they can be in books movies television and songs please give me ideas i nedd to finish!
2007-03-13 08:07:13 · 4 answers · asked by waterlover 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I give extra credit to my students who find allusions to Shakespeare in the real world. Just found an item in a recent New York Times Magazine referring to something the psychologists are calling the Lady Macbeth Effect.
"Collateral" with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx has a funny one. The West Wing was always great for allusions as is The Simpsons, Family Guy and Gilmore Girls.
There's an E.R. episode where Dr. Kovac recites the "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy whilst operating.
Here's one you'd never get - a favorite Dire Straits song is "Romeo & Juliet."
Oh, and what's the name of the parrot in Disney's "Aladdin"?
Of course, on a larger scale - "West Side Story" is Romeo & Juliet, Akira Kurasawa's "Ran" is King Lear; "O" is Othello and "Ten Things I hate About You" is Taming of the Shrew (as is the musical "Kiss Me Kate"). Heck, "The Lion King" is really Hamlet if you think about it.
2007-03-13 08:16:26 · answer #1 · answered by Roy Staiger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The poem "Out, Out---" by Robert Frost is titled after part of shakespeare's play MacBatch, in which in a soliloquoy it is stated "Out, out brief candle
Life's but a walking shadow
A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
It is a tale told by an idiot
Full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing"
This part of the soliloquoy relates to the poem.
2007-03-13 11:44:04 · answer #2 · answered by squirrelgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an old SF movie, "Forbidden Planet" that might be considered to be an allusion to "The Tempest".....
2007-03-13 08:12:58 · answer #3 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can try the movie "shakespeare in love"
2007-03-13 08:14:40 · answer #4 · answered by Crazy sweetheart 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