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Jeanette Winterson’s Complicated Shakespeare

Jeanette Winterson’s Complicated Shakespeare

By Malcolm Harris for The New Republic, 5 January 2016 To call Jeanette Winterson a novelist would be to sell her short. The novel is a limited thing, a technology like the bicycle pump or the gas stove. Stories are much older, a species constant, like cooking and language. Novels are fiction, while stories can be true or false or neither. “Trust […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Reviews
What Kind of Novels Did Shakespeare Write?

What Kind of Novels Did Shakespeare Write?

By Daniel Pollack-Peizner for The New Yorker, 9 November 2015 In October, the publisher Hogarth rolled out the first in its ambitious new line of Shakespeare plays retold by contemporary novelists. The pairings are promising: Margaret Atwood, a master of ecological dystopias, will reimagine “The Tempest,” for instance, while Gillian Flynn, who knows her way around marriage and murder, will take on […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture
Reviews: Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time, an adaptation of The Winter’s Tale

Reviews: Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time, an adaptation of The Winter’s Tale

Where There’s A Will: Shakespeare Remixed In ‘The Gap Of Time’ By NPR Staff for NPR, 4 October 2015 We often feature musicians who make cover albums — their versions of songs made popular by others. Now comes a project where writers — some of the most acclaimed of our time — cover Shakepeare’s [sic] works, retelling the Bard in […]

October 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture, Reviews
Oregon Shakespeare Festival commissions ‘modern language’ adaptations

Oregon Shakespeare Festival commissions ‘modern language’ adaptations

Image from The Wall Street Journal‘s ‘A Facelift for Shakespeare’ A Facelift for Shakespeare By John McWhorter for The Wall Street Journal, 25 September 2015 The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will announce next week that it has commissioned translations of all 39 of the Bard’s plays into modern English, with the idea of having them ready to perform in three years. Yes, translations—because […]

October 1, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture, Theaters