arts and entertainment

You would think, that upon hearing my favorite book was to be adapted as a movie, I would at least be slightly intrigued, but my reaction was more akin to that of disgust. (I imagine it was much the same as when someone sugested that J.D Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" be defiled--perphaps too strong a word, but can you imagine the life of Holden Caulfield being put to song and dance?

Let's face it: many of Shakespeare's works are very disturbing and violent: Macbeth dabbles in witchcraft and gets beheaded, Hamlet contemplates suicide, Coriolanus is burned alive, and in Titus Andronicus, Lavinia's rapists are baked into a pie. Caliban is enslaved to Prospero, and Katharina is "tamed" into submission by sleep deprivation.