Popular Culture

Book Review: In ‘Lucy Negro, Redux,’ Caroline Randall Williams considers Shakespeare’s Dark Lady

Book Review: In ‘Lucy Negro, Redux,’ Caroline Randall Williams considers Shakespeare’s Dark Lady

By Erica Wright for The Commercial Appeal, 29 August 2015 It is no stretch to say that Caroline Randall Williams is a rising literary star. Her 2012 middle-grade novel, “The Diary of B.B. Bright, Possible Princess” (co-authored with her mother, novelist Alice Randall), was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Earlier this year, the mother-daughter team also published […]

September 4, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture
Trailer for film of Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard

Trailer for film of Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard

For US audiences, click here. For UK audiences, click here.

September 4, 2015 · 0 comments · Film, Popular Culture, Uncategorized
Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet at the Barbican, London: Popular Response

Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet at the Barbican, London: Popular Response

Cumberfans on Hamlet: ‘I can’t imagine what it will be like to see him’ Hannah Ellis-Petersen for The Guardian, 4 August 2015 Teri Peterson, 39, a receptionist, has lived in rural Wisconsin her whole life. With the nearest theatres in Chicago or Milawaukee over a two hours drive away, Shakespeare performances are not always easy to access. But in October, she […]

August 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture
Alexander Barnett as King Lear

Director Alexander Barnett Working on New “King Lear” Film

Actor, director, filmmaker, Alexander Barnett is working on an exciting new film adaptation of King Lear.  You can find more details at: https://www.facebook.com/KingLearFilm   Here is his director’s statement:   “Today, wherever you turn, the world is erupting in violence: murder, torture, rape, carnage.  The list of atrocities seems endless.  More and more we see life treated cheaply, brutally, in such a […]

Cover Reveal of Final Shakespeare ‘Star Wars’ Prequel Parody

Cover Reveal of Final Shakespeare ‘Star Wars’ Prequel Parody

By Bonnie Burton for CNET, 19 June 2015 “Something is rotten in the state of Coruscant!” “William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of the Sith’s Revenge” — the final installment of author Ian Doescher’s Shakespearean “Star Wars” prequel parodies from Quirk Books — hits bookshelves on September 8, and CNET got an exclusive look at the cover. The gorgeous artwork portrays the evil cyborg General […]

June 23, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture