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The First Shakespeare Movie in Context

With random fun facts about Dracula and a poisoned-rat-infested skull

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The Fifteen Minute Hamlet

Todd Luiso's Version of Tom Stoppard's Version of Shakespeare's Play

May 17 •

American Vitagraph, Shakespeare Movie Pioneers

This story, which you find on Wikipedia and elsewhere, isn't true: in 1896 the vaudeville performer, cartoonist, illustrator, and reporter J. Stuart…

May 9 •

Shakespeare-Movie Soliloquies and Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight

Welcome Bardophiles, Cinephiles, and Bibliophiles I’ll be writing here about a few of my obsessions: Shakespeare, movies, history, and fiction (both…

Apr 26 •

Is April 23 Shakespeare's Birthday?

Apr 21 •

Macbeth and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood

Many directors of Shakespeare films have not been great film innovators and stylists—they've been stage directors with a deep understanding of the…

Apr 21 •

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