Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Some Favorites

Favorite Plays
Hamlet
Much Ado About Nothing
Richard III

Favorite Movie Adaptations
Two versions of Much Ado About Nothing (2013 Wedon and 1993 Branagh versions)
The Taming of the Shrew (1967 Taylor/Burton version)
The Hollow Crown (TV series)
Coriolanus (2013)

Favorite Movie About Shakespeare
Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard

Favorite Book About Shakespeare
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Bill Bryson)

Favorite Live Plays
Much Ado About Nothing (The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa., Saturday, April 6, 2013)
Cymbeline (Fiasco Theater, The Folger, Washington, D.C., 2014)
The Tempest, Act I, Scene I (Glen Ellen Theater, Glen Lake, Michigan, 2014)

Favorite Theaters
Blackfriars Playhouse

Favorite Shakespeare Websites
Shakespearences
Folger Library
Get Insulted by the Bard

A Few Favorite Quotes (Forgetting Many)
“Laud we the gods, And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils, From our blest altars.” - Cymbeline
“Now is the winter of our discontent: Made glorious summer by this sun of York” - Richard III
“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here, While these visions did appear.” - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." - Julius Caesar

Favorite Stage Directions
[Exit, pursued by a bear] - The Winter’s Tale
"What, you egg!" [stabbing him] - Macbeth

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