Shakespeare - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/shakespeare/?source=rss&aim=shakespeare en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT To breed or not to breed By Laura Miller Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/27/wroblewski/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/06/27/wroblewski/index.html?source=rss With its taproot in "Hamlet," this novel spins an engrossing tale of power struggles within a family of Wisconsin dog breeders. The Merchants of Wall Street By Andrew Leonard Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/03/25/shakespeare_economy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/03/25/shakespeare_economy/index.html?source=rss 400 years before credit default swaps strode the earth, Shakespeare nailed the financial crisis. The ultimate Japanese Shakespeare spaghetti western! By Andrew O'Hehir Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/08/28/sukiyaki/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/08/28/sukiyaki/index.html?source=rss Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western Django" offers a spectacular mashup of Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Tarantino and the Bard -- and it's weirder than that sounds. Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 8 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/audio/poetry/2002/09/03/dylan_thomas_cd8/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/poetry/2002/09/03/dylan_thomas_cd8/index.html?source=rss The Welsh poet reads from the works of Shakespeare and from Milton's "Paradise Lost." "After Shakespeare" by John Gross, ed. By Jonathon Keats Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/08/07/shakespeare/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/08/07/shakespeare/index.html?source=rss Victor Hugo raised him in a séance, Voltaire ripped him off and Byron called him a vulgar dog. The world's great writers just can't leave Shakespeare alone. "O" By Charles Taylor Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/08/31/o/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/08/31/o/index.html?source=rss A new adaptation takes Shakespeare to high school. The "O" stands for Othello." Also, "Oprah." "Author Unknown" by Don Foster By Gavin McNett Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/11/02/foster/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/11/02/foster/index.html?source=rss The man who fingered Joe Klein goes on the trail of JonBenet's killer, the Unabomber, Monica Lewinsky and Shakespeare. Lear meets the energy vampire By Michael Sragow Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/col/srag/2000/09/21/kurosawa/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/col/srag/2000/09/21/kurosawa/index.html?source=rss Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" remains a bloody and spectacular depiction of doomsday karma -- and the trickle-down theory of anarchy. Education, homosexuality, the media and pop culture By Camille Paglia Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2000/06/09/education/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2000/06/09/education/index.html?source=rss Readers write about academia and its disintegration, lesbians without personalities, Peter Pan syndrome among gay men and simpering nymphets of the Flockhart-Paltrow school. Shakespeare meets Sisqo By James Diers Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/log/2000/05/17/thong/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/log/2000/05/17/thong/index.html?source=rss Shall I compare thy thong to a ... 21st Challenge No. 31 Results By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/chal/2000/03/11/31_results/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/chal/2000/03/11/31_results/index.html?source=rss "Pez Dispens'd" and other couplets in praise of tech gadgets. The North American intellectual tradition By Camille Paglia Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2000/03/04/inteltrad/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2000/03/04/inteltrad/index.html?source=rss To hell with European philosophers: The breakthroughs of non-European thinkers are the 1960s' greatest legacy. 21st Challenge No. 31 By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/chal/2000/02/26/challenge_31/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/chal/2000/02/26/challenge_31/index.html?source=rss Shall I compare thee to a transistor? Shakespearean odes to technology. Analyze this multimillionaire By Amy Reiter Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/02/18/npfri/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/02/18/npfri/index.html?source=rss A chat with the shrink to TV's recently married moneybags; gay guys want to bed Madonna, Everett says; Renie Zellweger tattoos her caboose with whose name? Plus: Aaron Spelling is mad as hell! Bit parts By David Gates Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/bag/2000/02/14/gates/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/bag/2000/02/14/gates/index.html?source=rss The author of "Wonders of the Invisible World" picks five great literary walk-ons. "Gertrude and Claudius" by John Updike By John Freeman Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/09/updike/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/09/updike/index.html?source=rss In his 19th novel, Updike spins a tale of feverish and furtive sex and death in a masterly prequel to "Hamlet." Wake up! Is this Cloud-Cuckoo-Land? By Camille Paglia Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2000/02/02/primary/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2000/02/02/primary/index.html?source=rss Will we get stuck with a fumbling Bush? Given the evil eye by Hillary? Deafened by the shrill mania of gun controllers? And will Kate Winslet ever get the Oscar Helen Hunt stole from her? "Titus" By Charles Taylor Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2000/01/07/titus/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2000/01/07/titus/index.html?source=rss Like so many self-conscious directors, Julie Taymor wrecks Shakespeare's already disastrous play with her own horrific vision. Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/letters/1999/11/17/sowell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/1999/11/17/sowell/index.html?source=rss Will the free market reward art and education? Plus: Gauging "the Philadelphia effect"; Americans are fat because we're lazy and eat bad food. Please stand by By Sean Elder Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/media/log/1999/10/25/media/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/media/log/1999/10/25/media/index.html?source=rss Prince Hal (played by Pat Buchanan) experiences technical difficulties. Real superpower in a godless universe By Camille Paglia Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/1999/09/22/paglia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/1999/09/22/paglia/index.html?source=rss Raging tempests: Natural, cultural, political and cinematic. Baring it all for the Bard By Amy Reiter Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/06/10/macbeth/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/06/10/macbeth/index.html?source=rss C'mon over, baby, whole lotta Shakespeare going on! Plus: The case of the exceedingly unpleasant cream puff; and Stone and DeGeneres slated to sing, "She's havin' my baby ..." What if Joan was one of us? By Christopher Hawthorne Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/log/1999/05/14/joan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/log/1999/05/14/joan/index.html?source=rss CBS's "Joan of Arc" miniseries is a history lesson in end-of-the-millennium American pop culture. Disenchanted forest By Stephanie Zacharek Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/05/14/midsummer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/05/14/midsummer/index.html?source=rss Too many weak performances -- and no, not including Calista's -- prevent Michael Hoffman's opulent "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from being more than a mildly pleasurable exercise in ornamentation. One shrew thing By Mary Elizabeth Williams Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/04/01/review/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/1999/04/01/review/index.html?source=rss The Bard gets the teen-flick treatment in '10 Things I Hate About You'.