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Posted in Adaptations on Jun 16th, 2007
Who knew? According to a London Times online article written by Ben Macintyre, HBO’s long-running-and-just ended mob series, The Sopranos, is “every inch a Shakespearean drama.”
Quoth he:
At the climax of a great Shakespearean drama, the once-great king surveys the ruins of his greatness. Betrayed by family and friends, most of his captains [...]
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.