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Who Wrote It Better: February Edition

February 23, 2015 by Jessi

As embarrassing as it may be for one celebrity to be caught wearing the same thing as another, many of us common folk find true delight in comparing the two and declaring a winner. This fashion face-off of “Who Wore It Better?” has inspired a literary twist in the form of a bookish battle we call “Who Wrote It Better?” Shakespeare’s turn of phrase is better than Right Said Fred’s little turn on the catwalk. (Yeah, on the catwalk!) Why isn’t “February […]

Categories: Literary Style • Tags: Anna Wintour, February, Jenny Han, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare, We'll Always Have Summer, Who Wrote It Better, William Shakespeare

“My only love sprung from my only hate!” – Film Fest Friday

May 16, 2014 by Caitlin

Romeo + Juliet Movie Release: 1996 Book (play) Release: 1595 Where to watch: Curled up alone on the couch with a blanket, an oversize hoodie and a bunch of tissues. We’re crying through this one. I think it’s been popular to bash it in recent years – heck, maybe always – but at least you’ve heard of it. Maybe you read it in its original glory, or saw a college production of it, or just watched Shakespeare in Love and […]

Categories: Adaptations • Tags: classics, Film Fest Friday, Leonardo DiCaprio, romance, Shakespeare

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?” – Film Fest Friday

May 9, 2014 by Erin

Much Ado About Nothing Movie Release: 2012 Book (play) Release: 1599 Where to Watch: If you can pull it off, watch the blu-ray DVD poolside with plenty of alcohol and jazzy music Much Ado About Nothing is my favorite of Shakespeare’s comedies, and honestly, I’ve seen the Kenneth Branagh-directed 1993 film…more times than I’d like to admit. Even the horror that is Keanu Reeves spewing a Shakespearean monologue can’t lessen my love for that movie, because Much Ado About Nothing […]

Categories: Adaptations • Tags: adaptations, Film Fest Friday, joss whedon, Shakespeare

She's the Man

She is the Maneth – Film Fest Friday

May 2, 2014 by Jessi

She’s the Man/Twelfth Night Movie Release: 2006 Book (play) Release: 1602 How to Watch: Full screen DVD for old times’ sake I can’t tell you how many times I’ve see this movie. I don’t know what it is, but it’s one of those movies that I can pop in at anytime, be it for movie night or just for background noise, and still laugh at the lovely teenage nonsense of it all. I went through a little Shakespeare phase in […]

Categories: Adaptations • Tags: amanda bynes, channing tatum, Film Fest Friday, Shakespeare, teenage romance

“You are not going out and getting jiggy with some boy. I don’t care how dope his ride is” – Film Fest Friday

April 25, 2014 by Caitlin

Introducing: Film Fest Fridays! Here we’ll bring you a weekly cinematic adaptation of a book and discuss the finer points of “Is the book really better than the movie?”  It’s William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday week, and we thought we’d kick it off with something fun – Shakepearean adaptations. Sure, these are technically re-worked versions of something that is meant to be seen and not read, but Shakes is celebrated as a writer – can’t we appreciate his prose reworked into […]

Categories: Adaptations • Tags: Film Fest Friday, movies, Shakespeare, teenage romance

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