Another Op'nin', Another Show

[Terry Ross]

I haven't seen *Anonymous* yet, but probably will this weekend. There
has been a bit more traffic on the Shakespeare Authorship page lately,
which is probably due to the movie's imminent arrival. David Kathman
and I have put up a few links related to the movie, including some to
study guides that have been prepared by an outfit called Youth
Marketing International. I think the study guides YMI did for Tootsie
Rolls may have more educational value, but perhaps that view is
colored by the imminent arrival of Halloween.

Terry

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[John W Kennedy]

"...Rhys Ifans...swans around wearing a fixed half-smile of campy soulfulness, exactly as Vincent Price might have played Jesus."

That's the greatest critical slam I've seen since Noël Coward damned Jeanette MacDonald's mutant version of "Bitter Sweet".

--
John W Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"

[Tom Reedy]

I'll see it this weekend too. I was hoping it would be better than
what most of the reviews say.

The page visits to the Wikipedia SAQ page have tripled since the
beginning of this month, from ~500 a day to ~1,500, probably because
of all the free publicity Emmerich is getting from Shakespeare
academics and the Trust. I don't think it's gonna tank the way they're
saying it will, not with all the publicity.

The way I see it, only two groups will comprise the market: Oxfordians
and anti-Strats, and academics who will go see it to be outraged.
Everybody else will wait and catch it on Netflix.

TR

[Peter F.]

Have any of you seen this?
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hoyt-hilsman/anonymous-shakespeare-
_b_1035489.html?ir=Books>

The many many errors notwithstanding, Hoyt Hilsman is right.
The Marlovian story would have made a much better film. Not if
directed by Emmerich and scripted by Orloff, however. I just sat
through *Anonymous*, and if I were an Oxfordian would have been
most disappointed. Historically inaccurate (even if Oxford *had*
written Shakespeare!), poorly written, with some quite awful acting.
Trystan Gravelle as Kit Marlowe is particularly ghastly. I was quite
glad when he was killed, apparently by William Shakespeare, and
left to be found in some London street.

Peter

[Peter F.]

P.S. To be fair, though, two of the twelve other members of the
audience for this first local showing told me that they found it
"good fun".

Peter