Thursday, June 06, 2013

A strange setting ...

... Shakespeare Misplaced by Benjamin A. Plotinsky - City Journal. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

If you’ve been shaking your head ever since watching Keanu Reeves as Don John in Kenneth Branagh’s otherwise enjoyable Much Ado film of 1993, rest assured that there are American actors who can pull off Shakespeare.
Michael Keaton did a fine job as Dogberry in Branagh's film, and Keaton is American. Reeves hails from   Canada. I think, by the way, while Much Ado has its shadows, Twelth Night is actually darker. Not only is the prank played on Malvolio cruel, but Feste's song at the end assures us that "the rain it rain etch every day."

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