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Macbeth and Time Travel in Looper
Till Birnam Wood do come to DunsinaneProving once again that, if you look hard enough, you can find Shakespeare in just about anything, Adam Sternbergh at the New York Times has an interview with...
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Wuthering Heights, Take Two: The TV Series
I fleetingly wondered if this might be something from The Onion when I first read it. A TV-series based on Wuthering Heights, but set in Napa? Anyone who's ever been to Napa knows it's a bit tonier...
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Shakespeare Theme Songs
Shout out to Shakespeare Geek for posting our "Scottish MacHillbillies" lyrical spoof this morning. Check out his blog to see some other great Shakespeare parodies set to famous TV themes songs.
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Our Favorite YA Novels Featured on Children's Book Review
Amy and I shared our favorite YA titles with Children's Book Review. You can see all our picks here. Let us know what you think!
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Autographed Galley Giveaway of Our New Book Tempestuous: A Modern-Day Spin on...
Amy and I are thrilled to officially announce that the first two books in our YA series Twisted Lit will be published by Merit Press very soon! Tempestuous: A Modern-Day Spin on Shakespeare's The...
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Costume Design for The Metropolitan Opera's Production of The Tempest
A fairy costume from The Tempest.Costume Designer Kim Barrett's gorgeous costumes for The Metropolitan Opera's upcoming production of The Tempest are featured in The New York Times's inspiration issue....
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New Movie Stoker Inspired by Classic Lit?
The talented Erin Cressida Wilson (a fellow contributor to The May Queen anthology) worked on the upcoming movie Stoker (March 2013), which, though apparently not a vampire movie, is inspired by Bram...
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Theatre Review: Shakespeare's Cymbeline at A Noise Within
Mix together in a blender a whole bunch of Shakespeare plays (Othello,Romeo and Juliet and a couple of the cross-dressing comedies) with a dash of fairy tale (wicked stepmother, idyllic forest setting...
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The Top 5 Scariest Book-to-Film Adaptations
I've pulled together a list of my five favorite Scariest Book-to-Film adaptations. There are numerous Stephen King adaptations that will scare you silly (Cujo!), but I had to narrow it down somehow....
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In The Huffington Post: Our Advice from Shakespeare for Romney and Obama
Amy and I have plundered the works of Shakespeare once again--This time for our article "Sage Political Advice from Shakespeare's Plays," which you can read in The Huffington Post's Book section: From...
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Henry James's "What Maisie Knew" Gets Modernized with Stellar Cast
How perfect is this cast? Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan (yes!) play feuding exes, while my True Blood obsession, Alexander Skarsgård, is mom's new boyfriend in this modern-day adaptation of the novel...
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Under the Radar: A Royal Affair
With so many promising period films to check out in the coming months (Anna Karenina, Wuthering Heights, and Les Mis, to name a few), you might not have heard of the Danish historical drama A Royal...
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Why Greenblatt's Non-Fiction "Thriller" Swerve Should be Adapted for Film
Sean Connery and Christian Slater in the adaptation of Eco's The Name of the RoseOn a long road trip this weekend, I listened to the audiobook of Stephen Greenblatt's Swerve: How the World Became...
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The Many Faces of Anna Karenina
Even though the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern said this morning that it "suffers from the malady of hyperenchantment," we're practically having heart palpitations over the release of Joe...
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Thanksgiving Edition: Films & TV Set in the Colonial Era
Happy Turkey Day, Romancing the Tome readers! In honor of the holiday, we've pulled together some Colonial-related film and TV picks, plus one suggestion for an adaptation that's yet to be made. The...
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Turner Classics "Great Adaptations" Viewing Guide
We're a little late to this one (I don't have cable), but Turner Classics is featuring 24 hours of "Great Adaptations" all month long. There are still plenty of must-sees in the two weeks remaining....
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Whereabouts: Ioan Gruffudd
In our last Ioan "Whereabouts," the Horatio Hornblower hottie and Royal Academy alum was set to star in a biopic of the Wind in the Willows author. A quick glance at his IMDB page reveals... nothing...
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Kim's Yo Ho Ho Hot Toddy Recipe
Speaking of Horatio Hornblower (which we are always doing around here--it's part of our blog's raison d'être), I thought I'd share a hot toddy recipe for those chilly winter evenings spent snuggled...
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After Karenina: Kim's Take
Swoon factor: 5/5. Visual: 5/5. Casting: 4/5. From start to finish, I was utterly enchanted by this gorgeous adaptation of Tolstoy's novel. The casting was just fab (although I suppose I wondered for a...
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