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.
I can hurt a demon!! That's right. I'm back. And I'm a BLOODY ANIMAL!
Spike ,'Showtime'
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."
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
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.
Hayden - Mar 08, 2010 7:28:53 am PST #11108 of 28344
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Kurosawa remade Macbeth and King Lear. Both in awesome fashion.
As pointed out, those are Throne of Blood and Ran. Kurosawa also did Hamlet: The Bad Sleep Well.
Sue - Mar 10, 2010 3:05:58 am PST #11109 of 28344
hip deep in pie
Trailer for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead. [link]