Greetings, scholars! We hope spring break is treating you well. Here on the blog, we couldn’t rest until we had compiled the choicest links for your perusal. Or something like that.
- The 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen continues with New Yorker writer Anthony Lane’s review of the author’s last–and unfinished–novel, Sanditon.
- Actor and ex-National Guard member Stephan Wolfert examines the impact of Shakespeare in his life in his one-man show, “Cry Havoc!” In addition to his show produced by Off-Broadway company Bedlam, Wolfert also holds acting classes exclusively for veterans.
Wolfert at work on his one-man show. Via Sara Krulwich for the New York Times.
- The MFA is hosting a lecture at the end of this month called “The Benaki Museum and the Greek Narrative: The Role of Culture in Crisis.” Lecturer Pavlos Geroulanos, former Minister of Culture and Tourism in Greece, will be focusing on the extensive collection of Greek art and artifacts located at the Benaki Museum and its connections to Greece’s economic crisis.
- Seventeen years late, the movie The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is finally in the works, with Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame at the helm.
- In other Don Quixote news, the 1910 opera Don Quichotte is being performed by the Island City Opera of Alameda, California through March 12. The opera is loosely adapted from the Cervantes text (as in, we’ve spotted DQ, Sancho Panza, and the windmill incident, but composer Jules Massenet has added something about a quest for a stolen necklace and now we’re confused and flipping through multiple translations of Don Quixote for an explanation).
For the first Paris production in 1910. (Public Domain)
That’s all for this week. We’ll see you next week for more exciting adventures in the world of Core.
