Riffing on Hamlet
So many Royal Shakespeare Company people riff on Hamlet.
“Titus in Space: Steve Bannon’s Obsession with Shakespeare’s Goriest Play”
At The Paris Review, Rex Weiner writes about Steve Bannon’s time in Hollywood and his attempts to get his adaptation of Titus Andronicus filmed. “Their first project had a working title: Andronicus. Synopsis: Titus is the leader of the Andronicii, beings of pure light who live somewhere in […]
Shakespeare by Jack Kirby
io9 has a gallery of images of Jack Kirby’s costume designs for a 1969 production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. (Thanks, Sarah!)
RIP, Menahem Golan
Producer and director Menahem Golan has died. Golan produced (and sometimes wrote and directed) many, many films including: The Delta Force (1986), Death Wish (1974), The Apple (1980), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), Missing In Action (1984), Invasion U.S.A. (1985), American Ninja (1985), Lifeforce (1985), Cobra (1986), Masters […]
Profiling Othello
Former FBI profiler (and model for Jack Crawford in Silence of the Lambs) John E. Douglas worked with Patrick Steward on understand Othello’s motivation.
“The Public Voice of Women”
Mary Beard writes about gender, speech, and the depiction of the sound of women’s voices from Homer’s time until now. “I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; […]
