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- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
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Tag Archives: Shakespeare
Acorn Media’s Slings & Arrows, Season 2
The first season of Slings & Arrows told the story of the New Burbage Shakespeare Festival, a Canadian theatre company not unlike Ontario’s Stratford Festival. The season was entertaining, funny, and actually pretty sexy as the new artistic director (played … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian TV, Shakespeare, television comedy
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Acorn Media’s Slings & Arrows Season 1
There are raves all over the cover of this DVD set. The New York Times calls Slings & Arrows “charming, complex, lively.” Newsday says “funny, romantic, sweet, thrilling.” And on it goes. Until I watched this DVD set I had … Continue reading
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Tagged canadian, Shakespeare, television comedy
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Laura Shamas’ We Three: The Mythology of Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters
Forest, trees: there is a certain brand of scholarship that tends to focus on minute examinations of trees in the attempt to discover a forest. I am the last to decry the idea of analyzing parts in the hope of … Continue reading
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Tagged folklore, myth, Shakespeare
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Michael Nyman’s Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs
Michael Nyman’s Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs was the result of one of those “six degrees” sorts of things, coupled with a couple years of intense focus on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. During 1990-91, Nyman was working on the score … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary music, Shakespeare
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Gareth Hinds’ King Lear
Adapting the classics to graphic novel form is an undertaking that is, as they say, “fraught with peril.” I’ve seen excellent examples, such as Gareth Hinds’ Beowulf, and those that have turned out sort of — well, mediocre. (There’s an … Continue reading
Carol Ballard’s The Greenman: The Shakespeare Connection
When I was a child — long, long ago, eons before GUIs, desktop publishing and digital cameras — I loved taking tours of historical old houses. One of the highlights of touring such old places, aside from the wonderful old … Continue reading
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Tagged Greenman imagery, Shakespeare
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Laura Shamas’ We Three: The Mythology of Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters
Forest, trees: there is a certain brand of scholarship that tends to focus on minute examinations of trees in the attempt to discover a forest. I am the last to decry the idea of analyzing parts in the hope of … Continue reading
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Tagged Shakespeare, witches
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Angela Carter’s Wise Children
It’s a wise child that knows its own father — and wiser yet the father who knows his own child. Carter’s novel draws its name from the quote above (the quote also appears as dialogue). The titular “wise children” are … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s Illyria
Elizabeth Hand’s new novel Illyria follows in a long tradition of science fiction and fantasy stories which reference the works of Shakespeare, particularly the romances, and Hand’s lyrical writing style is a wonderful fit for the dark romance she sets out to … Continue reading