Friends, Romans, countrymen, give me your attention

13th March 2008 with 2 Comments

Spark Publishing in the USA have translated nineteen Shakespeare plays into modern language. The series is published under the No Fear imprint .
Carlin Romano over at the Philadelphia Inquirer takes a look at some of the texts and illustrates why the task fails miserably and how it should never have been undertaken.
I’ll confine myself here [...]

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Modigliani and Chekhov

25th September 2006 with 4 Comments

‘Young girl lives on shore of lake since childhood – like you. Loves the lake – like the seagull. Is happy and free – like the seagull. Then one day a man turns up, sees her, and mindlessly destroys her.’
We’re in London at the moment, at th Royal Academy during the afternoon to see the [...]

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