| 单词 | Shakespearean |
| 例句 | No color was involved there; I just got intrigued over the Shakespearean dilemma. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z From all the Shakespearean paraphernalia hanging on the walls, I’m guessing we’re in an English classroom. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z In 1957, their book, The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined, came out to great acclaim. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For instance, Raoul’s much ado about nothing comes by way of his father, a failed Shakespearean actor who gave up the dream and started a theater camp for underprivileged children. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z What she is doing is working at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Dear Mr. Waters, I am in receipt of your electronic mail dated the 14th of April and duly impressed by the Shakespearean complexity of your tragedy. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z But in fact it had been seven years, or eight, or nine: the summer she worked at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the summer of Josef. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The pages that comprise it are printed with Shakespearean sonnets. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Odd too is the effect produced when he uses academic jargon—bubbles at the tip of his tongue: ‘Topos... negative capability... vegetation imagery in Shakespearean comedy.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He ended with an almost Shakespearean ellipsis: “Our business now is north.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Washington was an indisputable American patriarch, but more an actor than a leader, brilliant at striking poses “in a strain of Shakespearean...excellence at dramatic exhibitions.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A “tall courtly black man with Shakespearean diction and the stare of an eagle,” Asa Philip Randolph, close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, headed the 35,000-strong Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As I was fiddling with the various stations, I came upon one in the middle of a broadcast of a Shakespearean play—The Merchant of Venice! Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The only character I recognized was Hamlet, who went off on Mr. Price in Shakespearean talk. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Many of these letters are intercepted by others, which is Shakespearean for "hacked". Murdoch could learn from Shakespeare 2011-07-12T19:00:01Z Admittedly, this account is not in itself a highly dramatic Shakespearean tale sounding elaborate and passionate themes. Exhibition Review: Shakespeare Folios as Venerated Relics 2011-07-07T12:01:10Z Others wear pantsuits, a point Beard illustrates with an amusing picture of Clinton and Merkel greeting each other in identical uniforms like reunited Shakespearean twins. Review | Author explains history’s muzzle on powerful women. Removing it is up to you. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Love, romance, business, these last Shakespearean moments are here made to say, are all subject to quakes, especially when grounded in oppression. Abraham makes 'Merchant' a memorable show 2011-03-18T21:06:11Z Whishaw's own great Shakespearean ambition is to play a woman: Viola. Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' – interview 2013-03-17T00:15:00Z The beautiful and brutal story of American development, always in progress and often moving backward, differs from the Shakespearean statement of existential despair. Barack Obama, invisible president: To truly see him requires white Americans to see themselves 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Hall of fame: The greatest Shakespeareans of all time? What to say about ? Hamlet with Rory Kinnear 2010-10-11T11:05:00Z Yet as portrayed by Tim Pigott-Smith, in a fully fleshed performance that finds heroic dimensions in one man’s misguided bid for greatness, this unsteady monarch acquires a pathos that might indeed be called Shakespearean. Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Hewlett would take over the role of Richard and later tour the country performing Shakespearean monologues, making him the first Black American Shakespearean actor. A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z He alters Shakespearean lines when proffering his goods. In Sicily, Market to Class to Table 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z You can see variety acts, burlesque artists, Shakespearean adaptations, solo storytellers, comedies, dance troupes — you name it. Fringe festival’s new cry: Eastward Ho! 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z HBO’s advertising for the season promises war and we may even see clashes that aren’t fully detailed in Martin’s second book, where some battles took place in a kind of Shakespearean off-stage. Watch a New Game of Thrones Season 2 Trailer 2012-03-05T22:23:27Z Grammer described the process as "figuring out a way to update a Shakespearean tragedy into a modern-day tale without being grotesquely obvious." Kelsey Grammer, the Boss of Chicago 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z But this isn't a history play in the Shakespearean mode, in which chronicles of kings were transformed into action-packed tales harboring lessons on political behavior and the corruptibility of power. 'The Great Society' a bustle of history lacking full LBJ picture 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Though Silbert's ability to bring new plays to life is beyond question, as a director of Shakespeare she was an unknown quantity – so it was far-sighted of the Royal Exchange to present her Shakespearean debut. The Comedy of Errors 2010-04-09T20:30:00Z Daring to apply the language, rhythms and sense of moment of a Shakespearean history to a topical situation most commonly hashed over in gossip magazines. ‘Hamilton’ and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Like the novel, the TV series follows a Shakespearean troupe that travels the Great Lakes region performing for survivors, offering hope that art will endure in a world without electricity, plumbing, antibiotics or iPhones. Finding Joy Through Art at the End of the World in ‘Station Eleven’ 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z None of this possesses the poignancy or complexity of which Conti is capable, far less rises to Shakespearean heights. Nina Conti – review 2013-05-10T17:01:44Z The revelation of “Hamilton” is how easily Miranda’s hip-hop rhymes work like a verse-driven Shakespearean history, and how profoundly audiences have responded to seeing performers of color portraying the country’s white founders. Pulitzers: Broadway’s ‘Hamilton,’ novel ‘The Sympathizer’ among arts winners 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Branagh, a renowned Shakespearean actor on stage and screen, will now be known as "Sir Kenneth" after he was knighted in one of the highest awards. Kenneth Branagh knighted in Queen's birthday honors 2012-06-16T01:30:48Z At a news conference following the screening, Mr. Depardieu called the movie a Shakespearean saga about power, sex and money. Cannes Film Festival: Strauss-Kahn Film Under Fire 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z “My father was a real Shakespearean fascist, in that he had a view about how it should be done, in terms of how you speak the verse,” Hall recalled recently. Rebecca Hall’s Complicated Inheritance 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Oh, he was very, very Shakespearean – huge in every sense, and vastly complex. ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The latest in a Shakespearean vein may have been hatched, in fact, this month. In Washington, the drama never ends The Seattle Opera production is a unique hybrid of the opera Berlioz wrote, plus new scenes lifted from the Shakespearean play “Much Ado About Nothing,” on which the opera is based. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z For now, Gallanar isn’t worried about exhausting his audience’s appetite for the Bard, and the current commitment is for half the shows to be Shakespearean. Chesapeake Shakespeare among troupes banking on Baltimore What follows their magnanimous decision to become three-way moms is endearingly told through the eyes of Janey, a Shakespearean specialist and self-described "un- reliable narrator" who offers to become the household's cook. 'The Atlas of Love': three grad students, one baby, many plot twists 2010-08-19T21:00:00Z He blushes like a Shakespearean boy actor playing a girl. After Fifty Shades: five authors offer their ripostes 2012-07-06T21:55:25Z At the same time, we’d be lucky if he were merely Shakespearean; no made-up villain, even Iago, is as alarming as someone for whom all the world is truly a stage. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The Shakespearean consequences so far outstrip the contemporary setups that it’s difficult not to feel jerked around. Review: In a Teenage Take on ‘Richard III,’ Now Is the Prom of Our Discontent 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z David Milch’s HBO series Deadwood, meanwhile, took some of the legendary figures of the old west – Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Wyatt Earp – and gave them Shakespearean soliloquies, taking creative liberties with their lives. From Gunsmoke to Deadwood: why the US turns to the wild west in times of crisis 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z “I had spent four months in Cedar City, Utah, right after graduation, as an intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival,” Mr. Karam recalled. Stephen Karam?s ?Sons of the Prophet? and ?Dark Sisters? 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z A Shakespearean Who Soared to Space Keeps Enjoying the Long Trip Back William Shatner in his one-man show, in which he reflects on his life and long career. Theater Review: ?Shatner?s World,? One-Man Show at the Music Box Theater 2012-02-17T03:00:01Z While the other characters in the play are garbed in traditional Shakespearean attire — the men in doublets and hose, the women in dark-hued period dresses — Mariah Gale’s Juliet is clearly Romeo’s contemporary. Theater Review: Love?s Flames Amid a City in Flames 2011-07-12T21:27:37Z But that is just another feature of the essential Shakespearean contradiction which Grandage's production so brilliantly captures. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z It is one of the most famous show-stopping speeches in the Shakespearean canon. ‘As You Like It’ actor Derek Smith details approach to ‘Seven Ages of Man’ speech It starts up with a rhyming prologue by a Shakespearean fool-troll and builds up to an incredibly dense, incredibly disjointed third act, packed with a barrage of fast-and-furious pop references. Review: A Satire of Social Media That Aims at Too Many Targets 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z This Shakespearean cocktail has proved immensely popular: “All the Way” went from Oregon to Broadway, with Bryan Cranston assuming the role of L.B.J., and there it broke the weekly box-office record for a straight play. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z "This is one of the most significant Shakespearean discoveries of recent years," a spokesman for Plough Yard Developments, which owns the site, said. Shakespeare theatre remains found 2012-06-07T08:30:06Z Earning two Oscars and critical acclaim, the film became a classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy and a staple of many English classrooms for decades. Teen Stars of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Sue Over Nudity in 1968 Film 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Certainly there is plenty here for Shakespeareans to recognize. Dance Review: City Ballet in Balanchine’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2012-06-06T21:59:12Z It is a lesson in tolerance only to the extent that its Shakespearean source could be described that way. | 'Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish': Love Speaks in Every Language 2011-07-08T02:42:00Z In “Emilia,” a new play running through Sept. 1 at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, the British playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm centers on Emilia Bassano, one of the first professional female writers in Shakespearean England. Who Was Shakespeare’s Muse? A Black Woman, This Play Imagines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Impressively bilingual, they can switch back and forth between Shakespearean eloquence and Method mumbling. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z “The Little Foxes” is talky, with convoluted, Shakespearean scheming; there’s a reason that thin plots are characteristic of a sung art form. Susan Graham, Opera’s Sweetheart, Tries Something New: Being Nasty 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Put those words of Terry's into the mouth of a great modern Shakespearean actor who doesn't court the audience or rely on dark green hangings, and we finally get behind the charm. Lynne Truss: rereading Four Lectures on Shakespeare by Ellen Terry 2012-07-27T21:55:01Z But what gives the drama an almost Shakespearean richness is something more: they’re also each other’s children and parents, bound together in an intricate web of love, support, anxiety, resentment, and interdependence. Bill Clinton vs. Lena Dunham: The Shakespearean battle of boomers and millennials 2014-03-01T21:00:00Z Celebrated Shakespearean actor Mark Rylance is the subject of the third prize image, taken by Spencer Murphy. Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize 2012 2012-11-06T14:21:04Z The troupe's name came from Shakespearean days: Audiences who couldn't afford theater seats and watched the show standing in the theater yard were called Groundlings. The Groundlings: improving improv in L.A. for 40 years 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z They are named for the Lunts, Lynn and Alfred, married actors who made Broadway meals of the same Shakespearean roles, catfighting onstage and off. Review: A Fair Fight Makes ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Lovable Again 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z "I did King Lear and Prospero and Shylock, along with numerous other Shakespearean plays, but those are the ones I really wanted to do," Mandell said pensively. Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Next to him, his "valued friend" Gordon Brown looks like an ethical titan, a man of Shakespearean depths and echoes. Andrew O'Hagan: 'Blair is cursed with a strong sense of his own decency' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z It’s been powered by upheaval at the network’s news division, by King’s interview with R. Kelly — which was Shakespearean in its drama and pathos — and by King’s basic-common-sense public persona. Our culture needed an adult. Gayle King rose to the challenge. 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Downey likens the series, with its cast of Shakespearean actors and a story rich with political maneuvering, to "Game of Thrones" and "House of Cards." Television puts more faith in religious-themed projects 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z We see mothers in fierce, tearless overdrive, like figures from Shakespearean tragedy. ‘My daughter was raised during the siege of Aleppo. I had to make a film for her’ 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z It features a troupe of Shakespearean actors - the Travelling Symphony - roaming a post-apocalyptic world with a Star Trek quote daubed on one of its caravans: "Because survival is insufficient". Will Shakespeare survive the apocalypse? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Asking an actress to strum a ukulele has become something of a trend, particularly, although not exclusively, in Shakespearean productions. A ukulele lady finds her niche in Woolly Mammoth’s ‘Stupid F...ing Bird’ That’s why much of the film’s dialogue plays out like the reading of a board game’s rules while it’s being played, in stentorian tones borrowed from public-television historical dramas and Shakespearean filmstrips. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Slapstick Shakespearean complications ensue, as Brady and Mack try to get the plot back on track by tricking their metafictional counterparts into falling for each other. Television Review: ‘Teen Beach Movie’ Goes Back to the Future 2013-07-18T21:44:52Z In the sketch, a dramatically lit Stewart ponders in Shakespearean English “whether ‘tis the second letter of the alphabet, or some other merry letter.” 