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Quando procurei informações, a única imprensa online onde mencionam o nome do tradutor é a Central Comics , o qual é o Professor João Miguel Lameiras . Felizmente, o Público encomendou um artigo de apresentação ao tradutor e professor. Shakespeare reinventado por Gianni De Luca. Tal como as peças de Shakespeare que a inspiraram, a Trilogia de Gianni De Luca é uma obra intemporal e inovadora.  Depois de terem publicado pela primeira vez em livro em Portugal, Sergio Toppi e Guido Crepax, o PÚBLICO e a Levoir (desta vez em parceria com a editora A Seita) fecham a “santíssima trindade” dos mais inovadores desenhadores italianos de fumetti do século XX, com a publicação da Trilogia Shakespeariana , de Gianni De Luca, lançada, não por acaso, no Dia Mundial do Livro, 23 de Abril, que coincide com o dia da morte de Shakespeare. Nascido em 1927, em Gagliato, na Calábria, De Luca, que se definia como “alguém que conhece os seus limites, mas que sobretudo não tem medo de reconhecer as...

Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Héloïse Dorsan Rachet.

From The Word Made Flesh - O Verbo se fez Carne Excerpt from Caliban’s soliloquy in “The Tempest” "Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again.”

New York City is the greatest public works project in the USA . It is a city of tubes, grids, circuits and networks. We are organised by numbered floors and numbered streets and numbered apartments, fed and watered through great pipes and tunnels and bridges, shuttled to and fro in shifts along lines. On  Monday  night the magnificent machines were revealed to us, as they failed one by one. American newscasters hyperventilate about everything, and foam at the mouth when the subject is weather systems over the Northeastern United States, so there seemed no special reason to pay them any urgent attention in the days leading up to Sandy. The storm only became real when the governor announced the closure of the subway system on Sunday  morning. The process takes eight hours. Employees moved train cars, removed tracks that might be damaged by salt water, primed pumps, cleaned drains, evacuated stations and cleared rail yards prone to flooding. That night, the Metr...

I received  The Word Made Flesh  as a birthday gift this year, and have been enjoying it greatly. So, I thought I’d send in a picture of mine. I got this tattoo early in 2011, a couple weeks before I turned 40.  It’s my first and (currently) only tattoo.  I’ve spent most of my life working on Shakespeare, performing, directing, studying.  This tattoo is inspired by the First Folio, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works, published in 1623.  The text is from “The Tempest”, act 3, scene 2, from one of my favorite speeches in all of literature.  I left the spelling as it is in the Folio, and the typeface is inspired by the Folio font.  The rabbits are from the header engraving of the First Folio text of The Tempest, first page. —Chris

Remembered by his colleagues The Guardian In the movies, an actor's face is his fortune. It isn't simply a matter of being good-looking enough to play the romantic hero or rugged enough to carry an action picture. It's about having an instantly available, readable screen personality; it's also about attitude, a continuous professional battle-readiness: Hollywood talks about someone having their "game-face on" or having "the chops" for a certain job. And perhaps no actor's career or industry presence has been defined by his face more than Pete Postlethwaite : the British character actor whose rugged features made him every casting director's go-to guy for raw, lived-in truth . The stark planes and bulges of his face created a veritable Easter Island statue of authenticity and plainness. On camera, his face read as "real", in counterpoint to all the prettyboy or prettygirl leads. It was impossible to imagine him young, ye...

Os meus momentos preferidos (para assistir) a azul Colóquio Mensageiros das Estrelas / Messengers from the Stars Conference Ficção Científica e Fantasia / On Science Fiction and Fantasy 2-5 Novembro 2010 / 2 nd -5 th November 2010 CEAUL/FLUL     2 de Novembro / November 2 nd 13.30 – 14.00 – Abertura / Opening Session Prof. António Feijó ; Prof. Isabel Fernandes ; Prof. Francisco Contente Domingues ; Prof. Isabel Barbudo ; Prof. Angélica Varandas e Prof. Adelaide Serras – Sala / Room 2.13 14.00 – 15.00 –  Plenária / Plenary Session : Henrique Leitão (FCUL/CIHC) “Galileu, o Mensageiro das Estrelas”. Moderador / Chair: Isabel Fernandes – Sala / Room 2.13 15.00 – 15.30 – “O uso da realidade: perspectivas sobre a ciência na ficção” – Luís Filipe Silva . Moderador / Chair: Isabel Barbudo – Sala / Room 2.13 15.30 – 16.30 – Painel 1 / Panel Session 1 : “Fantasia e BD/Fantasy and Graphic Novels” – Moderador / Chair: Angélica Varandas – S...

The Venice International Film Festival announced Monday morning that Julie Taymor’s The Tempest will close the fest, which runs September 1 through 11th. Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is the opener. The $20-million indie-funded Miramax pick-up is finally coming out in December via Disney’s Touchstone label, which is fine with Taymor. At Cannes she said that the film wasn’t ready in May (Icon screened it in the Cannes market, though not for press) and would play the fall fest circuit. No matter how commercial Taymor’s latest Shakespeare adaptation turns out to be, with Helen Mirren as Prospera, Ben Whishaw as Ariel and Djiman Hounsou as Caliban, costumes (Oscar-winner Sandy Powell), cinematography (Stuart Dryburgh), production design (Mark Friedberg) and score (Elliot Goldenthal) should be factors in the Oscar mix. L.A. rocker Reeve Carney, who plays Peter Parker in Taymor’s Broadway musical adaptation of Spider-Man , stars in The Tempest as young Prince Ferdinand. TOH!

Prospero has become one bad mother. Shakespeare 's exiled sorcerer from The Tempest — once an old man stranded on a tropical island, protecting his beautiful daughter — has been recast as a woman for a new film starring Oscar winner Helen Mirren . The movie, planned for release in December, is from stage and screen director Julie Taymor ( Across the Universe , Frida ), who previously adapted The Bard in film with 1999's Titus , starring Anthony Hopkins as the bloodthirsty Roman general. Performed in many ways since the 1590s (including two previous stage versions by Taymor), The Tempest is more than ready for Prosper o to become Prosper a , she says. "I wanted to do it because there are actresses like Helen Mirren who never get to play these fantastic parts because they were not written for women," Taymor says. "We changed the role. It's one of the few plays where it not only doesn't hurt the play, but enhances the play." In th...

A BRAVE VESSEL The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown . . . By Hobson Woodward The fierce storm that leaves a small band of travelers stranded on a magical island in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" -- the last of his great plays, probably written in 1610-11 -- was considerably more than a product of the playwright's fertile imagination. Though scholars have squabbled over its exact source, there is general agreement that it is based on the hurricane that caused the wreck of the ship Sea Venture on Bermuda in 1609, and that an account of this event composed by an aspiring writer named William Strachey was among Shakespeare's chief sources. As Hobson Woodward writes in "A Brave Vessel": "The greatest writer of the English language was a bit of a literary pickpocket. Shakespeare was a voracious reader and extracted language and ideas from contemporary and classical literature alike. Such homage to the works of others wa...