I ask because the Folger Shakespeare Library dropped a link to this podcast interview with Craig Pierce and Shekhar Kapur, where they talk about creating the new TV show Will, into my inbox this morning ( Read more... )

Young William Shakespeare TNT Pilot ‘Will’ Casts Lead, Shekhar Kapur To Direct

http://bit.ly/1OEq65M

(Deadline is marked as spam on LJ, so I hope this will get around it)

*runs in singing 'I hate everything about this paragraph, la la la'*

Elizabeth helmer Shekhar Kapur is directing the pilot ( Read more... )

I have a really hard time reading or watching things about the plague. (When my friend and I went to the Museum of London in August, we were practically the only people who didn't stop to watch the video about the Black Death ( Read more... )

That's it, Ron Rosenbaum. The Shakespeare Wars and I are through. Seriously.

I sat through the needless slams on academia, your weird obsession with Peter Brook, your ridiculous idea that people use theory to protect them from the unbearable instability at the heart of close-reading (um, because, what?), your self-aggrandizing throughout the book ( Read more... )