11 of the Most Memorable Celebrity Guests on 'Sesame Street' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z If, as the Shakespearean truism goes, comedies end in marriage and tragedies in death, then dramedy ends in both, and then some. Review: Parenthood's Finale Brings It All Back Home 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z “There was pretty intense study, with quizzes on the plots and the characters and memorization exercises. They’d read the roll and as each name was called, a member would recite a Shakespearean text.” Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z Analyzing the song, she suggested that each verse is a miniature Shakespearean play, and that’s how she performed it. Barb Jungr’s Jazzy Songs for Troubled Times 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Secrets are revealed and misunderstandings clarified with the too-neat rush of a last scene in a Shakespearean comedy. From City to Jungle, a New Novel Summons the Politics and History of Two Islands 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, the news of their debuts this week has, in its drama, approached the Shakespearean. In Paris, Dior, San Laurent and Their New Designers 2012-10-03T22:25:55Z Her depiction of Cromwell's vast, capacious intelligence is a near-miracle of composition, and it is tempting to conflate his mind, so Shakespearean in humanity and scope, with the author's. Hilary Mantel's short-story collection long on controversy 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z More than in any other Shakespearean play — even more, I would argue, than in “Hamlet” — the success of “King Lear” depends on that of its title character. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z And what makes this scene Shakespearean isn’t reference to any particular character. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Episode 9: The Brothers McGill 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z A conventional Intro to Drama syllabus could be built around these titles, fleshed out by the usual Shakespearean suspects. Perspective | Why is Washington theater so predictable? 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z It is as rich, entertaining and provocative as The August Wilson Century Cycle or a great Shakespearean work. ‘Father Comes Home From the Wars,’ by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z The knotted destinies of its characters are like the family secrets in a Shakespearean or classical comedy but turned to a darker purpose. | 'Incendies': Scavenger Hunt for Family Secrets Across Time and Geography 2011-04-21T22:24:49Z The result is a play peppered with Shakespearean in-jokes, designed to make audience members who were paying attention in high-school English classes feel satisfyingly clever. London critics fall for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The baritone drew a parallel to another Shakespearean opera, Verdi’s “Macbeth,” and the title character’s hallucination of a dagger. A Decidedly French “Hamlet” Returns to Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Playing Hamlet: Ted Zurkowski of the Frog and Peach Theater Company, a group dedicated to the staging of Shakespearean plays and the reading’s sponsor. Spare Times for Feb. 17-23 2012-02-16T22:35:12Z David Suchet was named best actor for his work in Arthur Miller's All My Sons, with Sir Derek Jacobi winning the best Shakespearean performance award for King Lear. Dench feted at South Bank awards 2011-01-25T16:50:22Z The opening party for Man Ray’s first Shakespearean Equations exhibition included among its guests Igor Stravinsky, Aldous Huxley, Luis Bunuel and Jean Renoir, plus assorted Americans of significant stature. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The praise was amplified by the senior Times critic of the day, Walter Kerr, who wrote, “It is quite possibly the best single Shakespearean performance to have originated on this continent in our time.” Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z The mad, the melancholy, the murderous; brothers, one a Union sympathizer, the other hot for the Confederacy; barnstorming Shakespeareans with lives out of Shakespeare: the Booth family could provide material for a dozen fascinating dramas. | 'An Error of the Moon': Redrawing a Picture of Lincoln?s Assassin 2010-08-31T02:01:00Z He won the prize for best Shakespearean performance, as Iago in Othello at the National Theatre. Henry honoured at theatre awards 2014-01-28T13:57:42Z After touring in a wide variety of plays in Australia, she came to England and got to tackle a succession of Shakespearean roles. Actress Zoe Caldwell, Tony winner for ‘Medea,’ dies at 86 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z White’s 2013 drama is less of a departure than it might seem from the classical repertoire of a theater company best known for its spirited summer Shakespearean romps in Griffith Park. Sharr White's 'Snow Geese' gets an assured West Coast premiere 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Woodward, who declined to be quoted for this article, has privately described the remark as “an almost Shakespearean aside.” In a new book, Bob Woodward plans to reveal the ‘harrowing life’ inside Donald Trump’s White House 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Great things deserve to happen here, and great Shakespearean speeches given. Royal Shakespeare Theatre: All's well ? 2010-11-23T18:43:00Z In a sea of late-90s rom-com takes on classic literature, “10 Things I Hate About You” stood out for remaining faithful to its Shakespearean roots. ‘10 Things I Hate About You’: When Heath Ledger Was Just Breaking Through 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Those wanting a newly coherent view of the play itself should look elsewhere for Shakespearean revelations, on which topic is more later on. Review: Judi Dench Brings Titania to Life Again 2010-02-23T11:35:00Z “I saw it rather like a musical, but the numbers were the Shakespearean verse,” Hall said after Wednesday’s opening night at London’s Noel Coward Theatre. London critics fall for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z He later appeared in “The Private Ear,” “Tartuffe,” “The Public Eye” and Richard Nelson’s “Two Shakespearean Actors,” among other plays. Brian Bedford, Tony Award-winning actor, dies at 80 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But it is exhausting dealing with the higher priests of Shakespearean arcana, who believe that because they are enthralled by book bindings, frontispieces and vellum, then Shakespeare must have been too. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z “Was this a betrayal of Shakespearean proportions, or just time marching on?” Marian Goodman Joins TriBeCa Gallery Throng 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Kaluuya’s character rebels with an almost Shakespearean grandeur, weeping and aflame. Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I'm not a spokesman. No one’s expected to speak for all white people’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z His circle of friends included Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Shakespearean actress Ellen Terry, and other artistic and literary luminaries of the period. John Singer Sargent’s Famous Friends Served as Models for These Informal Portraits 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z You’ll find pieces about actors, scholars, filmmakers, set designers, and, of course, about the plays themselves—the Shakespearean kaleidoscope seen through a New Yorker lens. Shakespeare in The New Yorker 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z In 1981, the theater offered “Shakespeare’s Cabaret,” a collection of Shakespearean songs and sonnets set to contemporary music. Arthur Shafman, 75, Importer of Mummenschanz Troupe, Dies 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z And now it’s going to attempt another Shakespearean structure: an actor-led company. Shakespeare Troupe to Go Without an Artistic Director 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z To perform Shakespeare in some variation of modern dress, he added, “is actually the most Shakespearean.” Perspective | How do you sell Shakespeare in 2020? The Englishman newly heading a storied D.C. theater has a playbook. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z And in between we provide party entertainment in the form of a harrowing Shakespearean tragedy. 'Learning' Lear: Places, Please, for Opening Night 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z On screen, much more ancient, Shakespearean codes prevailed; sex had to have meaning, had to herald marriage or at least ersatz-marriage. Yes, yes, yes! Welcome to the golden age of slutty cinema 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Robert is not a Shakespearean figure like Walter White, but the film at least grants him the moral stature of an incorruptible man risking his life in a dangerous job. Review: In ‘The Infiltrator,’ Bryan Cranston Tunnels Into a Menacing Drug Network 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z But it was also a philosophical matter: an acknowledgment, at times Shakespearean in its acuteness and depth, of what is unknowable — about ourselves, about our fellow human beings and about our mortal fates. Review | Buried deep in a disappointing Rembrandt and Velázquez show are two portraits that demand to be seen 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z For “Caesar Must Die” the brothers brought in a collaborator, Fabio Cavalli, to help distill and shape the Shakespearean text into a screenplay. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Direct ‘Caesar Must Die’ 2013-02-01T22:41:18Z And he knows his way around iambic pentameter, having portrayed several Shakespearean heroes and antiheroes on stage and screen. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z But it hasn't stopped at that, for there's something of the Shakespearean tragedy in the speed in which fortunes have unravelled. Could you make it up? Phone hacking in literature 2011-07-20T13:42:13Z "This is a Shakespearean story that could, should and will be told countless times, and each time someone is going to bring something different to it," Lowe said. Fifty years after Dallas, 'Killing Kennedy' taps into life of Oswald 2013-11-07T13:03:08Z One of Lane’s first scenes on “House of Cards” was with Kevin Spacey, whose Frank Underwood was the scheming Shakespearean center of the show’s pathologically transactional world. The Diane Lane Thing is deep and it’s real. Especially with women. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Then they open their mouths: bickering over billing, accents, Shakespearean triumphs and Samuel L. Jackson. Best Theater of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z This season the Lincoln Center Festival is presenting “The Winter’s Tale,” his 2014 adaptation of that late Shakespearean romance, created jointly for the Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada. Review: In ‘The Winter’s Tale,’ the Silk Flows Better Than the Steps 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The economist preens; the Shakespearean knows that “all scholarly endeavor was eventually . . . tucked . . . into endless paper beds, installed within tombstone covers and seldom disturbed.” “The Shakespeare Requirement” Is a Sad-Professor Satire That Burns with Moral Anger 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z “So you get all the heightened Shakespearean arias from some of the characters and then you get that low side.” ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin’ Is TV’s Latest Big Fantasy Prequel 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z "He was truly Shakespearean - not only physically enormous but enormous in his ambitions, his appetites, his virtues, his vices, his flaws," he said. Actor Bryan Cranston steps into LBJ's shoes for Broadway debut 2014-01-22T22:54:08Z “Shadow” is a martial arts epic with Shakespearean overtones set in a royal court of ancient China. Chinese movie master Zhang Yimou still studying his craft 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Alan Howard, a celebrated English actor whose regal bearing and imposing voice gave life to a spate of Shakespearean kings, died on Feb. 14 in London. Alan Howard, Actor With Royal Shakespeare Company, Dies at 77 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z That film, an almost Shakespearean drama about generational intrigue and conflict in the wine-producing business, will close the festival. ArtsBeat: Rendez-Vous With French Cinema Puts Focus on Renoir 2013-02-05T15:01:05Z Like a stock chart, the fortunes of the four Roy siblings rose and fell over the course of the first season of “Succession,” Jesse Armstrong’s HBO drama about a wealthy media family’s Shakespearean struggles. ‘Succession’ Finale: Jeremy Strong on Kendall’s Struggles and What Comes Next 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z We get an embittered and stubborn old man, not the figure of Shakespearean depth depicted by Melville. SF Opera: A whale, a swan and 2 lovers 2012-10-21T20:33:09Z It was sublime television: The entire Shakespearean rivalry of the Gallaghers, condensed into a single performance. Liam Gallagher Gets His ‘MTV Unplugged’ Moment 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z It could have been a story from “1001 Nights,” with an aging king; a Shakespearean relationship among three princes, one of them adopted; an evil vizier; a beautiful, tart-tongued princess; and a magic dagger. Film: Jordan Mechner?s Multiplatform ?Prince of Persia? 2010-05-22T07:09:00Z I volunteer this personal history because Robert McCrum’s magnificent new book, “Shakespearean,” is about, in part, Shakespeare’s ability to speak to many kinds of people in many different ways. Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z It was thrilling to find the company as a whole so impressively Shakespearean and Ashtonian in its steps, stances and gestures. L.A. Ballet finds the poetry in 1955 version of 'Romeo and Juliet' never before seen in the U.S. 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Custodians of the centuries-old art are treated with the kind of reverence reserved for leading Shakespearean actors. Japanese actor's drunken brawl shocks kabuki theatre world 2010-12-08T12:21:00Z Leontes has reasserted his authority — albeit a healing authority by now — in arranging and condoning the happy marriages that signify the righting of wrongs in Shakespearean comedy. | 'The Winter's Tale': The Cool Ferocity of a King Inflamed by Jealousy 2011-07-24T22:32:50Z The adjective "Shakespearean" is overused and mostly undeserved, but not in this case. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z Whether any of the nominated Fiasco actors and directors would turn up to celebrate their Shakespearean dominance in Washington is another matter. Laura Benanti: Actress, singer and passport courier 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Lew’s script stands out for its dark humor and feminist twist, as the female characters are given the agency they’re otherwise denied in many Shakespearean adaptations. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z There is an element of the Shakespearean to the Donald Trump campaign. The Donald Trump jokes are on us now: This public humiliation should have tanked his politics career — but it only fueled his fire 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The first time I met Ms. Lloyd’s Shakespearean band of sisters was two years ago, at St. Ann’s temporary lodgings just blocks away. Review: ‘Henry IV,’ Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Version 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z They’ll be too busy offering a swift and accessible version of this Shakespearean tragedy, which has toured shelters, prisons and community centers before arriving at the Public. Theater Listings for May 15-21 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z It adds so many extra ingredients to our story, it’s almost Shakespearean. Glenn Close is a six-time Oscar runner-up. Will she finally clinch the statuette for ‘The Wife’? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z He’d rather spend his time mastering karate in preparation for the Shakespearean generals he still hopes to play, or practicing mandolin with his 8-year-old daughter, a budding actress and violinist. David Patrick Kelly, a Character Actor Vibrating on His Own Plane 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Joss Whedon shot Much Ado all over his house and garden Who on the cast was the most accomplished Shakespearean actor? Much Ado About Joss Whedon 2013-06-14T07:15:50Z I would hope to shake things up – not in a negative, destructive way but in a truly Shakespearean way, restoring the authority of poetry in one of the great centres of culture ... Oxford poetry 2010-04-29T14:09:00Z He’s a compelling character, with lavish dreadlocks, Shakespearean regal patter and – nearly forgot – a tiger on a chain. