I wound up doing a bit of early Christmas shopping this weekend, but as I did that shopping in a bookstore, I didn’t escape without also buying something for myself: Balancing Acts, Nicholas Hytner’s new memoir about being artistic director of the National Theatre in London (which came out in the UK earlier in the year, but has just come out here ( Read more... )

Michelle Terry: 'I won't be directing while at Shakespeare's Globe'http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/michelle-terry-shakespeare-globe-no-directing_44417.htmlRead more... )

(I had to use this icon. I mean, Shakespeare and witches, on TV?)

My best friend sent me a screencap of this article the other day, but I didn't have a chance to go looking for it until now:

Mark Harmon Developing Young William Shakespeare Drama for CWRead more... )

Buh what?
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2014/apr/23/shakespeare-in-love-450th-birthday-video

You all know that I adore Shakespeare in Love, and part of that is precisely for the reason that James Shapiro gives in this ( Read more... )

I feel a bit like I’m going “Why does it hurt when I poke myself in the eye?,” but Becoming Jane is still irritating me. A few brief things, and then the major one:

1) I’m not sure why I’m supposed to like Tom Lefroy when he’s actually a bit mean. In the interest of full disclosure, I really like Laurence Fox because of Inspector Lewis, so I’m ( Read more... )

I wound up watching The Thirteenth Warrior this morning/afternoon instead of doing anything useful. I don't actually think it was a particularly *good* movie, but it was much better than its advertising suggested. Also, as you may know, I am a sucker for things that foreground the issues of language and translation in historical contexts (see my " ( Read more... )

This afternoon, instead of doing anything useful, I listened to the cast and crew commentary on the Shakespeare in Love DVD, which I'd never heard before. (I've had the movie on VHS since pretty much the day it came out, but I just bought the DVD last month when it was on sale.) Anyway, much enjoyment was had, except for a couple of things ( Read more... )

The film Elizabeth will never be the same now that I've seen the first season of the new Doctor Who. I was fine with the Elizabeth/Shakespeare in Love crossover with both Joseph Fiennes and Geoffrey Rush, but I can't seem to handle the presence of Christopher Eccleston as Norfolk. I keep constructing these bizarre alternate versions in which ( Read more... )