Wednesday, June 18, 2014

A Touch of Julius Caesar in Aladdin

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Aladdin . Dir.  Ron Clements and John Musker. Perf. Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, and Linda Larkin. 1992. DVD. Walt Disney Video, 2004. ...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Shakespeare Festival St. Louis Presents 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, and Henry V

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1 Henry IV  and  2 Henry IV . Dir. Tim Ocel. Henry V . Dir. Bruce Longworth. Perf. Jim Butz, Anderson Matthews, Gary Glasgow, Joneal Jopl...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Does Percy Jackson Like Shakespeare?

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief . Dir. Chris Columbus. Perf. Logan Lerman, Kevin McKidd, Steve Coogan . 2010. DVD. ...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Uhura and Chekov in Antony and Cleopatra?

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Anthony and Cleopatra . Dir. Lawrence Carra. Perf. James Avery, Sharon Barr, Michael Billington, Timothy Dalton, Lynn Redgrave,  John Ca...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Three Days of Hamlet: A Documentary

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Three Days of Hamlet . Dir. Alex Hyde-White. Perf. Alex Hyde-White, Tom Badal, Richard Chamberlain, Iva Hasperger, Stefanie Powers,Chuma H...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

An Early FoxTrot with Shakespearean Overtones

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Amend, Bill. The Best of FoxTrot . Andrews McMeel: Kansas City, 2010. I've always adored FoxTrot. Bill Amend does marvelous things w...
Friday, May 2, 2014

Motocrossed: A Twelfth Night Derivative that Predates She's the Man

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Motocrossed . Dir. Steve Boyum. Perf. Alana Austin, Trever O'Brien, Riley Smith. 2001. Videocassette. Walt Disney Video, 2002. I h...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Celebrate Shakespeare's 450th Birthday with a Forty-Five-Second Film Festival Contest

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"Shakespeare 450th Birthday 45-second Film Festival Contest." St. Paul Pioneer Press . Due by noon on 21 April 2014. This seem...
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Monday, March 31, 2014

Cockatoo Paraphrases Hamlet in Rio 2

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Rio 2 . Dir. Carlos Saldanha. Perf. Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, Jemaine Clement, and Kristin Chenoweth. 2014. Twentieth C...
Friday, March 28, 2014

An Odd Approach to Romeo and Juliet in Orange County

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Orange County . Dir. Jake Kasdan. Perf. Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk, John Lithgow, Lily Tomlin, George Murdock,  Mike White,  ...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Book Note: Romeo and Juliet in Asterix

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Uderzo, Albert. Asterix and the Great Divide [ Les Grand Fossee ]. Trans. Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. London: Orion Books, 2001. ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Book Note: Tower of the Five Orders

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Hicks, Deron R. Tower of the Five Orders . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. I just finished reading the second book in the Shakesp...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Benedict Cumberbatch as Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead . Perf. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch. Selection from National Theatre: 50 Years ...

Book Note: The Truth About William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction, and Modern Biographies

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Ellis, David. The Truth About William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction, and Modern Biographies . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Book Note: Grace Tiffany's Will: A Novel

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Tiffany, Grace. Will: A Novel . New York: Berkley, 2004. No real surprises await in Grace Tiffany's Will: A Novel , but it's...