Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Book Note: Shakespeare's Common Prayers

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Swift, Daniel. Shakespeare's Common Prayers: The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 20...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Book Note: Death at the Dolphin

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Marsh, Ngaio. Death at the Dolphin . Glasgow: William Collins Sons, 1967. Also available as  Killer Dolphin . New York: Amereon, 1983...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Book Note: Joker

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Ranulfo. Joker .  New York:  HarperTeen, 2006. A much more interesting Hamlet novel—more interesting than Hamlet: A Novel  (for which, ...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Book Note: Hamlet: A Novel

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Marsden, John. Hamlet: A Novel . Somerville: Candlewick, 2008. I've been very torn about this book. For some, this is their entrée...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Shakespeare in The Lion King—And, No, it's not the Hamlet Stuff

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The Lion King . Dir. Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff. Perf. Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, and James Earl Jones. 1994. Walt D...

Book Note: The Madman of Venice

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Masson, Sophie. The Madman of Venice . New York: Ember, 2012. I'm preparing to teach a course entitled "Modern Shakespearean Ficti...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

A New Tempest—Somewhat after the Manner of Looking for Richard

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Tempest . Dir. Rob Curry and  Anthony Fletcher . Perf. Mitchell Bonsra, Paris Campbell, Kieran Edwards, Charlotte Gallagher, Afra Morris...
Friday, October 19, 2012

William Shakespeare in “Peabody’s Improbable History” (from The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show)

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“The Last Angry Moose, Part Two / A Punch in the Snoot or The Nose Tattoo.” By George Atkins, Chris Hayward, Chris Jenkins, and Lloyd Turne...
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Friday, October 12, 2012

Book Note: Falling For Hamlet

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Ray, Michelle. Falling for Hamlet . New York: Hachette, 2011. Falling for Hamlet is a novel that resets Hamlet in a modern era and t...
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Thursday, October 11, 2012

On Shakespeare's "Christian" Sonnet, Its Hymn Tune, and the Wonder of Librarians

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Songs of Praise: Enlarged Edition: With Tunes . Words ed. Percy Dearmer. Music eds. Ralph Vaughan Williams and Martin Shaw. Oxford: Ge...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Shakespearean Wong-Baker

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Wong, Donna, and Connie Baker. "Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale." Wong-Baker FACES Foundation . Originally published in Whale...
Friday, August 17, 2012

The Tempest in the Closing Ceremony

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Spall, Timothy. "Be not afeard." By William Shakespeare. Closing Ceremony. Olympics, London, 2012. Dir. Kim Gavin. 12 August 2012....
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Shakespeare in Clueless

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Clueless . Dir. Amy Heckerling. Perf. Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Paul Rudd, and Brittany Murphy. 1995. DVD. Paramount , 2005. Cl...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Friends and Lady Macbeth

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"The One with the Tiny T-Shirt." By Adam Chase. Perf. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry,...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Hamlet's Father's Ghost's Speech in Paramount's Star Trek's Troi's Revenge

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Star Trek: Nemesis [a.k.a. Star Trek X ]. Dir. Stuart Baird. Perf. Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina S...