ShakespeaRe-Told : Shakespeare on Television

Although I've just missed the first episode (curse me for being so far behind in my posting!), I see that BBC America is doing a 4part, very modern retelling of Much Ado (last night's), Macbeth, Midsummer, and Taming of the Shrew. By very modern, I mean very -- Much Ado casts Beatrice and Benedick as co-anchors on a news program, Macbeth is about an ambitious chef taking over his boss' restaurant (haven't we discussed that one before?), Midsummer takes place at a woodsy family resort of Shrew apparently casts Kate as a ruthless female politician. Note that these productions are "inspired by", and not actual modern dress versions of the original text. But, still, could be fun.

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Returning the Favor

Since he did me the favor of a link in his post on Shakespeare Blogs (noting that Such Shakespeare Stuff seems to be the second oldest Shakespeare blog on the net!), I'll return the favor with a link to LastSyllable.net. I'm pretty sure I've linked to him a few times in the past, he certainly comes up enough on my daily blog filters. Usually his commentary is on the deeper side than we do here (right now he's reading Bloom and has commentary on Julius Caesar), but it's always quality. Recommended.

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Adaptations and Parodies of Shakespeare

Theatre Folk has an actual store where you can purchase scripts of plays adapted from Shakespeare. Titles include "Drop Dead, Juliet", "Much Ado About High School", "Mmmmbeth", and other more traditional adaptations (i..e for audience and time). All plays are safe for high school production, and seem to offer free sample pages. Cool.


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