Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Various Characters from "Shake, Mr. Shakespeare"

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“Shake, Mr. Shakespeare.” Dir. Roy Mack. Perf. Carolyn Marsh, Allan Mann, William Hall, and John Bohn. 1934. A Midsummer Night’s Dream ....
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

So Many Dancing Hamlets!

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“Shake, Mr. Shakespeare.” Dir. Roy Mack. Perf. Carolyn Marsh, Allan Mann, William Hall, and John Bohn. 1934. A Midsummer Night’s Dream ....
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Shakespeare was from Texas

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Dark Command . Dir. Raoul Walsh. Perf. John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, and George “Gabby” Hayes. 1940. DVD. Mapl...
Friday, March 26, 2010

What do Billy Crystal and William Shakespeare have in Common?

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Hamlet . Dir. Kenneth Branagh. Perf. Kenneth Branagh and Billy Crystal. 1996. DVD. Castle Rock, 2007. Well, they have the first name...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Who Killed Osric in Branagh's Hamlet?

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Hamlet . Dir. Kenneth Branagh. Perf. Kenneth Branagh and Robin Williams. 1996. DVD. Castle Rock, 2007. Small epiphanies are still ep...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Is this Joe Macbeth I see before me?

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Joe Macbeth . Dir. Ken Hughes. Perf. Paul Douglas and Ruth Roman. 1955. DVD. Lear Media, n.d. I'm giving a presentation on the ques...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Beware the [Monty Python] Ides of March!

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“ Julius Caesar on an Aldis Lamp.” “The Spanish Inquisition.” By Monty Python et al. Perf. Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, T...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Shakespeare and The Little Rascals?

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Shivering Shakespeare . Dir. Robert A. McGowan. Perf. Norman “Chubby” Chaney, Bobby “Wheezer” Hutchins, and Mary Ann Jackson. 1930. The ...
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Shakespeare in What’s Happening!!?

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“The Incomplete Shakespeare.” By Mort Scharfman. Perf. Ernest Thomas, Haywood Nelson, Fred Berry, Danielle Spencer , and Mabel King. Dir....
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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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