All posts tagged "William Shakespeare"
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Blog-Theater
Hamlet, starring Michael Sheen at the Young Vic, London
February 22, 2023The psychiatric setting also forces – or helps – the production into a particular vision of...
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Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Is Inspired by Shakespeare
January 25, 2023The weekly listicle looks at movies inspired by Shakespeare while not being based on Shakespeare.
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Movies
Th3 W33kly Listicl3: R3sp3ct3 Th3 Thr33
January 15, 2023The Weekly Listicle looks at non-sequel movies with three in the title.
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Blog-Theater
Target Margin Theater’s The Tempest
December 8, 2022The production focuses its energies on exposing its illusion-making apparatuses to such an extent that the...
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Biography
Book Review: How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
October 25, 2022Born nearly five hundred years ago, Montaigne was one of the last great thinkers of the...
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Biography
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
September 17, 2022Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
September 11, 2022I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
August 2, 2022"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
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Blog-Theater
NYC Fringe Report: Murder and Mayhem, California Style
March 30, 2022East Coasters rarely think of Los Angeles as a great theater town. But, as two ambitious...
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Humor
Much Ado About Joss Whedon
December 3, 2021Is Joss Whedon's biggest year ever taking a second lap?