SAT Conference 2021 - 13 - Joel Coen in Conversation with Mark Rylance

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Joel Coen: (actor, screenwriter, film director, producer, and editor) in conversation with Sir Mark Rylance (actor and SAT Trustee) about the use of source material both in the Coen Brothers films and in Shakespeare, as well as using Shakespeare as a source in Joel Coen’s new film, Macbeth. This is followed by Annabel Leventon reading a passage from the Scottish Play at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust conference 2021, Volumes that I prize above my dukedom-Shakespeare’s Sources
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[@madelaineparker11]

Went to Stratford to watch RSC to watch Shakespeare as a young teen and I instantly doubted that a man who knew Italy that well never traveled to Italy. And I had lived in Italy and I knew the author of those plays had really been to Italy. I’m so glad all this is being discussed and explored.

[@fabiengerard8142]

Btw, as far as I remember from some articles I read quite a few years ago, most of the Bard’s plays set in Italy had been initially inspired by Italian chronicles that the author is supposed to have had access to, and read in the original.

[@madelaineparker11]

@@fabiengerard8142 interesting. The other thing that Makes it quite clear the real author really went to Italy is the comedia del arte quality to the comic scenes which only some one who knows Italy knows how much comedia del arte plays in their culture Evan still today

[@madelaineparker11]

@Attila the Pun I grew up in Italy and one of the first things I things I felt about the person who wrote those plays is that they understood the character of Italy and had really been there. When i found out the original author never went to Italy I doubted that he was the read author before I knew there was already a question about it.

[@NewMusic.FreshIdeas]

Thank you for this.

[@rooruffneck]

Excited to hear this!

[@gotplums]

Absolutely brilliant. What a treasure to have this!

[@brendanward2991]

Fascinating discussion. Hard to believe that Joel Coen is 67.

[@TimothyJonSarris]

Enjoyed this conversation so much and Annabel’s magnetic potrayal of Lady Macbeth.

[@Short-Cipher]

Thanks for such an entertaining insight into Joel Coen's creative methods as a filmmaker, storyteller, & approaches to the various kernels of his source materials. Mark Rylance was a fabulous interviewer & drew out so many parallelisms between contemporary circumstances & Shakespeare's M.O. Bill Leahy did a great job moderating & Annabel Leventon closed the scene with a rock solid Lady M speech. 👏 I was already highly anticipating the Xmas release of The Tragedy of Macbeth🗡🩸, but this certainly whet my chops all the more.

[@edwinawilcox663]

Fantastic! Creative process discussions - so good.

[@vb8428]

Of course Mark Rylance loves A Serious Man