Monday, June 19, 2017

Book Note: Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief

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Vogel, Paula. Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief . New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1994. I came across this play only recently, but...
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Monday, June 12, 2017

Book Note: Thirteenth Night

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Gordon, Alan. Thirteenth Night . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Thirteenth Night  is the first book in the Fool's Guild Myste...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Book Note: Still Star-Crossed

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Taub, Melinda. Still Star-Crossed . New York: Delacorte Press, 2013. The new show on ABC called Still Star-Crossed  is based on a novel of...
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Thursday, May 25, 2017

Dorothy L. Sayers and William J. Shakespeare

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Sayers, Dorothy L. Have His Carcase . New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1993. ———. The Five Red Herrings . New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1993. I...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

"And tomorrow and": A Shakespeare-Related Sci-Fi Short Story

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Roberts, Adam. "And tomorrow and." Adam Robots: Short Stories . Gollancz: London, 2013. 206-21. An attentive reader called my at...
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Saturday, May 20, 2017

Book Note: The Shakespeare Almanac / Shakespeare's Sonnets Registered on this Date in 1609

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Doran, Gregory. The Shakespeare Almanac . London: Hutchinson, 2009. Shakespeare Geek asked me if I'd ever seen this volume.  I hadn...
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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Piñeiro's Hermia & Helena

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Hermia & Helena . Dir.  Matías Piñeiro. Perf. Agustina Muñoz, María Villar, Mati Diop.  Trapecio Cine, Ravenser Odd, and Cinema Conserva...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Fodor's Hamlet: Not Just Another Ghost Story

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Hamlet . Dir. Alexander Fodor. Perf. Wilson Belchambers, Lydia Piechowiak (as Polonia), Alan Hanson, and Tallulah Sheffield. 2007. DVD. ...
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Friday, April 21, 2017

A Return to Slings & Arrows for a Thematic Overview of Macbeth

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“Rarer Monsters.” By Susan Coyne and Bob Martin. Dir. Peter Wellington. Perf. Martha Burns, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, Mark McKinney, Oliver ...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Shakespeare in The [American] Office

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"Free Family Portrait Studio." By B.J. Novak. Perf. Ed Helms and Catherine Tate. Dir. Greg Daniels.  The Office . Season 8, episod...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Trevor Noah and Shakespeare

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Trevor Noah: African American . Dir. Ryan Polito. Perf. Trevor Noah. DVD.  Inception Media Group, 2013. At the 2017 Shakespeare Associatio...
Monday, April 3, 2017

More Shakespeare, Jack Benny, and Ronald Coleman

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"Jack's Scrapbook." The Jack Benny Program . CBS. 16 January 1949. Radio. A Shakespeare scholar on one of the LISTSERVs to w...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

A Bit More Shakespeare in Pearls Before Swine

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Pastis, Stephen. King of the Comics: A Pearls Before Swine Collection . Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2015. We've occasionally seen Pea...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Book Note: Fakespeare in the Park

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Soria, Gabe. Fakespeare in the Park . New York?: Cartoon Network Books, 2016. I'm pretty much utterly nonplussed about this volume. I ...
Friday, March 17, 2017

Book Note: Shylock is my Name

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Jacobson, Howard. Shylock is my Name: William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold . London: Hogarth Shakespeare, 2016. On the ...