Lloyd Evans, The Spectator March 29, 2014 There’s a problem, as we all know, with female roles in the theatrical canon, and it reaches all the way back to the Bard. Shakespeare’s women lack the richness and variety of his male characters. Modern theatre practitioners have tried all kinds of ploys to correct this imbalance. Next month the RSC launches […]
Alastair Macaulay, NY Times March 28, 2014 Rome and Juliet meet at a dance; Oberon and Titania reconcile with a dance; we’re told how enchantingly Cleopatra once hopped 40 paces down the street; in the scene of “As You Like It,” Duke Senior addresses the four young couples: “Bride and bridegrooms, dance you happiness away.” In Shakespeare’s plays, dance and […]
Allan Kozinn, NY Times February 13, 2014 The witty banter of Beatrice and Benedick and the avaricious scheming of Goneril and Regan will animate this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park, thePublic Theater’s annual series of free performances at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The series, which the Public announced on Thursday, begins with “Much Ado About Nothing,” which opens on June […]
Mike Flacy, Digital Trends March 19, 2014 Reported first by the Bristol Post, 24-year-old Edd Joseph of Bristol, England decided that he wanted a bit of revenge on a scammer that failed to come through with a game console purchase on a UK classified listings site called GumTree. Joseph found a listing that offered a PlayStation 3 bundle for the price of 80 British […]
Simon Stirling, The History Vault March 15, 2014 Last month, I suggested that William Shakespeare had two major love affairs in his life. The first was with his ‘White’ lady, who helped to inspire his ‘fair’ female characters, such as Bianca (The Taming of the Shrew) and Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). The model for these saintly ‘White’ ladies was […]
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