Twelfth Night is one of the most frequently performed Shakespeare plays because…
Month: July 2020
“Who Decides? It is Written”: Finding the Unknown in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990)
One of the benefits of adapting an established story is that you…
“A Rose by Any Other Name”: Shakespeare and Film
Intro for the Week Shakespeare remains an inescapable literary force, one which…
Finding Room on the Screen (Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice…)
Updated September 6th, 2022 I have a complicated relationship with classic adaptation…
“It’s a Small World, Spiritually Speaking”: Music and Myth in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
“O Muse! Sing in me, and through me tell the story“ Updated…
“I’m Just a Woman”: Quiet Rebellion in Little Women (2019)
Updated August 29th, 2021. Little Women argues that romance is a luxury,…
Fidelity and Adaptation: Or How To Ruin/Save Your Favourite Book
Week Intro Adaptation films arrive with a specific audience in mind, one…
“Who Am I?”: Unmasking the Past and Moving Forward with the Present in HBO’s Watchmen Series (2019)
A transmedial discussion I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means…
“Our Lady of the Upside Down”: Persephone’s Rebirth in Hadestown (2019)
Part III of III Hadestown makes old material insistent and relevant while…
“Working on a Song”: The Role of the Adaptor in Hadestown (2019)
Part II of III Anaïs Mitchell’s musical emphasizes the act of storytelling…