Shakespeare makes life better.
On Twitter we’re discussing an apparent trend toward cutting out the Romeo/Paris confrontation at Juliet’s tomb. @WhitneyJE got us started earlier today, and it’s been going from there: What do you think? Check out the link to see the whole conversation as of this posting. Is it just an easy place to cut an unnecessary … Continue reading We’ll Always Have Paris, Or Will We?
Sometimes the book is better than the movie — even when “the book” is “the script.” I first spotted news of a Ralph Fiennes / Gerard Butler Coriolanus movie back in October 2009. Well, the movie came and went in a very limited release late in 2011 (I don’t recall it ever coming through Boston), but … Continue reading Review : Coriolanus (The Movie)
Score one for my mom, who has apparently been paying attention when I talk. A few weeks ago she handed me Arliss Ryan’s The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare , which she’d picked up at a yard sale for fifty cents. “I saw Shakespeare and thought of you,” she told me. I enjoy that this … Continue reading Review : The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare