Shakespeare
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Episode 523: Aaron Angello!
Episode 523 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 Aaron Angello about his new book, The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications, the creative benefits of daily ritual, writing (cough) early in the morning,… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #88: The Tragedy of Hamlet (2002)
88. Peter Brook’s The Tragedy of Hamlet, 2002. There are too many Hamlets, and I’ve had my surfeit. This blog’s at a trickle. There’s too much Shakespeare, and I don’t care anymore. When will someone make a glorious Troilus and Cressida? Peter Brook—famous for bare-bones staging—is perhaps not the most auspicious director to drag me… Continue reading
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Episode 508: Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman
Episode 508 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On today’s show, co-novelists Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman talk about corporate cults, collaborative writing, and satire. Plus The Drunken Odyssey’s video producer Shawn… Continue reading
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Episode 469: Geoffrey Kent!
Episode 469 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, I speak with the actor Geoffrey Kent about Shakespeare in performance, how actors make the texts come alive, the modern English translation… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #87: All is True (2018)
87. Kenneth Branagh’s All is True, 2018. I have a fraught relationship with Kenneth Branagh’s cinematic Shakespeare work. As an actor, he perhaps has no equal, certainly among his own generation. As a director, his indiscriminate courting of Hollywood has led to so many embarrassments. He has made more Shakespeare films than Olivier, yet as… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #86: The Merchant of Venice (1973)
86. John Sichel’s The Merchant of Venice, 1973. This isn’t the first made-for-television version of The Merchant of Venice I have reviewed, dear readers. I found it for free in its entirety on Youtube. I gave this televised antique a chance because this was, I think, Olivier’s only recorded go at Shylock. That this was… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #85: Henry IV (2018)
85. Phyllidia Lloyd’s Henry IV (Part 2 of The Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy), 2018 Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 are difficult plays to like, at least for me. Let me remind you of the plot. Henry finds the crown heavy to wear after deposing Richard II (whose play is the only Shakespeare I loathe).… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #84: Julius Caesar (2018)
84. Phyllidia Lloyd’s Julius Caesar (Part 1 of The Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy), 2018 Last time I discussed Phyllidia Lloyd’s Tempest, and I am glad I watched these out of sequence. This all-woman cast of Caesar isn’t a bad Caesar—but I do think that Caesar is not an especially strong play. Brutus is such a wet blanket,… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #82: Hamlet (1964)
82. Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev and Iosef Shapiro’s Hamlet I am not sure why I enjoyed this Russian Hamlet so much. Jaded churl that I’ve become. I have had a surfeit of Hamlet (this is my eighth for this blog), and I don’t see that Kozintsev and Shapiro’s’s gorgeous, yet understated presentation is breathtakingly original. I have no… Continue reading
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