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Porn adaptations

sveskemus — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:06:30 -0800

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Now With Hot Girl-on-Girl Action. [NSFW!] Also, The Pound of Flesh [NSFW], on Shakespeare Porn.

Twas mine, tis his, and has been slave to thousands

Horace Rumpole — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:48:09 -0800

How did this man end of with a copy of the most iconic book in the English language? He says he got it from a friend in Cuba, but the Folger Library has identified it as the copy of Shakespeare's First Folio stolen from Durham University in 1988. Turns out that stealing the book is much easier than selling it.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Kattullus — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:40:34 -0800

William Shakespeare wrote some of the world's finest sonnets. The website shakespeares-sonnets.com is a fine place to start delving into the poems. Here you can see scans of the first edition of The Sonnets as printed by Thomas Thorpe in 1609. If you wish there were more sonnets by Shakespeare, your jones might be eased by the Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up, which lets you remix them according to taste. And finally there's Shakespeare in Tune, a site where Jonathan Willby recites each of the 154 sonnets following a short improvisation on a German flute.

Not where he eats, but where he is eaten

cerebus19 — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:24:22 -0800

Coming soon, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, probably the first movie to combine Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard, and vampires. It is, however, not the first time The Bard and the undead have been seen together. The movie, incidentally, stars Dustin Hoffman's son Jake, Ralph Macchio (no, really!), and the guy who played Artie on "The Sopranos". The score is being written by Sean Lennon.

Shakespeare and philosophy

painquale — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:38:38 -0800

Martha Nussbaum reviews three recent books on Shakespeare and philosophy. The essay offers an excellent analysis of love in Antony and Cleopatra and Othello, and an excellent discussion of the interaction between philosophy and literature. From the essay: "To make any contribution worth caring about, a philosopher's study of Shakespeare should do three things. First and most centrally, it should really do philosophy, and not just allude to familiar philosophical ideas and positions. It should pursue tough questions and come up with something interesting and subtle--rather than just connecting Shakespeare to this or that idea from Philosophy 101. A philosopher reading Shakespeare should wonder, and ponder, in a genuinely philosophical way. Second, it should illuminate the world of the plays, attending closely enough to language and to texture that the interpretation changes the way we see the work, rather than just uses the work as grist for some argumentative mill. And finally, such a study should offer some account of why philosophical thinking needs to turn to Shakespeare's plays, or to works like them. Why must the philosopher care about these plays? Do they supply to thought something that a straightforward piece of philosophical prose cannot supply, and if so, what?" There is some discussion of the piece here.

Pulp Shakespeare

2or3whiskeysodas — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:48:30 -0800

from ACT I SCENE 4

J: Your pardon; did I break thy concentration?
Continue! Ah, but now thy tongue is still.
Allow me then to offer a response.
Describe Marsellus Wallace to me, pray. Your turn. [via boingboing. sort of, although weirdly they link not to the original author's LJ but to the LJ of someone quoting him]

The Case for the First Folio

feelinglistless — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:42:42 -0800

The Case for the First Folio For centuries, editors of Shakespeare's plays have conflated different published editions (quartos and folios) in an attempt to create one true text as the writer intended. In this essay (.pdf file) Jonathan Bate, one of the editors of The RSC Shakespeare makes the case that in fact what they're doing is editing together different drafts of the play originated by the bard at different times in his life attempting to make better dramatic sense. Essentially that none of the texts you studied at school are what Shakespeare intended to be performed at all. It's a very long essay but there are many wonderful revelations; my favourite is probably that the popular girl's name Imogen is a textual error created by a compositor when putting together an edition of the play 'Cymbeline' having misread the double 'n' in Innogen, a character name which also turns up in Much Ado About Nothing. Sorry Imogens.

Is this a +2 dagger I see before me?

BitterOldPunk — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:43:18 -0800

Arden: The World of William Shakespeare is a Neverwinter Nights mod created by the Synthetic Worlds Initiative at Indiana University. You can play it, but it's kinda boring.

Much Ado About Shakespeare

crossoverman — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:27:08 -0800

BBC/HBO to film all 37 of Shakespeare's plays Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes will produce the entire canon over 12 years.

Symmetry. Shakespeare. Islamic medicine. Creative writing challenges.

Wolfdog — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:28:17 -0800

Symmetry. Shakespeare. Islamic medicine. Creative writing challenges. Four podcast series from University of Warwick.