Is anyone else watching Shakespeare Uncovered on PBS? I saw the first two episodes on Friday night (...and may have watched them again since in repeats. Shut up, it's not that often that there's Shakespeare on my television). Of course, because for some reason PBS doesn't advertise its Shakespeare offerings very well, all the commercials were only ( Read more... )

Is anyone else watching Shakespeare Uncovered on PBS? I saw the first two episodes on Friday night (...and may have watched them again since in repeats. Shut up, it's not that often that there's Shakespeare on my television). Of course, because for some reason PBS doesn't advertise its Shakespeare offerings very well, all the commercials were only ( Read more... )

You guys. Is it just me, or is the whole "Macbeth is the story of an honorable man who is corrupted by power" line really weird? I mean, in my world, guys who decide they want to kill the king after the merest hint that they might become king by doing so, for no reason but "vaulting ambition"--not so much with the "honorable." Simply having not ( Read more... )

There doesn't seem to be a proper Great Performances page for it yet, but they've at least updated with a preview (and an air date! finally!) and an interview with Patrick Stewart ( Read more... )

PBS, you know I love you, but what on EARTH is with your inability to actually advertise the Shakespeare episodes of Great Performances? Do you just not like Shakespeare? Is that it?

I went looking for the GP Hamlet site, to see if the film was still up (as it might be useful for class at some point), and found this in the comments thread:

Also ( Read more... )

1. Dear Simon Russell Beale: ILU.

"You know, it's rather embarrassing to admit this, but I was watching a documentary about the effect of global warming and the imminent destruction of the planet, and my first thought was: 'What will happen to Shakespeare?'"from this review/article in the Guardian ( Read more... )

A search for possible PBS air dates for David Tennant's Hamlet pulled up the following press release, about a film version of the recent production of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart ( Read more... )

Which most of you probably are, but:

http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2008/12/personals-for-fictionally-forlorn.html

(Personal ads to characters who have met with bad ends.)

(Maybe I do need that tag for "morbidity" now?)

Taught Macbeth today. One section went well; the other section, I think, gave up on school about two weeks ago ( Read more... )