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode two – The Well 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z That novel’s theme of monomaniacal, violent obsession and the Shakespearean cadences of its prose underline what is happening on screen in a way that is only occasionally heavy-handed. | 'Warrior': ?Warrior,? Directed by Gavin O?Connor - Review 2011-09-08T16:26:17Z The plot, aptly summed up by the title, contains the usual Shakespearean mixture of disguises, identity mix-ups, villainous deceit, non-villainous deceit and an innocent party wrongly accused. Review: Buoyant, zestful 'Much Ado About Nothing' 2013-02-20T00:16:04Z “It is adolescent. It is conflict resolution by violence. It is wish-fulfillment, spectacle and diversion – sound and fury, if we want to get Shakespearean.” Blockbusters assemble: can the mega movie survive the digital era? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Chuck, musing in his Shakespearean way, asks when reflecting on the troubled yet inordinately bright life of Leonard: "Is there anything in this world more unexpected than a human being?" 'The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey' shines with humanity 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z The idea was partly modeled on the 2007 “Shakespeare in Washington” festival, which involved organizations across the city of six months’ worth of Shakespearean stagings. Putting women in the spotlight: New festival showcases female playwrights at 45 D.C.-area theaters 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z “District Merchants,” like “All the Way,” is Shakespearean in its use of the past to mirror today. The election is on everyone's mind as SCR presents 'All the Way' and 'District Merchants' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z A magnificent achievement, aspiring to an almost Shakespearean grandeur. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The Shakespearean plot devices don’t mesh with the documentarylike, realistic portrait of the Bronx. Movie Review: In ‘Grand Slammed,’ an Aspiring Pitcher Goes Nowhere Fast 2014-04-25T00:55:20Z Blankenship says the society is collecting “anything flat”: photographs, papers, videos, Shakespearean sonnets written by kids. Historical societies across the U.S. are crowdsourcing pandemic time capsules 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Russia unites so many stories almost of Shakespearean character. Leonardo DiCaprio 'Would Love' to Play Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Movie 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z In addition to taking on two major Shakespearean roles, he is also involved in What You Will: Pop-Up Shakespeare, part of the London 2012 Festival. Mark Rylance goes back to Bard 2012-06-20T08:33:51Z There's no denying the Shakespearean contradictions within Johnson's larger-than-life character, but his virtues and flaws aren't the sole determinants of the play's action. 'The Great Society' a bustle of history lacking full LBJ picture 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Law last worked with Grandage when he starred as Hamlet, which won him an award for best Shakespearean performance. Jude Law returns to London stage in Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie 2011-01-14T13:15:02Z But among many Shakespeareans, the announcement last fall that one of the leading theater companies in America was asking writers to reconsider the entire canon, line by line, was greeted like a potential extinction-level event. Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z There’s no shortage of Orson Welles clips floating around, but there’s something tragic in his Shakespearean bonhomie—every minute he spent on a talk show symbolized days spent not filming. Why We Like to See Directors Talking 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “Citizen Kane” may transcend the newspaper genre, but it also fulfills its implicit promise both by dwelling on the details of the journalistic enterprise and by allowing that enterprise to attain Shakespearean gravity and complexity. Film: The Newspaper Picture: A Genre Explored at Film Forum 2010-04-08T21:41:00Z It’s also not “Shakespeare in Love”; it won’t dazzle you with quick references, wittily deployed Shakespearean lines and so on. Review: ‘Still Star-Crossed’ Goes Beyond Romeo and Juliet 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z But Collinson, whose work is published in Oxford University Press's prestigious Review of English Studies, does not abandon her detective work at the conventional explanation adopted by most Shakespearean enthusiasts. Was the great Dane Irish? That is the question 2011-03-03T00:01:02Z There's even an element of Shakespearean grandeur to "Down Terrace," although I'm not sure a movie as intimate and domestic as this one can really pull it off. Pick of the week: "Down Terrace" 2010-10-22T11:01:00Z A genuinely unshockable culture would surely find public executions and great Shakespearean tragedies equally ineffectual. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z Articulate and smooth, he delivers his advice with the gusto of a Shakespearean actor. Britain’s ‘Gardeners’ World’ is the pandemic escape we didn’t know we needed 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z But though all Shakespearean characters may bleed, at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, they don’t all bleed the same blood — or at least, not the same fake blood. For the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s props director, one blood is not like another 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The duplicitous Burr may be the most Shakespearean figure in the pageant, a gifted man tormented and ultimately undone by his failure to make himself matter. ‘Hamilton’ Review: You Say You Want a Revolution 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Joseph P. Kennedy’s life, Mr. Nasaw observes, “was punctuated by meteoric rises, catastrophic falls, and numerous rebirths, by cascading joys and blinding sorrows, and by a tragic ending near Shakespearean in its pathos.” Books of The Times: David Nasaw’s ‘Patriarch,’ on Joseph P. Kennedy 2012-11-29T21:09:38Z The Shakespearean actor was responding to Meera Syal, who last week appealed to the theatre industry to cater more for Asian audiences. Suzman downplays white theatre claim 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z As her health declined, Shakespearean questions that had seemed abstract — What drives the dissolution of a family? Oscar Isaac’s Mom Died. Now He’s Working Out His Grief in ‘Hamlet.’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Lear is one of the great Shakespearean roles. Sir Derek Jacobi's King Lear to go live at 300 world cinemas 2010-07-29T18:31:00Z The radiant illumination emanates from Hytner’s spanking new headquarters on the South Bank, where his sensational production is winning over even the most skeptical of Shakespeareans. Perspective | How London sometimes outshines the lights of Broadway 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Portraits of Shakespeare and Edwin Booth, one of the great Shakespearean actors of the 19th century, loom above its small, ornate proscenium arch. A Red State’s Arts Blues 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z A Shakespearean troupe in Toronto is performing “King Lear” when the leading man, a onetime matinee idol named Arthur Leander, starts behaving strangely. Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven,’ a Flu Apocalypse 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Mark Rylance, the greatest living Shakespearean actor, is an obvious choice, but not for another decade, please. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z You use incredibly emotive language – “parental negligence”, “browbeaten”, “tragedy” of “Shakespearean” proportions no less – and although you admit to carrying huge anger I wonder if you understand how much that anger is carrying you. My nephew is disabled and it’s his mother’s fault | Mariella Frostrup 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Furr, seen in the Roundabout’s excellent “Importance of Being Earnest” last year, is likewise a superb Shakespearean actor. Theater Review: ‘As You Like It,’ With Lily Rabe in Central Park 2012-06-22T02:00:14Z “The knotted destinies of its characters are like the family secrets in a Shakespearean or classical comedy but turned to a darker purpose,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in April. Video: 3-D Movies Are Taking a New Path 2011-09-09T15:00:00Z And, of course, it’s Shakespearean in more obvious ways. The election is on everyone's mind as SCR presents 'All the Way' and 'District Merchants' 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z But one of the most difficult roles is Otello, because of the singing and acting, the dramatic piece of Verdi combined with Shakespearean drama. Placido Domingo says in good health after surgery 2010-05-18T14:33:00Z Liam Neeson doesn’t have the Shakespearean chops but he has that combination of paternal fury and tenderness that is just what the role requires. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z More traditional productions are also in the festival this summer, including a “Timon of Athens” starring the Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale here at the National Theater that starts next week and runs into October. The World Takes On Shakespeare at London Festival 2012-07-04T21:37:11Z It sounds good, as you might expect with a seasoned Shakespearean actor at the helm, but too rarely succeeds in stopping the heart. Review: Kenneth Branagh’s Short, Shallow ‘King Lear’ 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z He was working with a Shakespearean enthusiast to build a mobile, three-story Globe Theater completely out of repurposed shipping containers. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Janet Griffin, who has steered Folger Theatre on an adventurous Shakespearean course, announced Wednesday that she will retire March 31 after 30 years as its artistic leader. Folger Theatre’s Janet Griffin announces her retirement after decades of devotion to Shakespeare 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z They’re often the ones you hear promiscuously peppering their conversation with the canon’s best-known lines or speaking of failed politicians as “truly Shakespearean.” ‘Shakespeare in Love: The Play,’ in London 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z The return of Shylock is credible as a literary device in the context of a novel lapsing into formal language and rich with Shakespearean references. ‘Shylock Is My Name’ review: Shakespeare for the 21st century 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z “His rise and fall felt so rapid and a little bit Shakespearean. It really left people wanting more because of the way he got jammed up.” Bobby Shmurda’s New Lust for Life 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Branagh's film is closer to the gritty Shakespearean version than Olivier's, though, and does include some of the nasty bits that Olivier cut. Kenneth Branagh's Henry V: right royal entertainment 2011-07-28T08:00:00Z It’s an impressive collection of rare Shakespearean artifacts that connect the playwright to America from 14 institutions, including the Library of Congress, the Folger and the Hollywood Bowl Museum. L.A. exhibition probes Shakespeare-California connections, including a rare Edwin Booth recording 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Ms. Lind — who has appeared as a docile Shakespearean heroine in Public Theater productions — shows a wicked comic wit here as a badge-toting femme fatale. Review: Great Pretenders Pocket Laughs in ‘The Nap’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z He is particularly acute on the ways in which they deceive themselves about the end that awaits them, when, like so many Shakespearean characters, they become wise too late. Review | What can ‘Macbeth’ teach us about President Trump’s next move? 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Speaking of acting and staging trends, they weigh the worth of trying to apply naturalism to Shakespearean verse. Review: In ‘Tea With the Dames,’ Four Legends Dish on Acting and Love 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The notion is a promising one, in that it bolsters the rationale for ASC’s tradition of investing deeply in the entirety of the Shakespearean roster. Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Though Timon’s story takes him from a spirit of largesse to abject nihilism — a bitterness never completely explained by the text — his transformation is recognizably Shakespearean. Review | Shakespeare’s ‘Timon of Athens’ takes a rare Washington bow 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z “I don’t know if it’s Shakespearean,” Horgan said, “but the idiot provides relief. I like that he was someone who was incredibly in control and dangerous, but at times, was also an ineffectual person.” How Sharon Horgan Shaped a Monstrous Brother-in-Law 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Once family and servants flee their former idyll, complications like those in Shakespearean romances come thick and fast. Review: In ‘Head Over Heels,’ Jukebox Musical Meets Elizabethan Romance 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z But without the distraction of Mr. Jones’s Shakespearean grandeur, the play’s flaws, as well as its strengths, are more clearly visible. | 'Fences': Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in August Wilson?s Classic 2010-04-27T02:03:00Z Will Capone realize Nucky stole that quotation from Twain and get even with a plagiarized Shakespearean sonnet? 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Surprise, Surprise 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z You can chuckle only so many times at Mr. Jones’s translation of specific Shakespearean lines into the “Austin Powers”-speak of the London rock scene. Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z There is a Shakespearean quality to Mantel's writing: the mixture of low and high discourse, the political and historical setting, her theme of the rise and fall of great men. Hilary Mantel discusses Thomas Cromwell's past, presence and future 2012-08-15T14:17:24Z Question 4: Which planet's moons are named after Shakespearean characters? Brush up your Shakespeare (in Love) 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Shakespearean sonnets become all of poetry, though there is wonderful poetry being written all the time that’s narrative or whatever would make people feel more comfortable. Saeed Jones: "No One Is Safe" In These Poems 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The first artist to repeat Shakespearean tragedy as farce was Shakespeare: he spoofed “Romeo and Juliet” in the ridiculous performance of “Pyramus and Thisbe,” whose “tragical mirth” concludes “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Not because I expect the season's seven cheftestants to reprise last year's Shakespearean battle for kitchen supremacy between the fiercely rival Brothers Voltaggio. Why "Top Chef" gets me cooking 2010-06-16T15:46:00Z Mr. O'Toole's career included several key Shakespearean roles including "Hamlet," and roles in such films as "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," "The Ruling Class," "The Stunt Man" and "My Favorite Year." ArtsBeat: Peter O'Toole Says He Is Retiring From Acting 2012-07-10T18:57:07Z But it is the wordless visions provided by nature that register as most deeply and tantalizingly Shakespearean. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z The relationship between George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, might just be the most dissected filial relationship in modern history — compared, variously, to Shakespearean history, Greek tragedy and opéra bouffe. '41,' George W. Bush’s Portrait of George H. W. Bush 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z All pageantry is lost, of course, including the usual Shakespearean delights of royal-watching and stage combat. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ That Is More Prose Than Poetry 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z While last week’s resolution to the Camilla and Mimi saga carried the weight of a Shakespearean tragedy, Episode 13 advanced some plot quirks that have been plaguing us for months. ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 13: Of Family Secrets 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Globe on Screen offers viewers a chance to see Shakespearean theatre performances in high definition, and also famous pre-recorded ballet performances from the Royal Opera House. Cine-files: Greenwich Picturehouse 2013-05-07T16:16:21Z For me, a good blasting of Shakespearean insults sung dramatically to an instrumental accompaniment wakes up any sluggish brains. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z Monahon giddily mines comparisons between her character’s earnestness and her modern namesake, and her sharp writing blends Shakespearean lowbrow humor with contemporary concerns. Review: In ‘Jane Anger,’ Revenge Is a Thorny Uphill Climb 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The Shirt is displayed near a series of homages, like a photographic re-enactment featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, and as a parallel Shakespearean example, a series of 18th-century porcelains showing famous actors as Richard III. ‘Will & Jane’: Two Literary Superheroes, United in Pop Culture 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Logan: I see Thomas Wolfe as one of those great flamboyant Shakespearean characters that I love to pieces. Duos of 'Genius': A. Scott Berg and John Logan, Colin Firth and Jude Law, Maxwell Perkins and Thomas Wolfe 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Schmidt, who recently adapted “Cyrano” into a stage musical and whose play “Mac Beth” recast Shakespearean tragedy among vicious high schoolers, has a way of uncovering and magnifying the profundity simmering underneath everyday conflict. ‘Lucy’ Review: There’s Something About the Babysitter 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z But I know there's a Shakespearean tragedy lurking somewhere in the backstage drama that has resulted in director Julie Taymor being ousted from the troubled show that she had spent the past nine years nurturing. Julie Taymor and 'Spider-Man': Punished for Ambition 2011-03-11T09:35:00Z It is not all as seamlessly integrated as previous Pointless visions; at 2½ hours, it is a full Shakespearean sprawl, and Matt Reckeweg’s crisp shadow puppets are accents here rather than star players. Review | Women’s Voices notes: An exotic ‘Imogen’ and a down-home ‘Hound’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z "I thought, 'Can we do a Shakespearean ape drama?'" 'X-Men,' 'Spider-Man' follow-ups thrive, but sequels aren't all equal 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The interpolated spoken dialogues add both context and complexity to the Berlioz original, which didn’t include the crucial Shakespearean plot twist that nearly derails the wedding of two major characters. Seattle Opera, with help of a few friends, presents opera-play hybrid ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The Kennedy saga is “one of the great Shakespearean tragedies of our time, with a great family that has done some wonderful things, and that had some flaws,” Mr. Prupas said. ArtsBeat: 'The Kennedys' Will Still Receive Worldwide Broadcast As Producers Seek a New U.S. Home 2011-01-10T19:33:00Z Mr. Dillane is on hand playing “Monsieur Melancholy,” otherwise known as Jaques, the cynical lord whose “all the world’s a stage” here sounds like natural chat, not something downloaded from a Shakespearean Top Ten. Review: In Shakespeare, When to Underact? 2010-06-29T14:30:00Z Related: The 10 best modern takes on Shakespeare – in pictures I met McKellen at the BFI last month to quiz him about his choice of the 10 best Shakespearean performances on film. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z There are enough opportunities for mistaken identity here to populate a Shakespearean comedy. I’m not Ann Patchett: Confessions of the human behind a Twitter account 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Give the man a third Olivier for quick thinking on the Shakespearean spot, not to mention for one of the most complete performances — roisterous and ruminative, as needed — yet seen at this Thames-side address. Review: Onstage Risks and Rewards 2010-07-27T11:06:00Z Gertrude Stein frequently used this line in her work as a reference to Juliet’s famous speech in the Shakespearean play. The Complete Guide to All Westworld's Many References 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z To add other material is quite legitimate, as Renaissance scholars keep reminding us when discussing the collaborative norms of Shakespearean theatre. Dido and Aeneas; Aurora Percussion Duo, Bartosz Glowacki; Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien – review 2013-01-13T00:06:16Z Documentary reality and Shakespearean performance merge as real-life inmates perform Julius Caesar in a Rome prison. This week's new films 2013-03-02T06:00:09Z If The Wire, the only series worthy of being bracketed alongside The Sopranos, reminded of 19th-century novelists like Dickens and Balzac in its extensive depiction of societal layers, then The Sopranos was Shakespearean. The Sopranos: 10 years since it finished, it's still the most masterful show ever 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Yet, with the tragic self-destructiveness of a Shakespearean figure, he nearly loses everything due to an "unfortunate incident" on air. | Hadley Freeman 2010-05-12T08:00:00Z If you like a touch of Shakespearean mystery in your drama, check out "Double Falsehood," a play of murky historical origin about betrayal, star-crossed lovers and hidden identities. Liar tricks friends, lovers in 'Double Falsehood' 2011-03-23T02:29:08Z It takes an almost Shakespearean level of inspiration and execution to turn this play about inaction into a dance, but it’s not impossible. Washington Ballet’s ‘Hamlet’: Madness without method in it 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z But “The Great Society” is Shakespearean only in its bellowing; the poetry of consciousness has largely been boiled away. Review: In ‘The Great Society,’ Another Presidential Nightmare 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Essentially “The Enchanted Island” is Shakespearean fan fiction. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z “Face/Off” is, at heart, a film about mistaken identity, a device with deep Shakespearean roots, and the play “Face/Off” incorporates several of Shakespeare’s most famous scenes and soliloquies. Two Comedy Writers Take “Face/Off” to a New Level of Weirdness 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Trump is, as he once noted in his typically Shakespearean way, “like, this great loyalty freak.” Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Byrne's Irish accent was at full strength, though O'Neill specifies that James Tyrone "got rid of an Irish brogue you could cut with a knife" to become a Shakespearean player on the American stage. Even with Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne, 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' fails to connect 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The Columbia University scholar James Shapiro, writing in The New York Times, said it set a “disturbing precedent,” and threatened to gut “the only thing Shakespearean about his plays”: the language. Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z O'Toole, whose birthplace is most frequently said to have been Connemara, County Galway, and who has always emphasised his Irishness, won acclaim on stage earlier in his career in several key Shakespearean roles including Hamlet. Peter O'Toole bids acting 'a dry-eyed and profoundly grateful farewell' 2012-07-11T00:31:17Z The flowery rhythms of Portis' dialogue, delivered with almost Shakespearean flourish, were tough enough for the seasoned actors, let alone a newcomer. Teen actress shows true grit in Coens' new Western 2010-12-24T00:42:06Z As a whole, it does not quite work, especially at the end, when Mr. Chan tries for a Shakespearean climax of filial rebellion and paternal rage. Movie Review: ‘Dragon (Wu Xia),’ Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan 2012-11-29T23:01:20Z Midsummer,” the Shakespearean play that has occupied most of Taymor’s time and imagination as of late, also was the first play she ever saw. Director Julie Taymor to receive prestigious ‘Will’ Award 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z I felt that people were coupling up more than in a Shakespearean comedy. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z In the Shakespearean canon, “Titus Andronicus” is singular: It’s the one in which the queen finds out that the main ingredient in the meat pie she’s eating is her sons. ‘Titus Andronicus,’ From New York Shakespeare Exchange 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Although it can often be trying in less experienced hands, Shakespearean comedy tends to flourish at Stratford, in part because it is often entrusted to veterans like Mr. Dow and Mr. Davies. Christopher Plummer in Stratford, Ontario 2010-07-09T04:28:00Z The Shakespearean text is spoken with ringing cogency. Get thee to Vancouver, B.C., for Bard on the Beach 2011-09-07T20:33:06Z Neither represents a landmark of 21st century Shakespearean stagecraft, but taken together they illuminate what makes this fearsome tragedy so difficult to tame on stage. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z He confides his plans in Shakespearean asides while President Trump spills to 31 million Twitter followers. The Trump Administration Shakes ‘House of Cards’ Hard 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The opening panorama – a painfully slow tracking shot of peasants trudging towards Lear’s castle – is one of the great set pieces of Shakespearean cinema. The best Shakespeare films – ranked! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z “The Ruling Class” blithely employs Victorian-music-hall-like vignettes, while “King Charles III” is rendered in the rolling blank verse of Shakespearean theater. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Raphael created his histories five decades before Shakespeare was born, but they are Shakespearean in their richness. Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries 2010-09-06T14:32:00Z Another dramatic portrait of a black man, this one Shakespearean, is in the form of a technically impressive bust at Bowman Sculpture’s booth. At Armory’s Winter Antiques Show, Volumes of Variety 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z For a Shakespearean king the title character doesn’t get much stage time in “Cymbeline.” Critic’s Notebook: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, ‘Henry V’ and ‘Cymbeline’ 2012-08-19T21:11:38Z A British director with Shakespearean and ballet credentials, Nancy Meckler, came to Disney, along with a large and talented cast of actors, dancers and singers for a nearly two-hour version performed without intermission. Shakespeare in Disney Hall: An L.A. Phil 'Dream' deferred 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z This is an exciting production that shows why Branagh is such a fine Shakespearean actor. Macbeth – review 2013-07-06T00:16:17Z Nor does Ms. Kapil’s fertile imagination stop at revising Shakespearean history. Suspending Disbelief in a Savage ‘Endgame’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Of course both these Shakespearean dukes eventually find their rightful roles restored: who knows what twists and turns the Miliband narrative might follow. Romulus and Remus. Prospero and Antonio. David and Ed... 2010-09-27T10:37:00Z Broadly effective rather than subtly nuanced … The Crucible This seductive summer venue thrives on Shakespearean comedy and musicals. The Crucible 2010-06-03T20:30:00Z She grew up in Nashville wanting to act in Shakespearean plays. What if Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Told Their Love Story? What if It Were a Ballet? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Hale calls Titian's portraiture "Shakespearean", but like Shakespeare the connoisseur of human individuality remains somehow anonymous, nondescript. Best art books of 2012 – review 2012-12-01T11:00:01Z Nevertheless, the theater became central to the production of Shakespearean plays in America. Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Conn., Is Destroyed by Fire 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z A native Scotsman and a renowned Shakespearean stage actor, he has earned two Laurence Olivier Awards and was named a commander in the Order of the British Empire. How Brian Cox Felt About That Big Episode 3 Twist in ‘Succession’ 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z The idea for a Kashmiri “Hamlet” originated last year, when Mr. Bhardwaj was seeking a vehicle to complete his trilogy of Shakespearean tragedies. ‘Haider’ Angers Hindu Nationalists but Excites Film Critics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s set within a Canadian Shakespearean theater company whose former bad-boy leading man has returned, after years in a psychiatric facility, to direct “Hamlet.” What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Party Down,’ ‘Preacher’ and ‘Phoenix’ 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But at this “Betrayal,” I sometimes felt his lean, elliptical sentences were as prismatic as Shakespearean soliloquies. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Surprised by 'Betrayal' 2011-07-13T16:31:48Z “Hamlet” is the third Shakespearean ballet that Stephen Mills, artistic director of Ballet Austin, has brought to Washington in just over 10 years. A balletic ‘Hamlet’ takes one giant leap from Texas to Washington 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “And the luckiest thing happened: Our waiter was drunk, he came lurching on like a Shakespearean clown, and that put us both at ease and made our meeting so easy.” Interview: Eudora Welty 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Collectively, they tell a story that is part political thriller and part courtroom drama, with moments of Shakespearean grandeur and swerves into stumblebum comedy. Review: ‘Watergate’ Shocks Anew With Its True Tale of Political Scandal 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z "We thought that some of these themes seemed to be somewhat Shakespearean," Clooney said. George Clooney rules out political bid in US 2011-08-31T19:46:03Z The time is 1942, right before his death, and he is struggling to stage “Richard III,” his first Shakespearean triumph. Movie Review: ‘Barrymore’ Stars Christopher Plummer; Érik Canuel Directs 2012-11-14T23:24:22Z One of these spectacular Shakespearean words, “incarnadine,” which has the meaning already when he uses it in “Macbeth” as “red,” he uses it as a verb. The director of Folger Shakespeare Library on inventing words, abusing language 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The Welsh baritone Geraint Evans brings a Verdian voice and Shakespearean style to the title role. Critics Pick Recordings to Celebrate Verdi’s Bicentennial 2013-12-26T22:00:58Z He was cast in plays from contemporary to Shakespearean, from Washington to the Old Globe in San Diego, plus roles for TV and film. An overnight sensation after 45 years in the biz: Denis Arndt, Mary-Louise Parker's co-star in 'Heisenberg' 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z She told me that, for O.S.F., she had no interest in writing something along Shakespearean lines. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Branagh, a renowned Shakespearean actor on stage and the big screen, will pick up the Variety Award for focusing the international spotlight on British cinema. British Indie Film Awards honor Fiennes, Branagh 2011-11-23T12:36:23Z That’s enough to fill at least five acts and a full Shakespearean three hours, while Mr. Cain must settle for a mere two acts and just over two hours. Theater Review | 'Equivocation': If He Can, Above All, to His Own Self Be True 2010-03-03T03:00:00Z The book begins with Wilson’s victorious welcome in Europe for the Treaty of Versailles; the rest follows like a haunted Shakespearean tragedy in vivid novelistic prose. 17 Great Books About American Presidents for Presidents’ Day Weekend 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Costume Design The nominees are, as usual, from mostly period films, spanning the centuries from Shakespearean times to the 1930s. The Carpetbagger: Oscar Nominees in the Crafts Categories 2012-02-08T23:50:10Z “I was going to be a Shakespearean actress,” Linda Hamilton recently told The Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Front Runner’ and ‘The Emoji Movie’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z But this is still a landmark discovery for English literature – a third Shakespearean structure to add to the tourist map, alongside south London's Globe and Stratford. