I think Taming of the Shrew has been reinterpreted quite a bit.
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
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."
Barb - Mar 05, 2010 12:49:06 pm PST #11094 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
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. @@
Amy - Mar 05, 2010 3:07:41 pm PST #11098 of 28344
Because books.
Did anyone mention Sarah Smith's Chasing Shakespeare ? Excellent book.
Even in nonfiction, you have books like Reviving Ophelia.
Also an album called Finding Ophelia by Jinny Kim, which I may have to buy.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 05, 2010 5:40:26 pm PST #11099 of 28344
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Prospero's Books and John Cassavetes' Tempest were both well-made, interesting films inspired by Shakespeare.
Amanda Bynes' She's the Man was not.
Kat - Mar 05, 2010 6:25:21 pm PST #11100 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Christopher Moore's book, Fool.
I had a running list of things that are almost perfectly Shakespearean, without really being a direct spinoff. For example, I Love Lucy is so much like Merry Wives of Windsor in many respects.
Strix - Mar 05, 2010 6:52:27 pm PST #11101 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
"Romiette and Julio" by Sharon Draper. A pretty popular YA book that modernized the story, but the plot is different Romiette is African-American, Julio is Chicano.
Pix - Mar 05, 2010 6:53:41 pm PST #11102 of 28344
The status is NOT quo.
Lots of Shakespeare in Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff. Still one of my favorite books.
Barb - Mar 05, 2010 7:18:40 pm PST #11103 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, and Romeo and Julie. Women's fic novel with the lead characters in their late fifties/early sixties. It was their children who were against the match.