Here’s a great vid of the Beatles doing a Shakespeare sketch on the Beeb, circa 1964. It’s quite an arresting snapshot of a moment in time, both culturally and for the boys themselves. I wonder if ol’ Will spun in his grave when one of his characters became a major part of the Wham-O Company.
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What a great find, CraigC!
I have always thought that Shakespeare would absolutely love to see his plays spread far and wide by any means. He’d have loved Mad Max playing Hamlet, and he would have loved the Fab Four doing a scene from MND.
Heh. It’s the players from Midsummer Night’s Dream. :)
I have always thought that Shakespeare would absolutely love to see his plays spread far and wide by any means.
Perhaps, but I have seen some really horrible things done with Shakespeare. We usually have season tickets to FSU’s Mainstage theatre. They don’t seem able to present a Shakespearean play in Elizabethan fashion. It’s always some parody of Shakespeare a la The Goodbye Girl.
The last one we saw was Romeo and Juliet done with half the lines spoken in Spanish. I kept expecting Romeo to whip out his sword and say, “Say hello to my little friend.”
The worst part is how they think we’re too dumb to pick up the double entendres in the script unless they make extravagantly obscene gestures. For some reason I had thought it would be a good idea to take my 10 yr old daughter along. I spent a good bit of the time blushing.
This past season they did a play called The Tamer Tamed by John Fletcher, a contemporary of Shakespeare’s. The play is a sequel to The Taming of the Shrew. It takes place after the death of Kate and centers on Petruccio’s new wife, Maria as she brings him to heel through various strategems. It’s rather a feminist’s wet dream, and it was the first time that I’ve seen an Elizabethan play done on that stage in actual Elizabethan costume. They did the play as written for once. That’s not necessarily a good thing, since it was decidedly mediocre. It illustrated perfectly why we all quote Shakespeare instead of John Fletcher.
Catch Peter Sellers reciting “A Hard Day’s Night” as Laurence Olivier playing Richard III.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ2s9A0-rC0
John especially hated doing silly stuff like this. Interesting to see, though; thanks.