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-08T17:15:49Z But even in his less successful Shakespearean ventures, like last season’s “Macbeth” with Ethan Hawke, Mr. O’Brien can be relied on to have a clear, holistic view of the play. Lily Rabe in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Central Park 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z “Give me your hands, if we be friends,” he says — a Shakespearean plea for applause that transforms into something else as Puck stretches out his arms to clasp hands with a spectator below. Digital Theater Isn’t Theater. It’s a Way to Mourn Its Absence. 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z In my teens I saw great Shakespearean performances. Shakespeare and me: Sir Ian McKellen 2012-06-30T23:07:03Z And they weren't the only designers thinking about that Shakespearean play. If you're a top designer, you gotta have a theme 2012-09-14T19:50:11Z These productions were ingeniously mounted, but their success hinged on the simple recognition that, as Harold Bloom once observed, “Shakespearean drama is ultimately a theater of mind.” Summer Shakespeare: A critic's take on the secret to theatrical success 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Coriolanus' unsuccessful run for a consulship, his banishment from Rome and his subsequent campaign against the city are covered partly as breaking-news television footage - complete with Shakespearean language. Fiennes modernizes Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" 2011-02-14T17:14:27Z But the allegory here is the Bush dynasty and the ties that bind and estrange the generations in that Shakespearean knot of tension so familiar to higher pedigree crime drama. "Blue Bloods" a welcome return for Tom Selleck 2010-09-24T06:30:00Z There’s a Shakespearean grandeur to the deluded Borkman as he staggers shaggy-haired into the snow, speechifying to the night sky like Lear cast out into the storm. Dark Clouds Over London Stages 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z During a Los Angeles interview, Michael Sheen said that Brown's situation would be a "brilliant kind of Shakespearean tragedy" if it didn't affect so many people. British actor sees Brown as Shakespearean tragedy 2010-05-13T01:31:00Z Black also endowed a chair for Shakespearean studies there. A Donor’s Ties to Epstein Are Criticized at MoMA and Dartmouth 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Another characteristic of the Shakespearean romance that Butterworth assimilates is the requirement for magic — the human characters are in such bad straits that a little extra help is needed to resolve the situation. ‘Mammals’ Review: James Corden Gets Back to What He Does Best 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z In the show’s opening minutes, Macras gives us a potpourri of Shakespearean scenes in a jittery pantomime. Review: ‘Drama’ Contains Many Things. But Drama Isn’t One. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Could I harness some of this to try and involve them at a deeper level with Shakespearean language and sentence structure? Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z Featuring a dissertation on the rights and wrongs of sharia law, chunks of Shakespearean history, a very bouncy mattress and a mind-boggling sausage, it's a barnstorming comeback. This week's new live comedy 2013-02-23T06:00:10Z “Oh, stop, this isn’t Shakespearean, not even a little. And don’t compare the women to witches.” “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z "This was betrayal on a Shakespearean scale," said Henriques, who plays herself in the film. 'Wizard of Lies' tells Madoff story as 'dark tragedy' of betrayal 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Though he has now directed a thick slab of the Shakespearean canon, it's the histories – with their thrilling mix of steely realpolitik and warring ideologies – that have most fired Boyd's imagination. A life in theatre: Michael Boyd 2012-11-16T12:43:29Z A few minutes later I was standing inside the Great Synagogue’s tiny counterpart, an ancient hall that seemed to resemble a rundown Shakespearean theater more than a house of prayer. Next Stop: In Pilsen, Beer?s Not the Only Thing on Tap 2011-05-27T18:52:25Z Especially one so determinedly unfashionable as Venice — a grandiose, over-the-the-top, melodramatic mix of political allegory and Shakespearean tragedy, set to hip-hop music by a white guy from the suburbs? Venice: A Hiphop Dystopia Comes to New York 2013-06-19T09:45:17Z Many moments in these solos are like the sudden exclamations and figures of speech that make some Shakespearean soliloquies so present-tense. Critic’s Notebook: Former Merce Cunningham Dancers at Philadelphia Museum 2012-12-23T22:53:57Z That, in turn, is as it should be for a putative Shakespearean “comedy” about the workings of desire that has rarely seemed quite so dark. Review: Judi Dench Brings Titania to Life Again 2010-02-23T11:35:00Z “This is all very Shakespearean, with the family, all the people taking over the kingdom,” said Michael Medavoy, a producer who knows Mr. Redstone. In the New Hollywood, Sumner Redstone Is a Man Out of Time 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z “Station Eleven,” a quiet dystopian novel, unfolds in North America after a deadly super flu has wiped out most of humanity; a band of Shakespearean actors travels to scattered camps of survivors to perform plays. Fiction Long List Announced for National Book Awards 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The same is true in drama: they are looking to recognise human behaviour, whether it's a Shakespearean king, a Scorsese gangster or someone in the Prince Albert. Jason Isaacs: this much I know 2013-05-11T17:59:01Z This week: A Golden State-themed makeover of a Shakespearean fantasy, an ancient Greek tragedy with a gospel twist, and a new adaptation of a classic French farce. L.A. theater openings, June 14-21: 'California: The Tempest' and more 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Wesson plans to lead from the front lines by challenging all the other city council members, as well as the city attorney and city controller, to flex Shakespearean muscles on camera. L.A. Mayor Garcetti reads the writing on his wall to raise money for Shakespeare youth troupe 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s a tragedy almost Shakespearean in its proportions. My nephew is disabled and it’s his mother’s fault | Mariella Frostrup 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s Shakespearean, but in the sense that nearly everyone is Iago. Starz?s Politics Drama Boss: Powerful But Messy, Just Like Its Subject 2011-10-21T12:23:02Z Michael Urie returns to star in retiring artistic director Michael Kahn’s final Shakespearean staging for the Shakespeare Theatre Company, set in a modern surveillance state in Denmark. The best theater events of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z There are also plenty of swords and Shakespearean couplets. Double, double, toil and trouble: 'Macbeth' comes to screens 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z She’s a natural for the king, Henry IV. And, by the way, the woman who plays the woman who plays the king is Harriet Walter, one of the great Shakespearean interpreters of her generation. Review: ‘Henry IV,’ Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Version 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Each of these men is a desperate misfit -- the stuttering prince and the would-be Aussie Shakespearean -- badly in need of a new friend and a bit more self-esteem. "The King's Speech": Colin Firth's Oscar-bound performance 2010-11-24T02:01:00Z A version of this article appears in print on March 20, 2014, on page C1 of the with the headline: Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion . Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z As a Black actor who has had the chance to play many of the plum Shakespearean roles, had I been looking at his work through rose-colored glasses? Giving Shakespeare the Tough Love He Deserves 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z We are quite shocked when theatrical knights and dames don't have much to say about their great Shakespearean roles. Lynne Truss: rereading Four Lectures on Shakespeare by Ellen Terry 2012-07-27T21:55:01Z James Brining's production reminds you that, for all its throat-slashing gore, Sweeney Todd owes as much to the arc of Greek and Shakespearean tragedy as it does to Victorian melodrama. Sweeney Todd 2010-05-26T20:45:00Z And it’s almost Shakespearean, the way it’s written, the juxtaposition of the graveyard scene with the Christmas morning scene. Scrooge summit 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Indeed, the actor prepared for his latest role as thoroughly as he might for the part of a Shakespearean hero. Patrick Stewart enters 'a new world' of comedy with 'Blunt Talk' on Starz 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z His slumping presence suggested not only the end point for generations of rust-belt workers but also the collapse of the Shakespearean protagonist. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z His productions of “Titus Andronicus,” “King Lear” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” revolutionized contemporary Shakespearean stagecraft. Portrait of the artist as an ageless man: At 92, Peter Brook treads a different path through 'The Mahabharata' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Other winners at the Critics' Circle awards included Sir Anthony Sher, who received best Shakespearean performance for his role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of the epic Henry IV Parts I & II. Mark Strong honoured for Miller role 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z As in Shakespearean comedy, all is swiftly untangled, but with a genderqueer twist: Musidorus, having grown attached to his female alter-ego, wonders if she isn’t an essential part of his identity, worth keeping around. “Head Over Heels,” Reviewed: A Trans-Positive Spin on a Sixteenth-Century Romance, with Help from the Go-Go’s 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z I could have chosen anything from Duke Ellington's wonderful suite of jazz poems inspired by Shakespearean characters, Such Sweet Thunder. Readers recommend: songs about Shakespeare – results 2013-02-14T14:00:01Z Dance’s friend and fellow actor Tim Pigott-Smith sent a video message that tried to make the case that some Game of Thrones dialogue has a Shakespearean metre, at least the way Dance delivers it. Charles Dance: 'Thank God the BBC didn't make Game of Thrones' 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z I am not a Shakespearean scholar, but I have hiked around in this habitat, and “Shakespearean” is the first such tome that I have found not only thought-provoking but also moving and inspirational. Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z We had a surfeit of Shakespearean songs this week. Readers recommend: songs about Shakespeare – results 2013-02-14T14:00:01Z It is a Shakespearean romp that might have made a hit Elizabethan-era reality show: "The Housewives of Windsor, England." Theater roundup: Merry wives and misbehaving ducks 2011-04-21T21:52:04Z Like the concluding scene of a Shakespearean romance, it interlaces a variety of jangling, disparate elements into the semblance of cosmic harmony. Review: Being Brainwashed Into Joy in Derren Brown’s ‘Secret’ 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z And I was reminded that in his grasp of the specificity and ultimate elusiveness of human motives, Mr. Frayn is - dare I say it? - almost Shakespearean. ArtsBeat: In London, a 'Henry V' That Doesn't Take Sides 2012-06-27T15:15:09Z "The negative is that we don't have a Shakespearean theatre functioning on its exact original site. Probably we never will. " What happened to Shakespeare's theatres? 2014-04-23T06:29:19Z In a protean acting career, he played King Lear and other Shakespearean roles and appeared in countless television shows, from “The Twilight Zone” to “Gunsmoke” to “Dynasty.” Theodore Bikel, singer, activist and Oscar-nominated actor, dies at 91 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z He has seesawed between charismatic criminals in films like “Go” and “Live Free or Die Hard,” and checkered heroes in projects like the FX legal thriller “Damages” and HBO’s Shakespearean western “Deadwood.” Television: Timothy Olyphant in Elmore Leonard?s ?Justified? on FX 2012-01-05T12:00:00Z Within 10 days Britain's two most captivating Shakespearean interpreters have taken to the stage to recreate antiheroes. Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z The first one proposed made no mention of requiring the study of Shakespeare, an intolerable deficiency in the view of the resident Shakespearean. Review | A thriller set in Trump’s America is among the best audiobooks of the month 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Stanley Wells, a Shakespearean scholar who is the honorary president of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, said in an email that “Hamlet” routinely loses 600 to 800 lines in performances. Could You Shorten That Aria? Opera Weighs Cuts in the Classics 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Part Shakespearean history play, part “The Big Short,” “Junk” tells the story of how debt overtook value as the path to enormous wealth. Seduced by Ayad Akhtar's 'Junk,' the new play that picks apart the Wall Street playbook 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z The Booths — headed by Junius, a mercurial Shakespearean actor — were a liberal, vegetarian, antislavery family, and Fowler sets their personal drama and conflict during the years heading up to the Civil War. 14 New Books Coming in March 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z His last screen credit came playing the Shakespearean clown Verges in a 1984 TV version of Much Ado About Nothing. Dad's Army star Clive Dunn dies 2012-11-08T09:55:45Z Do we actually want Shakespearean drama, or a simulacrum thereof, in comic-book movies? "Thor": All hail the ripped Aryan goofball! 2011-05-05T01:01:00Z The moment where Duggleby realises that time is cruelly against him is as marked as the turn in a Shakespearean sonnet. Money Box Live | Radio review 2010-04-01T05:45:00Z As the three become acquainted, the film’s tone darkens, and Mr. Kline brings his Shakespearean expertise to Mathias’s anguished soliloquizing about his troubled family and his father’s negligence. ‘My Old Lady’ Stars Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z What it takes is a comprehensive vision of justice—one that’s rich in spiritual, even metaphysical overtones—which Lee realizes in ghostly visions of a Shakespearean power. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z At first, such language might sound like it is signifying low-rent Shakespearean tragedy. 'Scoreboard, Baby': a portrait of crime and complicity during the 2000 Husky football season 2010-10-21T20:13:00Z With a concentration in Shakespearean performance, he found a job and a home in Virginia in 1973. Montgomery native honored for work in Shakespeare 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Roberts emerges as a Shakespearean figure of forceful magnetism who fights mightily against being viewed as a walking metaphor for the Holly’s struggles. ‘The Holly’ Review: The Tragic Case of a Denver Activist 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The apercus tumble down torrentially: Emily Dickinson is “supernally intelligent” and a “radical nihilist”; Edgar Allan Poe’s “verse is of a badness not to be believed”; Herman Melville “is the most Shakespearean of our authors.” Harold Bloom takes on 12 American greats in ‘The Daemon Knows’ 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z It has this humanity, which is so appealing and to me very Shakespearean. A Monteverdi Master Returns to His Roots With a Rare Trilogy 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z This week, three local performances — only one Shakespearean — celebrate collaborations between actors and musicians. Perfectly in tune, onstage and in the pit 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z In later life he became well-known for Shakespearean roles. British actor Richard Briers dies at 79 2013-02-18T14:34:08Z With its cascades of mistaken identities, loves lost and regained and human and supernatural agencies, the Ægypt quartet is Crowley’s most overtly Shakespearean work. John Crowley's new epic 'Ka' is a late masterpiece in a stellar fantasy career 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z But who needs heightened Shakespearean drama when details have such a peculiar charm? Exhibition Review: Shakespeare Folios as Venerated Relics 2011-07-07T12:01:10Z But, like a Shakespearean comedy or a rowdy game of croquet on the resort lawn, the books fence in their own lunacy and uphold convention at their core. The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Beneath the Shakespearean insults and the Upper East Side penthouses, there was something empty at the heart of “Succession.” ‘Succession’ Is Over. Why Did We Care? