoyles

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“Enter Macbeth.” By Steve Perry and Michael Reaves. Perf. Keith David, Jonathan Frakes, Edward Asner, and John Rhys-Davies. Gargoyles . ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Dagger Speech from Men of Respect

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Men of Respect . Dir. William Reilly. Perf. John Turturro, Katherine Borowitz, and Peter Boyle. 1991. DVD. Sony, 2003. Men of Respec...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Columbo v. Macbeth

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“Dagger of the Mind.” By Jackson Gillis. Perf. Peter Falk, Richard Basehart, John Williams, Honor Blackman, Bernard Fox, Arthur Malet, and...
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Shakespeare's Valentine

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Schoenbaum, S. Shakespeare’s Lives . New Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Each one of us should dip into Shakespeare’s ...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Kit Marlowe in the Old West

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Stagecoach . Dir. John Ford. Perf. John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, and Thomas Mitchell. 1939. DVD. Warner Home Video, 1997. I...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Hamlet: The Soliloquy in Six Syllables

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“Wayne the Zebra.” By Ben Caudell, Peter Holmes, Andrew Viner. Perf. Steve Box, Elisabeth Hadley, Andrew Jeffers, Colin Rote, and Bobby Ba...
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Shakespeare in the New(er) West

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Tombstone . Dir. George P. Cosmatos. Perf. Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer. 1993. DVD. Walt Disney Video, 1997. I suppose there's som...
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