Stephen Greenblatt, The Telegraph June 7, 2014 One wrote essays to be read in private, the younger wrote plays for the public; both turned uncertainty into art. When, near the end of his career, Shakespeare wrote The Tempest, the tragicomic romance that seems at least in retrospect to signal his impending retirement to Stratford, he had in his mind and […]
Alison Flood, The Guardian May 28, 2014 Gone Girl author joins the likes of Margaret Atwood and Anne Tyler in series that rethinks Shakespeare’s stories ‘for contemporary readers’. Gillian Flynn, whose thriller Gone Girl explored a dark and twisted tale of revenge within a marriage, is set to give her own spin to perhaps the most famous story of revenge in literary […]
Reuters, AP May 30, 2014 WASHINGTON – William Shakespeare excoriated Richard III, the last king of England to die in battle, more than 500 years ago, with vibrant verbiage: a “foul bunch-back’d toad,” “deformed, unfinish’d” and a hunchback so ugly that dogs barked as he passed by. But the bard seems to have missed the mark, scientists said Thursday. Their comprehensive […]
Matthew Guerrieri, The Boston Globe May 24, 2014 On May 31, the new Twenty Summers Arts Center — located in the storied Hawthorne Barn in Provincetown — presents “Rich and Strange,” a sea-themed concert produced by writer M. T. Anderson, featuring The Broken Consort and the Arneis Quartet. Another writer of some note figures in the program: William Shakespeare, whose song […]
Mark Kennedy, Associated Press May 20, 2014 NEW YORK (AP) — The hero of a new audiobook is introduced as he lies in bed, trying to sleep on a frigid day in 1601. He’s the heir to the Danish throne, a tall handsome man of 27 with “a pale, finely chiseled face” and “mournful eyes that were the pale […]
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