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Instead, it waxes and wanes with its cast, some of whom are fully up to the task posed by Shakespearean dialogue and some of whom just aren't. "The Tempest": Helen Mirren's sadly elegant mom-magician 2010-12-10T22:30:00Z He made friends with an American visitor, the black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge; the two men, through translators, would discuss oppression and escape. Antiques: Current Events Imperil Ukrainian Museum Show 2014-04-24T21:32:44Z The theater piece is written in deliberately Bard-like blank verse and alludes to Shakespearean plots. Trump gets a bold Shakespearean twist in new play ‘The 47th’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z But the Shakespearean counterparts are at most touchstones for the fully developed characters Gratton writes. Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel: What’s New in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Bradley, the great Shakespearean scholar, contended that the play was "too huge for the stage." Globe's compact 'King Lear,' at the Broad, lacks needed heft 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The 50-year-old McSweeny, an accomplished Shakespearean director who was running a theater on his own for the first time, said he had “finalized his departure from ASC” this week after 2½ years at the helm. Ethan McSweeny resigns as head of American Shakespeare Center amid financial peril and staff complaints 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z But the journey for a man to reach that point felt quite Shakespearean to me, or even Faustian. Staging Oppenheimer's nuclear story 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z There’s a sort of Shakespearean heightening of vernacular going on, isn’t there? What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The first season of this Canadian dramedy follows a group of actors in a Shakespearean theater company in the small fictional town of New Burbage. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Eric Idle’s the Entire Universe’ and Dolly Parton 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z A more "as you find it" experience was chosen: a pair of Shakespearean theatres linked together with a weave of empathetic new architecture, creating a convincing and effective whole. Royal Shakespeare Theatre: All's well ? 2010-11-23T18:43:00Z Last week, the center announced an international playwriting contest, in which $25,000 prizes are to be awarded annually for contemporary “partner” plays for each of 38 Shakespearean works. Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z And that’s not just Shakespearean, it’s also to me very topical. A Monteverdi Master Returns to His Roots With a Rare Trilogy 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Lengthening its season and expanding its touring program, he put on well-received productions of classic plays, including “Oedipus the King,” “Cyrano de Bergerac,” “She Stoops to Conquer” and Shakespearean works. Michael Langham, Classical Theater Director, Dies at 91 2011-01-20T05:56:02Z One of the most successful entries in the cycle so far suggests the vitality of the Shakespearean model. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z “District Merchants” manages to be a lucid and even at times agreeably lighthearted introduction to a Shakespearean comedy that has been attacked over the years for its strong whiff of anti-Semitic caricature. Shylock goes to Washington in ‘District Merchants’ at Folger 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z In Iago's Demise, Faith and the Muse address a quintet of Shakespearean heroines, with their "possible futures", "doting lovers" and "obvious endings". Readers recommend: songs about Shakespeare – results 2013-02-14T14:00:01Z He energizes his soldiers with grandiloquence bordering on the Shakespearean, warning of “bloodthirsty rogues and unrepentant cutthroats bent on nothing short of our pitiless destruction.” ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Mitchell is deep in rehearsal for the stage adaptation of Ben Elton’s Shakespearean sitcom The Upstart Crow, in which he plays the lead. David Mitchell: ‘I see myself as a coward’ 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z What the people did with the language was Shakespearean! A life in writing: Selma James 2012-06-08T21:45:05Z They have in the past covered classic Greek tragedies, Shakespearean tales and historical subjects like the sinking of the Titanic, Lady Diana and Osama bin Laden’s attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. AP Photos: Pandemic-hit theater back in India’s northeast 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z In that sense, it seems that Fassbender, who is currently also starring on screen as Macbeth, found a properly Shakespearean tragic hero in Silicon Valley. Steve Jobs: the afterlife 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z When Booth died in 1893, he was considered by many to be the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. L.A. exhibition probes Shakespeare-California connections, including a rare Edwin Booth recording 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Norrington is strong on the work's metaphysics, on the almost Shakespearean sense that disturbance in nature is linked to convulsions in the souls of men. Idomeneo 2010-08-23T14:15:00Z Even his Shakespearean asides to the camera in the arch style of Richard III don’t amount to much. Season 3 of ‘House of Cards’ Starts With More Policy Than Chicanery 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Political humor, always a strong suit of Siguenza's, is mixed in with Shakespearean rants, including Falstaff's famous meditation on the nature of honor. Delightful 'El Henry' is a multicultural mash-up 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Picard is, of course, portrayed by Patrick Stewart, an actor with a clear, forceful, Shakespearean voice that lends gravitas to even the most nonsensical dialogue about shield modulation and warp factors. All hail Will Smith and Tom Hardy, Hollywood's bad accent kings 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z I’ve only just started it and can so far confess to fascination and pleasure; the wealth of detail and the measured tempo are up to the Shakespearean complexity of Welles’s character. What We’re Reading This Fall 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Shakespearean characters ignited important dance careers and have been interpreted by the biggest stars. Shakespeare: huge dance fan. Check out these Bard-themed dances on DVD The first Shakespearean phrase I underlined during this period was “skirmish of wit,” about the raillery between Beatrice and Benedick, which inspired a lifelong expectation that romance must include snark. Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z But he brings some complicated, wounded intensity to his role, and while his sotto-voce delivery sometimes edges into near-parodic Shakespearean overstatement, he effortlessly holds your attention, as do the sublimely chill Douglas and Pfeiffer. ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Review: Splat 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Bill, learning about Greek tragedy and Shakespearean drama from the celebrated teacher Sawyer Falk. Jerry Stiller, Comedian With Enduring Appeal, Is Dead at 92 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Speaking in a pseudo-British accent and affecting Shakespearean diction, he is the butt of merciless comic bashing. Movie Review: John Stalberg Jr.’s ‘High School,’ With Adrien Brody 2012-05-31T22:21:00Z “Station Eleven,” a quiet dystopian novel, unfolds in North America after a deadly superflu has wiped out most of humanity; a band of Shakespearean actors travels to scattered camps of survivors to perform plays. Shortlists for National Book Awards Announced 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z His dream is to take on a big Shakespearean role, in the original language. Wallander's Krister Henriksson: 'I'd like to play King Lear' 2013-04-07T16:59:01Z The Hensley-inspired productions elsewhere are almost exclusively Shakespearean titles, though the Light Fantastic, a fledgling New York company, is in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign to fund “The Glass Menagerie.” Theater Troupe Gives Those on the Margins a Front-Row Seat 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z There Mr. Rylance performed in his first major Shakespearean production, as a 16-year-old Hamlet, with his father playing the First Gravedigger. Putting the Juice in ?Jerusalem? 2011-04-07T19:58:14Z Producers said Tuesday "The two-hour show will take audiences on a voyage through Shatner's life and career, from Shakespearean stage actor to internationally known icon and raconteur." William Shatner to star in a one-man Broadway show 2012-01-11T01:46:11Z But, from the start, the most striking thing about Drake was the Shakespearean romances that shaped his music. A Peek Back at Early Drake on “So Far Gone” 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z One of the most keenly awaited Shakespearean performances of recent times – Sir Derek Jacobi's King Lear – is to be broadcast live in more than 300 cinemas across the world. Sir Derek Jacobi's King Lear to go live at 300 world cinemas 2010-07-29T18:31:00Z Here's a look back at some of Mirren's royal stage roles, many of which were Shakespearean monarchs. Helen Mirren in 'The Audience': Royalty becomes her 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Of the three, Keach has appeared on the most Washington stages, portraying such Shakespearean monarchs as Lear, Macbeth and Richard III. Hurt, a septuagenarian Brit, is probably the best known. Backstage: Michele Shay takes up familiar ‘Seven Guitars’ Otherwise, for all the novel’s close attention to its Shakespearean source, there is not much of a role for Caliban in these pages. Margaret Atwood rewrites Shakespeare. Who will do it next — Gillian Flynn? Yes. 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z He spent a year in the mid-1960s touring the United States with a Shakespearean theater company and worked for several years at his family’s company. D. Keith Mano, Christian novelist who explored extremes of sex and faith, dies at 74 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Indeed, she shone in roles for which her classic good looks — the warm mouth, perfect oval face and eyebrows worthy of a Shakespearean sonnet — might be an irrelevance or a disadvantage. Eleanor Parker: More Than Just the Sound of Music Baroness 2013-12-11T03:11:54Z It renders the horror of Germany in the 1930s as a kind of Shakespearean tableau. Review: ‘Max Beckmann in New York,’ a Belated but Full-Blown Homage to a German Modernist 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z That elderflower, Curacao liqueur and vodka combination is called “The Drowning Ophelia,” but most entries are not so much inspired by Shakespearean scenes as they are plays on his words. Director Julie Taymor to receive prestigious ‘Will’ Award 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Mistaken identity, reunited families and losses restored are, of course, the stuff of Shakespearean romance. 'Bright Star' at the Ahmanson: Bluegrass, tears and a big, vacuous smile 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Actor Gerard Depardieu has likened the story of Dominique Strauss-Kahn to a Shakespearean tragedy after the premiere of a new film inspired by the French politician's fall from grace. Strauss-Kahn story 'like a tragedy' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z While purporting to contemplate the modern phenomenon that is fan fiction, “To Tell My Story” is of course itself a fan fiction, riffing off Shakespearean characters and events. Review | What would happen if Hamlet was a girl in the Internet age? 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Charles Keating, an actor known onstage for Shakespearean roles and on television for playing a villain on the NBC soap opera “Another World,” died on Friday at his home in Weston, Conn. He was 72. Charles Keating, Soap Opera Villain and Shakespearean, Dies at 72 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z When she graduated in 2006, she assumed that “being posh with curly hair basically equals a Shakespearean career,” as she once joked to British Vogue, but instead she struggled to get any work at all. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Will Make You Laugh So Hard It Hurts 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Among the prizes up for grabs, Sir Patrick Stewart is offering a private Shakespearean recital while the three-times Man-Booker-nominated author Sarah Waters will join the winner's book group. Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley donate works for Labour auction 2013-03-20T13:25:12Z “I don’t find it vulgar, though. I find it Shakespearean bawdy.” What follows 'Bright Star'? For Steve Martin, it's 'Meteor Shower' 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Chekhov meant a serious comedy, like any great Shakespearean comedy, a play with an optimistic vision of the future. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z To my surprise film took over, but there were always a number of plays I wanted to work on, and I was continuing to have conversations with people like Judi about Shakespearean acting. Kenneth Branagh Returns to the Stage, With More Roles 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z “How did you find your way to my bedroom?” the bride asked in a Shakespearean tone, treating the amused guests to a more modern, more colloquial version of a scene from “Romeo and Juliet.” A Lonely Walk in the Rain Leads to Love, Finally 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z This is a comedy, not a Shakespearean tragedy. The Marvellous and Unlikely Fete of Little Upper Downing ? review 2011-02-28T22:45:00Z Exploring cruelty is what Mr. Crouch is after in his latest riff on a Shakespearean character, the manservant Malvolio from “Twelfth Night.” Tim Crouch on ‘I, Malvolio,’ His One-Man Show at the Duke 2013-01-12T01:36:17Z “I mean, it’s a great character. And he sort of takes over the play till the end, the big Shakespearean finale, when things resolve and everything pays off in a wonderful way.” Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Broadway – Nathan Lane! 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z First there are the Shakespearean tragedies and histories, especially Macbeth and Richard III, which Pushkin himself invokes. Boris Godunov – review 2012-11-29T12:07:28Z The mood is more existential, and the lyrics are often more oblique; some songs are named after Shakespearean women, like “Ophelia” and “Cleopatra.” Review: The Lumineers Return, Weary and Disillusioned 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z For mine, well, whatever it comes across as in reality, the thought process behind it was one of a watered-down Shakespearean pronunciation. A fine Roman 2011-03-19T00:03:00Z Even so, that was the second tier of his theatrical portfolio; he was first and foremost a Shakespearean, one who brought febrile intensity and fierce intellect to his preparation. Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z A consummate Shakespearean, he never filmed “King Lear,” but he lived it, finding himself to be a king without a throne, prematurely aged. “The Other Side of the Wind,” Reviewed: A Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The Musical,” at the Pleasance Courtyard, is a madcap interpretation of the Shakespearean tragedy set to music played by a live band. Keeping You Entertained (and on Your Toes) 2010-08-27T22:59:00Z When I see a Shakespearean comedy and there's someone dicking around with a root vegetable," says Basden, "I just think, 'you are ruining the play. Move over McIntyre: Kafka comics lead a standup revolution 2010-11-22T16:38:00Z Mike Bartlett’s speculative drama, written in Shakespearean blank verse, has a sharp grasp of politics, the private lives of very public figures, and the logical absurdity of the British monarchy. Top 10 Plays & Musicals 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z So it is as a fictional construct -- based on ample public sources, however -- that "Mark Zuckerberg" achieves its Shakespearean dimension. "Social Network" a mesmerizing, must-see movie 2010-09-21T23:39:00Z When it debuted, the premise seemed familiar to the point of Shakespearean. 