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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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Ginger - Mar 05, 2010 7:58:28 am PST #11039 of 28348

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Several of Ngaio Marsh's mystery novels featuring Roderick Alleyn deal with theater productions of Shakespeare.

(As an aside, why would you ever go to the theater with Roderick Alleyn? It's like asking Jessica Fletcher over for the weekend.)

There's Forbidden Planet, of course.

The Shakespeare Lucinda reads with her Uncle Earle becomes the heart of Roller Skates, which is a truly wonderful book with one of the best explanations of tragedy ever.

There's the King and Duke in Huckleberry Finn and the St. Crispin's day reference in Buffy. In Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, Dan and Una accidentally call up Puck by performing A Midsummer Night's Dream three times at the summer solstice.

Frankenbuddha - Mar 05, 2010 7:58:58 am PST #11040 of 28348

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Thank you, I thought Burgess was right but could only come up with Meredith to go with it...

Bwahahahahaha!!!!

And now I'm suddenly thinking about FDR's influence on Meredith's Penguin.

Steph L. - Mar 05, 2010 8:00:07 am PST #11041 of 28348

this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Strange Brew!

Ahahahahaha!!! It's funny because it's true!

Barb - Mar 05, 2010 8:00:33 am PST #11042 of 28348

“Not dead yet!”

Oh, the BBC productions of The Animated Shakespeare which aired in the U.S. on HBO.

juliana - Mar 05, 2010 8:00:47 am PST #11043 of 28348

I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

And, of course, there's Pratchett - both Wyrd Sisters and Lords and Ladies use Shakespearean plots (Macbeth and Dream, respectively)

Plus, there's the 3rd story of Gaiman's Dream Country in which Titania and Oberon actually see Midsummer Night's Dream performed for them

Sue - Mar 05, 2010 8:02:22 am PST #11044 of 28348

hip deep in pie

Robert LePage did a one-person Hamlet called Elsinore.

Cashmere - Mar 05, 2010 8:02:59 am PST #11045 of 28348

Now tagless for your comfort.

1000 Acres--King Lear with incest!

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, natch.

Frankenbuddha - Mar 05, 2010 8:03:06 am PST #11046 of 28348

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Didn't Bill & Ted pick up Shakespeare?

Also, Fonzie doing Hamlet on Happy Days.

Dana - Mar 05, 2010 8:06:59 am PST #11047 of 28348

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

As an aside, why would you ever go to the theater with Roderick Alleyn? It's like asking Jessica Fletcher over for the weekend.

snork. Of course, the same goes for living near Miss Marple.

Sports Night also has a St. Crispin's Day reference, though it's not crucial to the episode. (Just to a really slashy reading.)

juliana - Mar 05, 2010 8:07:23 am PST #11048 of 28348

I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

There's also an... interesting German play called HamletMachine [link] Very German.

OH! Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth [link]

Better than either R&G are Dead or Rock 'N' Roll, in my opinion. Also why I will occasionally say "Gymshoes" in a Mr. Burns-like fashion. It's a fantastic set of plays.

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