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Posted in Adaptations, Bard bio on Dec 3rd, 2007
Directed by John Madden
Starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, and Ben Affleck
Bard-love received an unexpected shot-in-the-arm with the release of this buoyant Best Picture winner from 1998, a revisionist romantic comedy that imagines the “making-of” Romeo Juliet. The smart script by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard smoothly [...]
(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004) reviewed by Debra Murphy
A funny thing happened between the time I graduated from the University of Illinois in 1976, when I first heard the word “Semiotics” (but hadn’t a clue what it meant), and the early nineties, when I began researching Shakespeare lit [...]
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.