'Empire' reigns among viewers on strength of characters and cast 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z The plans for the musical — which, before the coronavirus shut down American theater, was to have had a trial run in Chicago — represent a wild pivot for a Shakespearean company. Britney Spears and . . . Shakespeare Theatre? Built on an unlikely coupling, a musical with her songs might be bound for Broadway. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z “But I was the lowest of lows,” he told The Los Angeles Times in 1992, and after playing Shakespearean extras for a while, he decided to move to New York City. Paxton Whitehead, Actor Who Found Humor in the Stodgy, Dies at 85 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Ellington composed his suite after being commissioned by the Stratford, Ontario, Shakespeare Festival to create music linked to Shakespearean characters like Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Lady Macbeth, Puck and Hamlet. Delfeayo Marsalis pairs jazz, The Bard in new work 2011-01-19T22:08:08Z To celebrate the 450th anniversary of his birth, there were eight Broadway and Off Broadway productions on offer — enough, surely, for even the most ravenous Shakespearean appetite. Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z Robert Carsen’s charming 2013 production, which places Verdi’s Shakespearean opera in 1950s England, will see a makeover this season, thanks to a twist of casting. The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z If he abandons his infuriating Shakespearean patter while he’s at it, then the show will be all the better for it. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode three recap – Monster 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Amis seems to be writing a romance, in the late Shakespearean sense. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z But how exactly was it put together by curator Dora Thornton and consultant Shakespearean Jonathan Bate? Shakespeare: Staging the World – review 2012-07-19T13:14:31Z It’s Chiu-ti, however, who carries the weight of the movie’s Shakespearean emotions. Review: You Quit? Think Again, ‘Sword Master’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z More than credibly performing parts of famous Shakespearean speeches, and discussing some of the great actors who've done so, DeVita also relates or enacts seminal events in his own and Shakespeare's lives. Review: Bard comically humanized off-Broadway 2013-01-14T22:26:07Z “Pericles,” “Hamlet” and “The Taming of the Shrew” are some of the Shakespearean offerings, but there’s plenty of range — “The Sound of Music” is on the calendar, too. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Synetic, founded by artists who emigrated to Washington from the nation of Georgia, was already a fascinating addition to the city’s vibrant Shakespearean tapestry. Most foul: Senator singles out Synetic’s ‘silent’ Shakespeare 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z To add further fury to this media tempest, the BBC reported on a proposed program to teach children to model themselves after Shakespearean heroines rather than pop culture figures. Though she be but little, she is fierce: Kim Kardashian West is a Shakespearean heroine for our times 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z There is a Shakespearean irony to all this: Capote’s fall was swift and unsparing. We’re still talking about Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball 50 years later. Here’s why. 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z In Shanghai, he meets a once and now again famous Shakespearean actor, Jiao Huang, and watches him weep as he explains why he had not been on the stage for nine years during the 1960s. Travel: Philip Marsden’s ‘Rising Ground’ and More 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Women trained in everything from speaking verse to stage combat routinely bristle when their rare chances to exercise Shakespearean skills get roped off for men. D.C.’s women’s theaters, emerging on the cheap 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Aldridge, who will be played by Adrian Lester in Lolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet, was considered one of the great Shakespearean actors of his day, having played Romeo, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear. Rare painting of Ira Aldridge discovered in garage 2012-09-26T12:22:08Z This was achieved through a combination of playfulness and originality which goes back to a Shakespearean tradition of outdoor performance. The best performance I've ever seen: Tom Morris 2010-03-28T00:07:00Z James Miller McLure Jr. was born on Aug. 5, 1951, in Alexandria, La., and grew up in Shreveport, where he played lead Shakespearean roles in high school plays. James McLure Dies at 59; Wrote Garrulous Plays 2011-02-23T06:21:35Z Anthony Perkins wasn’t nominated for “Psycho,” and, just as Alfred Hitchcock himself never won for Best Director, no actor in a Hitchcock film, besides the Shakespearean Laurence Olivier, in “Rebecca,” was ever nominated. Free Yourself from the Cult of Marlon Brando 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z But that Shakespearean model, with its focus on kings and the high-born, is wedded, one might argue, to the Great Man theory of history. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Which for a Shakespearean character may well be the ultimate tragedy. | 'Women of Will': Tamed or Tragic: Tina Packer?s Tour of Shakespeare?s Women 2010-06-24T21:25:00Z A few weeks later, Mr. Bhardwaj met Mr. Peer in New Delhi, and they began collaborating on the screenplay, drawing on Mr. Bhardwaj’s mastery of Shakespearean adaptations and Mr. Peer’s journalistic realism. ‘Haider’ Angers Hindu Nationalists but Excites Film Critics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Godwin, who directed the Roundabout’s overeager “Cherry Orchard” last season, accouters his staging with a hodgepodge of contemporary Shakespearean production clichés apparently designed to render the play more approachable. Review: In ‘Measure for Measure,’ Desperately Seeking Solutions in a Problem Play 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z A good starting point for tackling Shakespeare is the art of nonsense and as pupils walk into the lesson, greet them with this presentation on Shakespearean Insults, in particular the first slide. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z It’s hard to tell where the book’s sympathies lie — it reads as contemporary satire with Shakespearean echoes — but the baby boomers’ own verdict is “meshugas.” Daniel Torday’s New Novel Pits Young Against Old 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z And for no other reason than he liked the sound of it, Lee wrote Thor's dialogue as biblical/Shakespearean. Comics: Thank God it's "Thorsday" 2011-05-04T17:48:04Z This is where I’d take the deep dive into Dylan’s world of folk songs, alluring Shakespearean characters, twisted Biblical imagery, and the urgency of the Civil Rights movement. How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan: A 57-year collaboration about my home state of Wisconsin 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The last third of the evening, in which Launcelot's love for Guenever propels England into civil war, is profoundly Shakespearean, though that still leaves the problem of the disparate nature of Malory's material. Morte d'Arthur 2010-06-18T20:29:00Z When we were cutting the film, every moment of his story feels Shakespearean in a certain way. Director Morgan Neville on “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead” and the last years of Orson We... 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z James: But that's part of the gift of James Baldwin, he's so timeless in his language, like Shakespearean in a way. Barry Jenkins: "'People in Korea don't want to watch black characters,' you can't say that anymore" 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s a standard Shakespearean comedic setup, with an added helping of philosophy — a few of these characters are also deep thinkers. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ on Asphalt, From Shakespeare in the Parking Lot 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Its production of “King Lear,” starring Mr. Waterston as that tragic Shakespearean monarch and directed by James Macdonald, will begin performances on Oct. ArtsBeat: Public Theater Unveils Its 2011-2012 Season 2011-04-26T16:44:10Z Playwright Louis James Brenner said he budgeted $500 to pay for an ASL interpreter for his Shakespearean spoof, “Better a Witty Fool,” but couldn’t find one. Some Fringe troupes say performing at Gallaudet posed an unfair burden 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z A “future history play,” Mike Bartlett’s Olivier-winning drama mixes Shakespearean intrigue with tabloid-worthy backbiting in this work about royal jockeying for power after the queen kicks the bucket. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z For instance, in an encore turn, the Shakespearean actress loses the thread of her monologue and begins to reminisce about her career. Happenstance’s gleeful hat tip to vaudeville with a wink to the present-day 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Remember when a Shakespearean actor could be an American superstar? The Week Ahead: Aug. 29 ? Sept. 4 2010-08-26T15:25:00Z As he did with "War Horse," Morris is collaborating with the South African-based Handspring Puppet Company to produce the new version of the traditional Shakespearean play. 'Warhorse' director brings puppets to Spoleto 2013-06-01T14:35:08Z When she came home from work one day, the hamster, as if in a “Shakespearean drama, climbed into my hand, made eye contact and just died.” A new wave of comedians is exploring the anxieties of our Instagram age 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Out came the best Shakespearean hub-bub I had ever heard in my life. Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z We are musing about the surprising linguistic affinities between Treknobabble and Shakespearean iambic pentameter – both of which Stewart is fluent in, having spent sizeable chunks of his five decades in acting immersed in them. Patrick Stewart: 'I can store emotions. No experience is ever wasted' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z So on that level, I think all of these people are Shakespearean. Helen Mirren Hits the Road 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Perhaps that’s why playing a Shakespearean heroine requires not just poise but a hint of sourness. Michael Schulman: Lily Rabe in “Much Ado About Nothing,” at the Delacorte 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Garber is a celebrated Shakespearean scholar who has been heralded as “the queen of American cultural studies” and “one of the most powerful women in the academic world.” What Is Your True ‘Character’? And Who’s to Judge It? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z And despite the fact that Shakespearean plays have been casting men as women for around 400 years, for these two, it’s still awk-ward. The Bachelorette Watch: London Calling 2012-06-12T12:30:46Z He resumed his stage career after the end of the war and in 1953-54 he appeared in a number of Shakespearean roles as part of the company at the Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. British actor Tony Britton dies aged 95 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z “My Shakespearean career is conspicuously short,” Hurt said, relaxing at his hotel between a visit to the Hirshhorn Museum and dinner at the Oval Room. John Hurt receives Shakespeare Theatre Company’s annual award I want Shakespearean, and if that means a character suffering, so be it. Breaking bad: Hollywood wakes up to the power of dark, dangerous women 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z There is on display a remarkable seating plan that Charles Dickens drew up for his own wedding in which each guest is characterized by a Shakespearean quotation; Dickens could presume such familiarity. Critic?s Notebook: ?Making History? and ?Remembering Shakespeare? at Yale 2012-03-22T22:50:43Z Two major productions of “King Lear” are taking place on opposite sides of the River Thames, but for London audiences this embarrassment of Shakespearean riches is as normal as autumn’s gunmetal skies. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The story of “The Conquest,” Xavier Durringer’s lightly fictionalized examination of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ascent to power in France, may be Shakespearean, as its director insists in the film’s production notes. | 'The Conquest': ?The Conquest? Sarkozy Made - Review 2011-11-10T23:13:46Z As in so many Shakespearean comedies, lovers are nearly thwarted by a case of mistaken identity. On many area stages, tattoos are all the rage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The first two episodes maintained the Shakespearean tension between these codependent antiheroes; since then the balance has been off. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 8: ‘That’s Not This Story’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The best jokes are also critical observations, eg that Shakespeare's Othello "is a man who seems curiously aware that he is speaking Shakespearean blank verse". How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z As Shakespearean scholar Jan Kott noted: "Ancient tragedy is loss of life, modern tragedy is loss of purpose." John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z And finally, there are fantasies, such as the Academy Award-winning movie “Shakespeare in Love,” which imagine a Shakespearean life as full of romance and tragedy as a Shakespearean play. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z When he wrote about it at Telluride, A. O. Scott said the film “blends academic satire, classic Jewish humor and an almost Shakespearean sense of the tragic potential of the paternal bond.” ArtsBeat Blog: Joseph Cedar Discusses 'Footnote' 2011-10-11T20:30:09Z “I guess they’re going to shut the state borders to anything that is Shakespearean?” she said. Catching Up With Hillary Clinton at “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’” 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z How has your experience as a Shakespearean actor prepared you for this role? After Scalia’s death, and the election, Edward Gero reflects on his role in ‘The Originalist’ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z And on the sidelines, the Duke, now disguised as a friar, watches, kibitzes and finally steps in to take charge again, through means that include that most unsavory of Shakespearean devices, “the bed trick.” Theater Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ Full of Dual Natures and Hard Choices 2014-03-02T23:23:31Z But in an odd way, all of Ms. Bailey’s actors somehow feel incidental to a study in Shakespearean atmosphere that yet again pushes this largely al fresco space in startling new directions. Review: Satiric Assault on the Origins of Scabrous Male Bonding in Politics 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z Tupac was many things to many people – an activist, a revolutionary, a Shakespearean, a hip-hop artist, a gangster, an overall fascinating individual. "Don't bite your tongue for no one": Tupac's mom, Afeni Shakur, taught him how to rebel and prevail 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Tennant has a wonderful way of demystifying Shakespearean verse without patronising it, mining every word for maximum humour or pathos. David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' ? interview 2011-08-19T21:58:02Z The sense of squandered opportunity suffuses director Rosa Joshi’s debut production for Folger, and it’s a shame, because the talents of that premier Shakespearean, Edward Gero, are stranded on a middling evening. Review | The Folger turns one of Shakespeare’s histories into a problem play 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z All of these characters clash in a huge Shakespearean drama involving murder, infidelity, blackmail and lies. Comics: 'Batman: Year One' adaptation true to original 2011-10-18T17:37:04Z McCormack started his career playing classical and Shakespearean roles before becoming a household name in his Emmy-winning turn as neurotic Will Truman on "Will & Grace." "Will & Grace" star returns to TV in "Perception" 2012-07-05T20:19:14Z With his bugged-out eyes and skull’s smile, Mr. James makes his Shakespearean rival in matrimonial jealousy, Othello, look restrained. Review: In This ‘Winter’s Tale,’ the King Is Insane. It’s as Simple as That. 