Anita Singh, The Telegraph March 10, 2014 Jude Law, Tom Hiddleston and Rory Kinnear will vie for the best actor prize at this year’s Olivier Awards in a battle of Shakespeare’s great heroes and villains. The trio have been nominated for their performances on the West End stage last year. Law played the title role in Henry V at the […]
Rachel Feltman, Quartz March 10, 2014 Love them or hate them, GIFs rule the web—and a pair of graduate students at the MIT Media Lab want to turn them into a language. Travis Rich and Kevin Hu started a site that uses human brain power to quantify the emotional content of animated GIFs (like the two below), as a side project. But their site, […]
Stuart Mitchner, Town Topics (Princeton, NJ) March 5, 2014 In the afterglow of the Oscars, with Shakespeare’s 450th birthday approaching, the time is right for a column about actors and acting, not just on the stage and screen, but in so-called real life. Shakespeare lays it out for the ages in As You Like It when Jacques says “All the world’s a […]
Shakespeare In America Edited and Introduction by James Shapiro Foreward by Bill Clinton Jim Shapiro is one of the Shakespeare world’s most intelligent, accessible, trusted and therefore, important authors. He is the author of “1599: One Year in the Life of Shakespeare” and “Contested Will” a superb dissection of the ‘authorship’ question. He now has edited a group of stories, […]
DANIEL D’ADDARIO Salon FEB 14, 2014 “The way it was displayed to us, long before Episode 1 was ever written in Season 1, was you are Lady Macbeth to his Richard III.” That was “House of Cards” star Robin Wright, using English-major references to describe her TV series — and her relationship, therein, to the Kevin Spacey character — at […]
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