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.
Mal: I call you back? Wash: No, Mal. You didn't. Zoe: I take full responsibility, cap.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
Amy - Mar 05, 2010 3:07:41 pm PST #11098 of 28344
Because books.
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.
Consuela - Mar 05, 2010 7:31:42 pm PST #11104 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Lots of Shakespeare in Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff. Still one of my favorite books.
Man, I love that book. Haven't read it in years; I'm afraid it won't hold up. I think it's a bit id-vortexy for me. It's all wrapped up with college for me, cause I went to Cornell for 3 semesters and knew a bunch of people who lived in Risley. It was a whole thing there, about the college experience I didn't have.
sumi - Mar 06, 2010 8:58:31 am PST #11105 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Hey, the Hamlet in Croation speech from er.
(If it hasn't been mentioned.)
erikaj - Mar 06, 2010 10:04:25 am PST #11106 of 28344
Always Anti-fascist!
SO. hot.
Fred Pete - Mar 08, 2010 5:14:21 am PST #11107 of 28344
Ann, that's a ferret.
Except for Midsummer Night's Dream the comedies are a bit under-exploited.
The Boys from Syracuse is basically a musical version of The Comedy of Errors.
How about the Paul Rudnick play, "I Hate Hamlet"?
And I highly recommend A Thousand Acres. It's Lear in the c. 1980 agricultural Midwest.