Monday, November 29, 2010

Shakespeare and Leslie Nielsen

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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! . Dir. David Zucker. Perf. Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley and O.J. Simpson. 1988. DVD....
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Queen Elizabeth I: 17 November 1558

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Hackett, Helen. Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. According to Anne S...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Kenneth S. Rothwell (R.I.P.) and the Terminology of Shakespeare and Film

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Rothwell, Kenneth S. A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television . 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Shakespeare and Neil Gaiman

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Gaiman, Neil. The Absolute Sandman . Illus. Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli, Kelley Jones, Charles Vess, Colleen...
Monday, November 1, 2010

The Classical Actors Ensemble Presents a Tragedy by John Ford

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Ford, John. ’Tis Pity She's a Whore . Dir. Joseph Papke. Perf. Peter Aitchison, Andrew Chambers, Brandon Ewald, Koya Frye, Kate Green...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Shooting the Hero: A Shakespeare and Film Novelization

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Purser, Philip. Friedrich Harris: Shooting the Hero . London: Quartet Books, 1990. I read the first sentence, and I was hooked. Frie...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Last Season's Macbeth at the Guthrie

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Macbeth . Dir. Joe Dowling. Perf. Barbara Bryne, Isabell Monk O’Connor, Suzanne Warmanen, Raye Birk, John Skelley, Benjamin Rosenbaum, J.C...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Desdemona Under Apartheid

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Othello . Dir. Janet Suzman. Perf. John Kani, Joanna Weinberg, Richard Haines, Dorothy Ann Gould, and Stuart Brown. 1988. DVD. Arthaus ...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Othello Under Apartheid

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Othello . Dir. Janet Suzman. Perf. John Kani, Joanna Weinberg, Richard Haines, Dorothy Ann Gould, and Stuart Brown. 1988. DVD. Arthaus ...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Rare Clip of Orson Welles' "Voodoo" Macbeth

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Macbeth [a.k.a. The “Voodoo” Macbeth ]. Dir. Orson Welles. Perf. Jack Carter, Edna Thomas, Canada Lee, Maurice Ellis. Federal Theatre P...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Tom Bosley as Mr. C.; Henry Winkler as Fonzie; Fonzie as Hamlet

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“A Star is Bored.” By Garry Marshall et al. Perf. Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, and Tom Bosley. Dir. Jerry Paris. Happy Days . Season 2, e...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Global Shakespeare: Playing Shakespeare on the World Stage

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Jones, Keith. "Global Shakespeare: Playing Shakespeare on the World Stage." Lecture presented at The MacLaurin Institute: Paide...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The Evidence for Shakespeare off the Coast of Africa

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Chambers, E. K. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems . 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930. The debt we owe to ...

Word and Rite: The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works

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Batson, Beatrice, ed. Word and Rite: The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works . Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub...
Friday, October 8, 2010

Renaissance Man: Hamlet as Heartwarming?

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Renaissance Man . Dir. Penny Marshall. Perf. Danny DeVito and Gregory Hines. 1994. DVD. Walt Disney Video, 2003. On this Friday, we h...
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