The Tempest
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #83: The Tempest (2019)
83. Phyllidia Lloyd’s The Tempest (Part 3 of The Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Shakespeare Trilogy), 2019 I have a fondness for prison theater. When Beckett directed a trilogy of his plays at San Quentin in 1985, he found actors who embodied his existential tragicomedies with an ease few professional actors could muster. Those productions were much Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #51: Prospero’s Books [The Tempest] (1991)
51. Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books [The Tempest] (1991) Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books is the most visionary adaptation of Shakespeare that I have ever seen, and that declaration is made with all due consideration to Julie Taymor’s amazing film of Titus Andronicus. Prospero’s Books may be the most underrated film of all time. And yet your rogue has Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #2: Death Takes a Holiday
Pensive Prowler #2 by Dmetri Kakmi Death Takes a Holiday Take death for instance. It’s pretty final. Six feet under or a crematorium. Food for worms or grey ash, scattered to the winds. There’s no coming back from that. Though some threaten to return and eat brains, none have actually kept their promise. We’re still Continue reading
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Episode 196: Joe Vincent!
Episode 196 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I interview the actor Joe Vincent, Plus John McMahon writes about how Moby Dick changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s current offerings, and use the discount code mentioned at the Continue reading
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Shakespearing #41: OST’s The Tempest
One of my articles of literary faith is that Shakespeare is the best writer who has ever lived. A related article of literary faith is that few of my writer friends quite understand this because they think Shakespeare can’t really be understood, or play in an authentic way. They think this because their curiosity has not survived trying Continue reading
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Episode 193: Mary Gaitskill!
Episode 193 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I interview fiction writer Mary Gaitskill, and share her reading from Miami Book Fair International, plus Beverly Army Williams and I discuss Mary Gaitskill’s new novel, The Mare. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Continue reading
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Shakespearing #37.1: More on The Tempest
Shakespearing #37.1 by John King The Tempest I adore The Tempest. David Foley was entirely right last week: the drama of this play is peculiarly light and strangely weighted. The wizard Prospero’s grievances seem unfathomable, and his sense of family, of relationships, is both intense, yet distant, pushed through his mind like a vicious abstraction Continue reading
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Shakespearing #37: The Tempest
Shakespearing #37 by David Foley The Tempest Sometimes it takes a production that doesn’t work to make you understand how a play does. As I re-read The Tempest, I wondered guiltily if I’d ever much liked it. Coming after Cymbeline and The Winter’s Tale, it felt tepid. Where was the drama, the deep emotion? The next Continue reading
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