Isn't Sons of Anarchy basically Hamlet on motorcycles?
Don't let the space bugs bite!
Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Mar 05, 2010 11:43:22 am PST #11088 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
P.M. Marc - Mar 05, 2010 11:53:38 am PST #11089 of 28344
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm shocked no one has mentioned Rave Macbeth.
Which is like Macbeth. Kind of sort of not really. Only set in Rave Culture. And starring Lex Luthor and Meg Masters!
Steph L. - Mar 05, 2010 11:55:53 am PST #11090 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Any other songs which do more than just allude to a line but rather examine a character or scene?
Indigo Girls' "Romeo and Juliet."
Beverly - Mar 05, 2010 12:02:44 pm PST #11091 of 28344
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
As an alusion, not necessarily a theme, though a point might be made for Caliban, The CBS series Beauty and the Beast had Vincent rather famously reciting Sonnet XXIX (as well as Rilke, Yeats, Wordsworth, Frost). You might want to go sound only, from about :58 to 2:01. The schmaltz is pretty thick. But I love Perlman's delivery.
Hil R. - Mar 05, 2010 12:23:10 pm PST #11092 of 28344
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The short story "The Macbeth Murder Mystery" by James Thurber.
DavidS - Mar 05, 2010 12:38:29 pm PST #11093 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's interesting the that tragedies seem to pull the most reinterpretations. Except for Midsummer Night's Dream the comedies are a bit under-exploited.
Barb - Mar 05, 2010 12:49:06 pm PST #11094 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
I think Taming of the Shrew has been reinterpreted quite a bit.
juliana - Mar 05, 2010 2:27:18 pm PST #11095 of 28344
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I think Taming of the Shrew has been reinterpreted quite a bit.
Plus, there's the amaaaaaaazing A.C.T. production from the '70s. Starring Marc Singer, and done in commedia dell'arte style. [link]
Sophia Brooks - Mar 05, 2010 2:29:43 pm PST #11096 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I saw bits and pieces of a tape of a Taming of the Shrew with Raul Jualia and Meryl Streep that I really liked. She was amazingly good at physical comedy.
juliana - Mar 05, 2010 2:32:47 pm PST #11097 of 28344
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Oh, and Moonlighting did a Shrew parody. In which Bruce Willis sang and played the harmonica. @@