Didn't Bill & Ted pick up Shakespeare?
Also, Fonzie doing Hamlet on Happy Days.
That's my girl... That's my good girl.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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."
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"
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.
Sue - Mar 05, 2010 8:12:45 am PST #11049 of 28348
hip deep in pie
In the Bleak MidWinter [link]
Sean K - Mar 05, 2010 8:17:51 am PST #11050 of 28348
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
The Danny DeVito movie Renaissance Man is about an English teacher teaching Shakespeare to Army recruits. Not a great movie, but it has its moments, and uses the St. Crispin's Day speech in a pivotal scene to show Shakespeare relating directly to modern day life, and demonstrate that he can still speak to us 400 years later.
Daisy Jane - Mar 05, 2010 8:21:41 am PST #11051 of 28348
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Kurosawa's Lear is called Ran I actually did a list of these for work a while back. Lemme see if I can dig it up again.
Daisy Jane - Mar 05, 2010 8:23:57 am PST #11052 of 28348
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Fron the bit o paper I found My Kingdom=Lear, My Own Private Idaho=Henry IV, Scotland, PA=McBeth
Frankenbuddha - Mar 05, 2010 8:26:18 am PST #11053 of 28348
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
There was an off-Broadway play back in the late sixties called MacBird! that had LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson as Macbeth and Mrs. (and JFK in the Duncan role).
Daisy Jane - Mar 05, 2010 8:33:04 am PST #11054 of 28348
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
BTW there is a 2009 Macbeth with Anthony Stewart Head as Duncan, but I can't figure out how to get it.
Ginger - Mar 05, 2010 8:35:21 am PST #11055 of 28348
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Star Trek was riddled with Shakespeare, both in quotations and titles, plus plays were used directly in such episodes as "The Conscience of the King" and "Catspaw."
The hero of Heinlein's Have Spacesuit, Will Travel saves the world with Shakespeare quotations.