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Do Shakespeare plays make the perfect rom-com IP? Thus asks Entertainment Weekly, riding the wave of Shakespeare articles let by the success of Sydney Sweeney’s Anyone But You. This is what I’ve been saying! So glad to see similar thinking. I’ve written several times that I was pleasantly surprised to find the amount of Shakespeare … Continue reading Say It Louder For The People In The Back

Saying something is cringe is cringe, old man. Bea, Anyone But You This interview with Will Gluck, director of Much Ado About Nothing adaptation Anyone But You, caught my attention for all the wrong reasons. The director “breaks his silence” over the “Shakespeare cringe scenes.” Shakespeare is the cringe part? Really? This is a movie … Continue reading I Don’t Think Shakespeare is the Cringe Part

When I heard that Sir Ian McKellen was doing Hamlet, I was cautiously optimistic. Sometimes they film these things, after all. Then I heard it was filmed! I was elated. But then they did this weird “one night only” thing, and only in the UK. I never heard another word about it. Now, however, the … Continue reading Ralph Fienne’s Macbeth in Cinema

For as long as I’ve been doing this, people have wanted to discuss whether Shakespeare was gay. And Christopher Marlowe (although I think there’s more agreement there). Then there’s the debate about whether half the individual characters in Shakespeare’s works were trying to tell us something. But I seem to have ultimately missed the idea … Continue reading King James I Was Gay? How Did I Miss This?