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“He speaks like a drunken man”
The title of this entry comes from Oscar Wilde’s Salome. It is a line spoken by Herodias directed at Iokanaan, or John the Baptist. It is an important line, for it captures the hysteric, maddening quality of utterance in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, film, Oscar Wilde, theatre, theory, Victorianism
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Learning to Listen to the Monster
Last week I went to see a rebroadcast of National Theatre Live’s production of Frankenstein. The play was adapted by from the novel by Nick Dear, and directed by Danny Boyle. It stars Johnny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch on … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Romanticism, SF, theatre
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