Adam Magazine on the Crazy Years

Looting, killing and raping -- by twisting their words they call it "empire"; and wherever they have created a wilderness they call it "peace" -- Tacitus

Monday, August 6

Lingua Franca - September 2001 | Field Notes: The Pound of Flesh The film in question is A Midsummer Night's Cream—tag line: "What (Horny) Fools These Mortals Be!"—and it's merely one recent example of a growing genre of Shakespeare adaptation: Shakespeare porn. Nominated for ten 2001 Adult Video News Awards, including a best actress nomination for the porn legend Nina Hartley as Titania, Canterbury's film joins Romeo and Julian (1993), Hamlet: For the Love of Ophelia (1996), Taming of the Screw (1997), and dozens of other works in this expanding canon.

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