So I spent an hour yesterday squeaking at my television in delight about David Tennant's face, and so cannot possibly evaluate the Hamlet episode objectively. (He geeked out over the Bad Quarto, you guys! How do I resist that?) The Tempest episode mainly made me want to watch the Taymor film, which I have so far not been inclined to do. (I also ( Read more... )

(I am a book-zombie, apparently.)

Today I totally frittered, and I feel much the better for it, although I will have to pay for it tomorrow. I did have an errand or two to run, actually; it's just that these errands were nearer to bookstores than is always a good idea for me ( Read more... )

Having now seen both the Jarman Tempest and Prospero's Books (did I know Mark Rylance was in this, and just forgot?), I have to ask: is there something about The Tempest that suggests loads of random nudity? Because I'm not really seeing it.

From the RSC Shakespeare feed: Ben Whishaw is playing Ariel in Julie Taymor's production of The Tempesthttp://palgrave.typepad.com/rsc/2010/04/new-volumes-new-movies.htmlRead more... )

So I did not just spend a surreptitious hour in the department computer lab watching "The Shakespeare Code" through slightly illicit means, after doing the same thing last night with "Smith & Jones." Because that would be wrong. But if I had, then this is what I would say:

( Really? Only 57 academics? )