Mere hours ago the world got its first look at the latest feature film to be adapted from Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. And oh what a first look it was… That’s right, peel your eyes away from that murderous gaze …
Category: Shakespeare
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Branagh’s Macbeth is a Wonderfully Tempestuous Production
For a brief week, the Seattle International Film Festival was able to bring Manchester International Festival’s production of Macbeth to the Uptown Theater in Seattle. As a part of a series called National Theater Live (which includes Othello with Adrian …
Rewriting Shakespeare
In yet more news of Shakespearean retellings, Random House is now set to publish a series of the Bard’s plays rewritten as prose. The RH imprint Hogarth has commissioned authors Anne Tyler and Jeanette Winterson as the first to release …
Problematic Peacocks and Other Elizabethan Era Warnings
Perhaps the reason the Virgin Queen decided to remain so is to avoid the humiliation of having one of her upstart subjects oil paint a picture of her swaddling cat in her arms…. Maybe someday there will be superstitions that …
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Violent Delights: A New Romeo and Juliet Film Coming Soon
Me, an hour ago on Tumblr: Scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll… Wait. What’s this? Yep. It’s time for a new cinematic interpretation of the Ultimate Forbidden Love. It’s been seventeen years, believe it or not, when the then …
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A Shakespearean Mash Up
This summer the Los Angeles based Troubadour Theater Company is reprising its role as masters of the Shakespearean mash up. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you A Midsummer Saturday Night’s Fever Dream. You may have guessed it, though you might …
Twenty-First Century Foxes? Historical Figures Get Make Overs
The good folks over at Laughing Squid decided to give iconic historical figures updates to some pretty dated looks. C’mon, once every four hundred years or so…everyone deserves a spa day! William Shakespeare in skinny jeans? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Lord Chamberlain’s Barista? …
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Four Bizarre Theories About Shakespeare
Happy belated birthday, Shakes! Just a day late. Actually, the exact date of his birth has long been disputed. Generally, April 23, 1564, which is also St. George’s Day, is accepted as the date of the Bard’s birth, but because …