Back from Hamlet ( Read more... )

I'm heading off to Stratford tonight! Hamlet here I come. Which means radio silence from me for the duration of the weekend (even more so than usual ( Read more... )

Discuss the relationship between power, obedience and spectatorship in Henry V and Hamlet.

My Shakespeare exam. Ah, we'll see. SO MUCH to say, so little time.

How much did I love the Shakespeare Code? ( A whole hell of a lot is how much. Verily, forsooth, yegads. )

( I do not ramble about Romeo and Juliet, I ramble about Romeo + Juliet. So it's not really an obsession. Ha! )

( My notes on 'The Passionate Oxymoron' - on stylistic excesses and excessive style in Romeo and Juliet, by René Girard. )

"Shakespeare and Excess" was the theme of the annual congress of the SFS - the French Shakespeare Society. That's where I met Brian Cox, people. Who is an amazing person, on top of a fantastic actor, I cannot stress this enough. (Notice how I'm not capslocking? Go me ( Read more... )

Title: To the end of reckoning
Fandom: Shakespeare in Love
Rating: R
Warnings: slash. Also, complete mangling of talented writers such as Shakespeare and Marlowe. Less well done than in the film, I'd wager.
Summary: set after the film. Said film was about theatre, this is about writing. And hot guys taking off their doublets and jerkins and hoses ( Read more... )

Review time, now that we've watched all four.

( The Taming of the Shrew. )

Just because I need to share: have received Casanova and Shakespeare Retold! Have rewatched the first episode of Casanova and oh how I love it and David Tennant and Laura and Rupert and the rest of them too. ...I just reread myself and realised that that "Rupert" would likely make everybody go "Everett?" when in fact, no, Penry-Jones ( Read more... )