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Sleep No More, Macbeth … and New York
True story: Since New York City’s McKittrick Hotel opened this spring, not one single guest has managed to stay through the entire night. This is partly owing to the eerie noises and frightful visions...
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Check Out the Action-Packed New Trailer for Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus
Of all the revisionist interpretations of the Bard’s vast oeuvre, action is among the few cinematic genres yet to be applied to a contemporary film version of one of his plays. And that was just fine...
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From Flamethrowers to Fabulists: A Short History of Literary Scandal in Film
In the annals of provocative movie taglines, “Was Shakespeare a Fraud?” ranks right up there with “Meet the Marquis de Sade. The Pleasure Is All His.” Each of these works of marketing haiku was devised...
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Covert Adaptations: 7 Movies You Didn’t Know Were Based on Books
It is no secret that Hollywood has a tendency to turn to books when they are on the quest for the next hot film project. And why shouldn’t they? Book-based films offer movie producers the security of a...
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For the True Hunger Games Fan: District 12 Is on the Market for a Cool $1.4M
Looking for a nice dystopic stretch of farmland in which to settle? A quiet place from which to observe the crumbling of Western civilization? An entire seventy-two-acre town called Henry River Mill...
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Johnny Depp Joins Reese Witherspoon and Julia Roberts in Bringing Literary...
When we speak about the golden age of anything, it’s almost always in hindsight. This often means looking back in envy and frustration at having arrived too late to the pop cultural party and bemoaning...
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Shakespeare On Stage: Finding Shakespeare in Film Part I
Susannah Carson is an American author, editor, and academic. She received her Ph.D. from Yale, after earning graduate degrees at Paris III, La Sorbonne-Nouvelle and Lyon II, L’Université des Lumières....
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Shakespeare on the Big Screen: Finding Shakespeare in Film Part II
Susannah Carson is an American author, editor, and academic. She received her Ph.D. from Yale, after earning graduate degrees at Paris III, La Sorbonne-Nouvelle and Lyon II, L’Université des Lumières....
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English Teacher Compiles Massive ‘Hamlet’ Movie Reference Supercut
Geoff Klock set out to show his students and other Shakespeare fans just how deeply Hamlet has worked its way into our culture. So far his collection smashes two hundred examples from TV and film into...
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Much Ado About Shakespeare: From Joss Whedon to the Beyond
After uniting The Avengers, writer-director Joss Whedon recharged with a pet project: adapting and shooting a black-and-white version of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing over twelve days at his...
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Bret Easton Ellis Doesn’t Care What We Think About ‘The Canyons’
Paul Schraeder’s new indie “The Canyons” — filmed for under $250K — is making the rounds at screening events all over the country, and trying to make a modest sum off of the magical buzz that’s...
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The Comprehensive Kenneth Branagh: Henry V to Jack Ryan and Back
Kenneth Branagh sees connections among characters and plot, whether he’s interpreting Shakespeare or crafting spy games. The name of the Irish-born triple-threat — actor, director, and writer — has...
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Shakespeare, 450 Years Later: The 10 Essential Screen Adaptations
Ah, 450. Seems like just yesterday we were measuring our place in the socio-economic hierarchy by the width of our neck-ruffs. By now, you would think old Billy Shakespeare had spent the wealth of his...
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From Marlowe to de Montaigne: 5 Enlightened Minds Behind Shakespeare’s Plays
Editor's Note: Dan Falk is most recently the author of The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe, in which Falk travels back to the Scientific Revolution to examine the kind...
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Women of Will: Shakespeare and the Shattered Feminine Mystique
A blood-thirsty, power-mad queen. An innocent girl driven to madness and suicide. A teenager so in love she’d rather die than be separated from her beloved. A headstrong wife who chafes under the...
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Sir Ian McKellen to Lead NYC's Gay Pride Parade
Fans of the BBC comedy show "Vicious" (shown on PBS here in America) are in for an unprecedented treat: co-stars Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi have been named Grand Marshals of NYC's annual LGBT Pride...
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In the News: New Bios of Shakespeare and Shirley Jackson, and More!
In the news this week, Boris Johnson will deliver a new biography of the Bard, Angelina Jolie takes on a new directorial role, rumors circulate about a new Shirley Jackson bio, and a new Columbine...
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An Ode to the Bard: Michael Golding on Shakespeare and His Worlds
Michael Golding/Photo © Ansley Braverman Editor's Note: Michael Golding is the author of Simple Prayers and Benjamin’s Gift. He has also enjoyed success as an actor and screenwriter; his adaptation of...
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A Starter Kit on Elizabethan Essentials in Books, TV, and Film
Editor's Note: Andrea Chapin is most recently the author of The Tutor. For Signature, Chapin has compiled a treasure trove of necessary works — from Peter Ackroyd biographies to Cate Blanchette films...
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Orwell, Hamlet, and What it Means to be Human
Editor's Note: Kurt Gray is a professor of social psychology at UNC Chapel Hill who received his PhD from Harvard University. He is the co-author of “The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels and Why it...
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