Tom Stoppard
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #7: Shakespeare in Love (1998)
#7: Shakespeare in Love (1998) Sooner or later, we had to talk about Shakespeare in Love. This is kind of the British version of a Hollywood-does-Shakespeare treatment. Joseph Fiennes, brother to Ralph Fiennes, plays Shakespeare. Rupert Everett plays the playright Philip Marlow. Judi Dench plays an imperious Queen Elizabeth. Simon Callow plays the Master of Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #6: The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (1995)
#6: The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (1995) Tom Stoppard turned Hamlet inside out in his Post-modernization of Shakespeare’s most famous play. The ways in which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are more about us than about Shakespeare or the Elizabethans is mostly subtle, with the suggestion that modernity is an accident of human evolution, and that our fates, Continue reading
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