Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Spaghetti Shakespeare: Contemporary Review of Johnny Hamlet

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" Johnny Hamlet ." Review of Johnny Hamlet , dir. Enzo G. Castellari. Variety 10 May 1972: 20+. As thrilled as I am by the p...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Book Note: The Dead Fathers Club

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Haig, Matt. The Dead Fathers Club . New York: Penguin, 2006. I finished reading this a little to late for it to form part of the discuss...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Langston Hughes and Shakespeare

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Hughes, Langston. "Shakespeare in Harlem."  Shakespeare in Harlem . Illus. E. McKnight Kauffer. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1942. 111...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Guthrie Theatre (2015)

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream . Dir. Joe Dowling and David Bolger. Perf. Jay Albright, Darius Barnes, Joe Bigelow, Nicholas Carriere, Eleonore...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Book Note: I am Shakespeare

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Rylance, Mark. I am Shakespeare . London: Nick Hern Books, 2012. This play contains Rylance's theory that someone else wrote the pla...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Book Note: The Young Reader's Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

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McKeown, Adam. The Young Reader's Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet . Illus. Peter Fiore. New York: Sterling, 2003. While trying to track...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Romeo and Juliet in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

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"What is Love?" By Carl Binder. Perf. Jane Seymour, Joe Lando, and Chad Allen. Dir. Daniel Attias. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman . S...

Book Note: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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Rosen, Michael. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . Illus. Jane Ray. Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2004. I don't often run across a ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Book Note: Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? Puts the Authorship Question to Rest in a Different Way

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Shahan, John M. and Alexander Waugh. Shakespeare Beyond Doubt?: Exposing an Industry in Denial . Tamarac: Llumina Press, 2013. By way ...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

Book Note: Shakespeare Beyond Doubt Puts the Authorship Question to Rest

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Edmondson, Paul, and Stanley Wells, eds. Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Orson Welles and Lucille Ball do Romeo and Juliet

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"Lucy Meets Orson Welles." By Madelyn Martin; Bob Carroll, Jr.; Bob Schiller; and Bob Weiskopf. Perf. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, ...
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Monday, March 2, 2015

Spaghetti Shakespeare Number One: Johnny Hamlet

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Johnny Hamlet [ Quella Sporca Storia nel West (a.k.a. That Dirty Story of the West ; a.k.a. Django )]. Dir. Enzo G. Castellari. Perf. ...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

A tiny fragment of Shakespeare in Darwin: The Series

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Darwin: The Series . By Karl Kenzler [Episodes 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] and Lynn Rosen [Episodes 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12]. Dir. Carrie Preston [Episo...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Warm Bodies: Now with the Balcony Scene from Romeo and Juliet

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Warm Bodies . Dir. Jonathan Levine. Perf. Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, and John Malkovich. 2013. DVD. Summit Entertainment, 2013. Som...
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Friday, February 6, 2015

A Return to Prince of the Himalayas

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Prince of the Himalayas [ Ban dao yin xiang ; a.k.a. Ximalaya wangzi ]. Dir. Sherwood Hu. Perf. Purba Rgyal, Dobrgyal, Zomskyid, Sonamdol...
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