{"id":201029,"date":"2014-07-17T22:39:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T22:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/17\/modern-day-shakespeare-adaptions-that-should\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T22:39:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T22:39:54","slug":"modern-day-shakespeare-adaptions-that-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/17\/modern-day-shakespeare-adaptions-that-should\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>modern day shakespeare adaptions that should exist<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>southern gothic macbeth. the bloody, brutal themes of the play in\u00a0the\u00a0suffocating atmosphere of the genre. the imagery of lady macbeth\u2019s hands dripping with blood! the witches! macbeth\u2019s madness when he believes the swamp has actually come to life to kill him! it\u2019s like it was made for this play<\/li>\n<li>political othello. make him secretary of defense or state. imagine a house of cards like environment. addresses issues of current racism and misogyny\u00a0in politics, and Iago\u2019s jealous\/obsessive love for Othello with <em>very clear<\/em> homo-erotic undertones. like extremely explicit and how that translates in such a masculine setting to understand Iago\u2019s intent.<\/li>\n<li>police hamlet. hamlet senior as the deputy in nyc. his mysterious death draws his son home from stanford\/harvard\/what-have-you. a modern day noir-like detective mystery. emphasis on ophelia\u2019s depression and subsequent decent into madness by popping too many pills. the way the \u201crespectful\u201d upper-class tear themselves apart splashed all across the media.<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense\" title=\"United States Secretary of Defense\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>the tempest as lost.<\/li>\n<li>titus andronicus as a proper horror movie, set in the current war in the middle east.<\/li>\n<li>college midsummer nights dream. the fairyland is a popular night club. lots of dubstep music and drugs slipped in dark corners of the dance floor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>modern day shakespeare adaptions that should exist southern gothic macbeth. the bloody, brutal themes of the play in\u00a0the\u00a0suffocating atmosphere of the genre. the imagery of lady macbeth\u2019s hands dripping with blood! the witches! macbeth\u2019s madness when he believes the swamp has actually come to life to kill him! it\u2019s like it was made for this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/17\/modern-day-shakespeare-adaptions-that-should\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4319,446,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}