Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Happy Baptism Day, Shakespeare!

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Orlin, Lena Cowen.  The Private Life of William Shakespeare . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. We don't know Shakespeare's bir...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Shakespeare's in The Good Place!

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"Whenever You're Ready." By Michael Schur. Perf. Kristen Bell, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, D'Arcy Carden, Manny...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

The Tiniest Possible Reference to Shakespeare in Outside Providence

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Outside Providence . Dir. Michael Corrente. Perf. Shawn Hatosy, Amy Smart, George Wendt, and Alec Baldwin. 1999. DVD. Miramax, 2000. And som...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

2 Henry VI and Othello Make Brief Appearances in WRKP

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"Three Days of the Condo." By Lissa Levin. Perf. Gary Sandy, Gordon Jump, Loni Anderson, Richard Sanders, Frank Bonner, Jan Smithe...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Book Note: Hamlet: Globe to Globe

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Dromgoole, Dominic. Hamlet: Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play . New York: Grove Press, 2017. I read this boo...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Just One of the Guys as a Derivative of Twelfth Night?

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Just One of the Guys . Dir. Lisa Gottlieb. Perf. Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, and Billy Jayne. 1985. DVD. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Was Twelfth Night Performed on an East India Company Voyage between 1607 and 1610?

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Barbour, Richmond. The Third Voyage Journals: Writing and Performance in the London East India Company, 1607-10 . New York: Palgrave, 2009. ...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Nunn's Twelfth Night: Meh.

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Twelfth Night . Dir. Trevor Nunn. Perf. Imogen Stubbs, Rod Culbertson, Sydney Livingstone, Toby Stephens, Rita Connolly, Nicholas Farrell, I...
Friday, April 8, 2022

Twelfth Night: A Relatively-Sour Malvolio

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Twelfth Night . Dir. Kenneth Branagh. Produced and Directed for Television by Paul Kafno. Perf. Frances Barber, Christopher Hollis, Julian G...
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Twelfth Night: Right Ho, Malvolio

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Twelfth Night . Dir. Tim Carroll. Perf. Samuel Barnett, Liam Brennan, Paul Chahidi, John Paul Connolly, Johnny Flynn, Stephen Fry, James Gar...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Twelfth Night: These aren't the MOAIs you're looking for . . .

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Twelfth Night . Dir. John Sichel. Perf. Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright, Tommy Steele, Ralph Richardson, John Moffatt, Gary Raymond, and Adrie...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Book Note: The Three-Text Hamlet

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Shakespeare, William. The Three-Text Hamlet: Parallel Texts of the First and Second Quartos and First Folio . Ed. Bernice W. Kliman and Paul...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Let's Barley-Break!

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Fletcher, John, and William Shakespeare. The Two Noble Kinsmen . Ed. Lois Potter. Walton-on-Thames: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1997.   Midleto...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Book Note: Ozymandias and Other Stories

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Palmer, Jim. "In Fair Verona."  Ozymandias and Other Stories . St. Louis: Power Publishing, 2004. 29-65. I got this collection for...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Der Yidisher Kenig Lir (The Jewish King Lear)

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Kaplan, Beth. Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin . Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2012.   A clue on J...