Comedy
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #54: The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
54. Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew (1929) Thirty-eight years before Hollywood power-couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton captivated audiences as Katherine and Petruchio, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford did something similar. Apparently, this is the first Shakespeare film with sound, and the performances of Fairbanks and Pickford are not especially good. When their… Continue reading
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Episode 151: Greg Proops
Episode 151 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to comedian, podcaster, and now, author, Greg Proops, plus Rochelle Spencer writes about the liberating politics of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Read… Continue reading
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