{"id":787,"date":"2008-09-29T22:30:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T02:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2017-08-18T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:28:22","slug":"question-of-the-week-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/787","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <a href=http:\/\/blog.shakespearegeek.com\/2008\/09\/kenneth-branagh-to-direct-thor.html target=_blank>Shakespeare Geek<\/a> we learn that <a href=http:\/\/splashnewsonline.celebuzz.com\/2008\/09\/kenneth-branagh-to-be-a-marvel.html target=_blank>Kenneth Branagh is to direct <em>Thor<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn a departure from his normal cerebral choices for directing, it seems British actor and film-maker Kenneth Branagh has decided to take on something a little less complex, the Marvel Studios version of &#8220;Thor&#8221;. &#8220;Thor&#8221; is based on the well known German\/Norse God of Thunder, but in the Marvel Universe and prospective film, he has an alter-ego, a disabled medical student called Donald Blake, which makes the god have a more human\/vulnerable side than some superheroes. The film has a scheduled released date of 2010.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We all have to eat.   On to the Question of the Week!<\/p>\n<p><em>Which Shakespearean role would you cast with which superhero (or super villain) and why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get the ball rolling by casting The Flash as Puck.  Who else could &#8220;put a girdle round about the earth\/ In forty minutes&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Shakespeare Geek we learn that Kenneth Branagh is to direct Thor: In a departure from his normal cerebral choices for directing, it seems British actor and film-maker Kenneth Branagh has decided to take on something a little less complex, the Marvel Studios version of &#8220;Thor&#8221;. &#8220;Thor&#8221; is based on the well known German\/Norse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,110,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","category-shakespeare","category-shout-out","category-the-dream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}