Shakespeare scholars ignored audio performances for decades, even though audio productions far outnumber screen adaptations.[1] Audio was mostly relegated to […]
“Part One” (69.2) showed that the American Shakespeare Center and the Flatwater Shakespeare Company streamed subprofessional video captures during the […]
Shakespeare’s now famous descriptions of jealousy are apparently unique. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first appearance of “green-eyed jealousy” […]
Indian director Vishal Bhardwaj’s Bollywood adaptations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet—Maqbool (2003), Omkara (2006), and Haider (2014) respectively—use Shakespeare’s […]
Since Covid-19 put its “girdle round the earth” (Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2.1), Shakespearean theatrical companies and practitioners have struggled to […]
We almost made it, Tom Pendleton and I, to an even thirty years of print publication for The Shakespeare Newsletter. But forced economies since my retirement in 2014 made the switch to digital publication inevitable. I know both Tom and I are grateful to our successor as Editor, Dr. Thomas J. Moretti, for holding on to print for as long as he has. As the newsletter transitions from print to digital, it seemed a good opportunity to reflect in this final print issue on the Iona years so far.
