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.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
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 7:18:40 pm PST #11103 of 28344
“Not dead yet!”
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]
sumi - Mar 10, 2010 4:14:44 am PST #11110 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
That looks like fun!
Katerina Bee - Mar 11, 2010 2:18:42 pm PST #11111 of 28344
Herding cats for fun
Oh, and Moonlighting did a Shrew parody. In which Bruce Willis sang and played the harmonica. @@
I gotta remember to look up a copy of that episode; I was such a fan when this aired.
I have a book built around Shakespeare called This Body. It started with a dying junkie whose body was suddenly inhabited by someone really into the modern play-going Shakespeare scene. It was a nice take on "now I get to start over in this nice young healthy body and forget all my dreary responsibility." I quite liked it.
shrift - Mar 13, 2010 6:27:44 pm PST #11112 of 28344
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I've read Robert B. Parker's Appaloosa, Resolution, and I'm in the middle of Brimstone. Do any of his other novels have a similar dynamic to the laconic life partners Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch?
Even if they don't, I'd welcome recommendations from the rest of his oeuvre.