william shakespeare

What is it? Mine is Macbeth.

I was trying to think of a classic sf book or film based on one of his plays. Characters like Paul in Dune have traits and challenges similar to young Hamlet or Henry V, but I can't think of a direct retelling. Thoughts?

It's claimed (where?) that really only Midsummer night's Dream and the Sonnets are entirely his own invention. Certainly he was widely read, though didn't have a library like John Dee's. Dee's library must have been amazing. There are at least three earlier Prose versions of King Lear. Much may...

One of the best things I ever read about Shakespeare was a short book by S. L. Bethell called Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition. Published by the obscure firm of Staples Press in 1944, but with an introduction by T. S. Eliot, this book got me to think about how important it is to...

William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Ian Doescher: 9781594746376: Amazon.com: Books I found this at the library, and now that I've read two pages I feel compelled to recommend it heartily to everyone I can think of. :D I cannot even think about the work that went into translating Star Wars into a...

Oh, the horror, the horror! At first sight there isn’t much to connect Stephen King with Shakespeare – maybe even at second sight. But I was watching the BBC Othello yesterday when one of those ‘ermmm’ thoughts struck: Iago and Mr. Gaunt. Mr. Gaunt, from King’s ‘Needful Things’, is...

to an English degree, for instance....? toledoblade.com -- The Bard is not to be Title: "The Bard is not to be", originally published Wed., Apr. 25, 2007.