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Even if you don't believe that he wrote all those plays let's talk about his best film adaptations and anything else William Shakespearean.
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Richard III 10 Replies
This odd version of Richard III (1983), produced by the BBC, is highly regarded as one of the best on film. Speaking of the BBC productions, a lively summary of the entire catalog…Continue
Started by Ando. Last reply by Nerves Apr 29.
Titus Andronicus 2 Replies
Titus Andronicus is a tragedy co-authored, possibly, with George Peele and believed to…Continue
Started by Ando. Last reply by Nerves Apr 27.
Comedy of Errors 1 Reply
Perhaps the first screwball comedy. Not sure if I want to see a production of this but here's the BBC production from the 80's:Continue
Started by Nerves. Last reply by Ando Apr 25.
Richard II 3 Replies
Unusual for Shakespeare, Richard II is written almost entirely in verse. The play…Continue
Started by Ando. Last reply by Ando Apr 21.
Shakespeare's Histories 8 Replies
As the long lost Sevorin remarked, Shakespeare's "Histories" are highly edited, re-interpreted accounts of the warring houses of Lancaster and York, taken primarily from …Continue
Started by Ando. Last reply by Ando Apr 18.
Hamlet 37 Replies
Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential…Continue
Started by Ando. Last reply by Ando Apr 9.
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Comment by Ando on May 13, 2012 at 11:13am -
Huh? James Cagney doing Shakespeare? And a very hot Olivia de Havilland as Hermia. Max Reinhardt/William Dieterle's 1935 film treatment of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Comment by Ando on May 10, 2012 at 6:59am
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Tim Curry makes a credible turn as Shakespeare in this 1978 television production of John Mortimer's Life of Shakespeare. But it's the rough and tumble world of theatrical life during the late reign of Elizabeth I that is the most fascinating aspect of the series - and, of course, the wigs:
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Comment by Sevorin on May 2, 2012 at 1:50am -
A friend of mine -- who couldn't tell Shakespeare from Shaw -- saw Olivier do Shylock on stage in London. For years afterwards he kept repeating, "Three thousand ducats," whenever we discussed money.
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Comment by Ando on May 1, 2012 at 10:48pm
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A curious but welcome find: Laurence Olivier as Shylock, The Jew and Joan Plowright as Portia in a John Sichel/Jonathan Miller production ofThe Merchant of Venice, set in the 19th century.
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Comment by Sevorin on April 23, 2012 at 11:14pm
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Comment by Ando on April 23, 2012 at 11:00pm
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One of the virtues of the 1961 production (below) is the inclusion of the "equivocator" portion of the Porter speech (which often gets cut in film treatments of the play). I was thinking this hours before I encountered the following Shapiro clip -
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Comment by Ando on April 23, 2012 at 5:05pm
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Members of The RSC (including Patrick Stewart) discuss Shylock, fromThe Merchant of Venice.
Al Pacino's turn in the Michael Radford film (2004).
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Comment by Ando on April 23, 2012 at 12:54am
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Bacon, anyone? (Yeah, that's Firth, Sev.)
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Comment by Sevorin on April 23, 2012 at 12:25am
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I would have posted a happy-birthday if you had not.
(Is that Colin Firth playing Shakespeare?)
(Atkinson pisses me off anyway. I detest the Black Adder shit generally and him in particular -- though I agree with his remark about Branagh's four-hour Hamlet.)
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Comment by Ando on April 23, 2012 at 12:12am
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448 today. And no Google tribute. Bunch of Oxfordians, no doubt.
Happy Birthday, Will.
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