Shakespeare
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Episode 402: A Craft Discussion of T.S. Elliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” and “Hamlet and Its Problems”!
Episode 402 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.) This week, Vanessa Blakeslee and I assail more essays on the craft of literature, this time two by T.S. Eliot. TEXTS DISCUSSED “Hamlet and Its Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #81: The Merchant of Venice (1972)
81. Cedric Messina’s The Merchant of Venice So Maggie Smith portrayed Portia in a 1972 BBC production ofThe Merchant of Venice, and since this wasn’t part of the BBC’s dreadful complete Shakespeare project (which looks as if Roger Corman directed it), I thought it safe to venture my eyes and ears on it. This Merchant was Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #80: Filming ‘Othello’
80. Orson Welles’s Filming ‘Othello’ I’ve neglected this blog for nearly a year, dear readers. I had suffered a surfeit of Shakespeare, something I didn’t think was possible. Fucking Hamlet again, I would think. Why? I mean, why? So far, I have reviewed seven films of Hamlet. Some of them are great, but I may Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #79: 10 Things I Hate About You [The Taming of the Shrew] (1999)
79. Gil Younger’s 10 Things I Hate About You [The Taming of the Shrew] (1999) Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare’s only story fixated on teenagers in love, but Karen McCullah and Kristen Smith adapted The Taming of the Shrew to do so. Shrew is one of Shakespeare’s most outrageous plays. (It’s the comedy equivalent of Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #78: O [Othello] (2001)
78. Tim Blake Nelson’s O [Othello] (2001) This nugget of a film fell between the cracks of the art house crowd and the teenagers who went to see Save the Last Dance, The Princess Diaries, and Final Destination. Admittedly, the premise didn’t seem promising: set Othello in a prep school with the tragic hero being Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #77: King Lear (2018)
77. Richard Eyre’s King Lear (2018) I basically hate Macbeth, and I like Lear even fucking less than that, sweet reader, but when the BBC released a film of the elderly tragedy starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, my hand was obviously forced into watching it. As I’ve said before, in Lear “There’s a lot Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #76: National Theatre Live: Hamlet
75. Robin Lough’s National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015) My recent thesis, that successful stage productions should just be filmed rather than adapted for a purely cinematic version, isn’t being born out as well as I had hoped, even if The National Theatre Live’s 2015 version of Hamlet sparkles with greatness. “If thou hast nature in Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #75: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2000)
75. Paul Kafno’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2005) Normally, dear readers, cute middlebrow approaches to Shakespeare fill my heart with hate, so I was aggravated when a friend of mine just gave me a copy of The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). The good news is that the Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #74: Hamlet (2015)
74. Margaret Williams’s film of Sarah Frankcom’s stage version of Hamlet (2015) The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester’s gender-bending production film of its stage version Hamlet makes me dwell on this passage: Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #73: King Lear (2008)
73. Trevor Nunn’s King Lear (2008) I’ve taken a few months off my Shakespeariation, dear readers. I presume if you are reading this blog, you want to know which films to seek out, which to avoid due to being fatally boring, and which ones are weird enough to huff some glue to watch. Well, the Continue reading
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