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z And while love is generally the happy ending of a Shakespearean play, blind love comes freighted with perils. Murdoch could learn from Shakespeare 2011-07-12T19:00:01Z Incidentally, poetics fans, it's a Shakespearean sonnet, a form she does rather well. Selected Poems by Sophie Hannah – review 2013-05-21T13:02:48Z And then there are the Shakespearean Richards: Richard II, who was forced to abdicate the throne; and Richard III, the murderous tyrant. ‘King Richard’ Finds Fresh Drama in Watergate 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England — Have you ever wanted to step into the shoes of a great Shakespearean actor? Ball Gowns, Lace Ruffs and Fairy Wings: Theater History for Sale 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Check it out at wapo.st/conv1376; this week, Shakespearean humor from various Invite contests over the years. Style Invitational Week 1376: Get thee to a funnery 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z But the movie disappointed at the box office, perhaps a sign that audiences may not find this particular family’s Shakespearean dysfunction as fascinating as the creators do. The ‘Trust’ Equation: Wealth and Power Equals Misery 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Oskar Eustis, who runs Shakespeare in the Park and the Public Theatre, told me that he considers “Hamilton,” which he helped to develop, the most successful American version of a Shakespearean history play. American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z This season’s Shakespearean lineup also affords audiences the chance to see productions from the company’s outgoing artistic director and its incoming one. Critic’s Notebook: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, ‘Henry V’ and ‘Cymbeline’ 2012-08-19T21:11:38Z I was amused by an interlude titled “Give the Bard a Break,” directed at journalists who festoon their copy with Shakespearean allusions. The Value and Virtue of Good Writing (Rule No. 7: Don’t Be a Bore) 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Winningham renders madness with the brusque straightforwardness and lopsided wisdom of a Shakespearean fool. ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z LBJ, I suggest, is the most Shakespearean of American presidents, a figure worthy of Lear and Falstaff, Caesar and Macbeth. ‘Every country has its fearmongers’ – Bryan Cranston on Trumbo and Hollywood’s blacklist 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z You might think of Dromgoole’s new book, “Hamlet Globe to Globe,” as the Shakespearean equivalent of Bourdain’s TV series, “Parts Unknown.” For this globe-trotting Hamlet, all the world’s a stage 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z But in fact, he personifies the classic Shakespearean weakness: blind love. Murdoch could learn from Shakespeare 2011-07-12T19:00:01Z Tour guide Judy Savage describes the Booths as “America’s greatest Shakespearean actors.” How a museum dedicated to ‘The Mad Booths of Maryland’ deals with infamy — and fame 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Livermore, in his fourth consecutive La Scala premiere, set the Shakespearean tragedy in a contemporary city of skyscrapers, with video images projecting a dystopian fate as it falls to Macbeth’s tyranny. Despite pandemic, famed Italian theater opens season 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Dense with resonant metaphors and alive with discomfiting ideas, “The Mirror and the Light” provides a fittingly Shakespearean resolution to Mantel’s magisterial work. Review | ‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z His company of performers, a mix of professionals and amateurs, speak Shakespearean verse with conversational ease, and we can always understand what they’re saying and what they mean. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z "Shakespearean tragedies are convention-bound, narrative-driven tales of lust, intrigue and murder designed to appeal to the broadest possible cross-section of society," he says. Gregg Hurwitz is full of thrilling, erudite contradictions 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z This is one of the Shakespearean story lines that happen over and over in television. 2010-01-22T06:43:00Z At least these Shakespeareans make it to the dessert course before things go seriously awry. Review: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ and Its Wronged Queen, via the Pearl Theater Company 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Finally the master manipulator played by Brian Cox — the Scottish Shakespearean and star of HBO’s “Succession” — will become interesting as a dramatic character. Review: In ‘The Great Society,’ Another Presidential Nightmare 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z These are core Shakespearean questions, to be sure: How do we decide what is true morality, and what is social convention? “Cymbeline”: Ethan Hawke, Dakota Johnson and Ed Harris highlight a weird Shakespeare update 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z This was all build-up to a unique showdown in which Mr. Colbert challenged Mr. Kline to perform key Shakespearean characters using only facial expressions and grunts. Much Ado About Grunting: Kevin Kline and Stephen Colbert's Shakespeare Showdown 2010-07-28T12:57:00Z "It's still based on Shakespearean characters and themes and there are still composed character portraits." Delfeayo Marsalis pairs jazz, The Bard in new work 2011-01-19T22:08:08Z “He’s so theatrical—I almost think of it as a Shakespearean thing, so it doesn’t surprise me that he caught on in Britain when he did,” she wrote in the same essay. 4 Ways David Bowie Influenced Musicians Today 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Those two operas, along with Verdi’s Shakespearean tragedy “Macbeth” and Bernstein’s musical comedy “Candide,” make up this summer’s repertory at the Glimmerglass Festival. At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Like them, Dowd did more with silence than most performers could have done with a Shakespearean monologue. Actress Ann Dowd is a revelation away from the ensemble pack 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Having cut her teeth interrogating the merely famous, she upgraded to the high, the mighty, the Shakespearean movers-and-shakers. A new biography gets Oriana Fallaci the way people who knew her couldn't 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z As staged by Mr. Vaughan, Howard Taubman wrote in a review in The Times, the production “reinforces his reputation as an intelligent and ardent Shakespearean.” Stuart Vaughan, Director and Shakespeare Expert, Dies at 88 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z His latest London performances are hot tickets, and not just because Rylance is one of Britain's leading Shakespearean actors. Mark Rylance reigns in Shakespeare double bill 2012-11-19T12:31:15Z The latter moment still makes George Lucas’ most unwieldy screenwriting faux pas look like the finest Shakespearean verse. From Rey's dark side to Snoke's identity – the questions Star Wars: The Last Jedi must answer 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z What is so seductive about Krymov is his Shakespearean ability to blend high and low art. A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It) – review 2012-08-15T17:05:47Z And of course, the Shakespearean struggle over "Tonight" did not stop there. David Letterman vs. Jay Leno: Why did Dave get the finale love denied Jay? 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, they belong to enemy factions that engage in fiery rap battles, which goes to show that futuristic America is just like Shakespearean Verona of “Romeo and Juliet.” Theater to Stream: ‘Wicked in Concert,’ Christopher Lloyd as Lear 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z "Or if you do something in a Shakespearean manner, or if you reference American movies or gangster talk or hip-hop – those all work much better in English." Funny foreigners: how overseas comics are storming Edinburgh 2010-08-17T20:31:00Z “I used to leap out of the hovel semi-naked every night, shouting impenetrable Shakespearean mad talk,” he said. Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Shakespearean Mood Swings in Progress The young man has been caught by his best friends in a seriously compromising position. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ Loosely Speaking, in Central Park 2013-08-13T02:00:01Z After studying drama in Manchester, he worked in radio and on theatre, building a reputation as a Shakespearean clown. Harry Potter actor Richard Griffiths dies after surgery 2013-03-29T13:17:51Z Your line delivery in “Her Smell” is this bizarre combination of punk patois, Shakespearean grandeur and manic rambling. Elisabeth Moss Has a Reputation for Darkness. ‘Her Smell’ Is No Exception. 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z In fact the whole production, with its Brookish bamboo canes, Shakespearean plot and Korean music and dance, is an eloquent testament to the fusion of the best of east and west. The Tempest ? review 2011-08-15T17:30:01Z Many working on soap storyline development clearly use Greek and Shakespearean tragedy as a starting point. Oedipusenders 2010-04-14T05:45:00Z The leader of that troupe is a Shakespearean thespian named Mr. Pricklepants, voiced by Timothy Dalton. film: To the Second ?Toy Story? Sequel, and Beyond! 2010-06-12T12:03:00Z The book has a Shakespearean quality to its language and drama. The Mark Twain of hip-hop: How Iceberg Slim’s “Pimp” changed pop culture 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z But Michael Sheen is also a fine Shakespearean actor, whose Romeo and Henry V were highly acclaimed early in his career. Sheen for Hamlet 2010-05-13T07:34:00Z Directorial conceits are applied delicately, in keeping with the gentler threads of this Shakespearean romance, balanced on the precarious edge of comedy and tragedy. Review | ‘The Winter’s Tale’ should warm your heart. This one leaves you cold. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Of all the possible Shakespearean sequels, "Macbeth II" seems among the least likely. 'Dunsinane' at the Wallis held back trying to land big message 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z A similar dynamic can also be found in certain Shakespearean comedies that feature female characters assuming the guise of men -- and earning the misguided affections of another female character in the process. Allison Williams in 'Peter Pan' continues a cross-dressing tradition 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z But I am also a fan of Shakespearean tragedy, and for that I point you to Mr. Dorrit’s narrative arc. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 3: Little Dorrit 2012-02-03T18:42:02Z Whoever wrote it - and Shakespearean experts continue to debate the origin, even though a reputable publisher, Arden Shakespeare, recently put its seal of approval on the play - the CSC production is very entertaining. Liar tricks friends, lovers in 'Double Falsehood' 2011-03-23T02:29:08Z He may be one of the UK’s most celebrated Shakespearean actors and the star of many hit TV shows, including Broadchurch and Good Omens, but for many people Tennant will always be Doctor Who. Doctor Who: David Tennant voted fans' favourite Time Lord 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z A younger member of the company, Ira Aldridge, would later travel overseas where he made a career as an internationally renowned Black Shakespearean actor. A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z With another backward glance at West Side Story, Adams called Ceiling/Sky "a Shakespearean love story". America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z “It was not the sort of thing you’d expect to be asked to do,” said Mr. Tennant, who is equally celebrated as a Shakespearean leading man onstage and as a former star of “Doctor Who.” For ‘Gracepoint,’ David Tennant Recreates ‘Broadchurch’ Role 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The other performances featured music from Purcell’s “Fairie-Queen” with text from “Midsummer” and selections from a 1674 opera setting of “The Tempest” with Shakespearean dialogue. Concert of late Renaissance music inspired by an unlikely source 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Typically they operate sort of within the realm of Shakespearean roles, but their first role since coming back after pandemic lockdowns was in a community theatre production of "Clue." If entertaining is a domestic performance, let Thanksgiving be camp 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z She was, she relates, determined to be a Shakespearean actress. | 'A Night at the Tombs': Bianca Leigh Reflects on Life, at Bowery Poetry Club 2010-07-14T21:56:00Z But the play is a classic, and Thomas brings Shakespearean chops and a reservoir of deep understanding to its most important role. G. Valmont Thomas shines in ‘Master Harold’ 2013-04-12T19:33:04Z Combine two vintage television series, then infuse them with Shakespearean plots. Theater Review: The Brady and Partridge Families Battle in ‘The Bardy Bunch’ 2014-04-09T18:32:22Z The next stanza borrows the famous Shakespearean metaphor of world as stage, people as players. Poem of the week: Going, Going... by Leah Fritz 2011-08-22T09:18:53Z Irish Traveller feuding is dramatised with a mix of Shakespearean mythologising and true-to-life characterisation. This week's new films 2013-03-30T06:00:10Z Read up on the aftermath of the "Shakespearean" drama here. | Simons vs. Slimane; Burch vs. Burch 2012-10-05T22:07:25Z This time the play is Richard II, which could provide even greater challenges than Hamlet, widely regarded as the "Everest" of Shakespearean roles, said Doran. RSC to stage Mantel novels 2013-01-23T18:09:20Z And most movingly, Joélle Harvey as Simon’s daughter, Miranda, searches for her father’s spirit like a Shakespearean innocent, with a simple, effortless soprano. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z Both are impeccable Shakespeareans in verse speaking and lucidity of expression. Review: ‘Cymbeline’ Unspools Its Many Plot Twists at the Delacorte Theater 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z But mostly Ms. Arbus depends on the excellent cast to squeeze the ripe Shakespearean language for all it’s worth. Review: A Moving ‘Winter’s Tale,’ With Women in Charge 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z In one of the most popular videos, a small Mansfield sits cross-legged in an armchair before a Christmas tree and performs the children's book "The Polar Express" with the gravitas of a Shakespearean actor. How one young actor is using American Sign Language in animation 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The Shakespearean offerings include one comedy and one tragedy. Kahn’s final season to include a rare staging of ‘The Oresteia’ 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Lost at times in the linguistic shuffle is the wistful ache underpinning a comedy that, as is the Shakespearean norm, unveils grievous emotions on the way to its knockabout finish. A Mexican-Style ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z We learn that when Edwin Booth, the Shakespearean actor, heard what his brother had done, he said, “It was just as if I was struck on the forehead with a hammer.” Museum Review: Lincoln?s Legacy at Expanded Ford?s Theater Complex 2012-02-10T13:00:00Z The film posits a Shakespearean power dynamic where Lynne is pulling strings behind the scenes. How Bale and Amy Adams became the Cheneys in ‘Vice’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z In other Shakespearean productions, “I’ve played a lot of rogues and clowns,” he said. The many sides of Puck come out in three versions of ‘Midsummer’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The British send their actors to school for the sound reason that playing Shakespeare well takes a ton of technique, and Shakespearean actors are what English theatrical culture is designed to produce. Free Yourself from the Cult of Marlon Brando 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Wallace: When I play Shakespearean characters, because those characters are largely fictional and subject to interpretation, if I’m playing the Scottish king, I’m just a black Scottish king. Scrooge summit 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Those riches are something that this exhibition — “Fame, Fortune & Theft: The Shakespeare First Folio” — nearly takes for granted, which it has every right to, given the Shakespearean halo that hovers over the Folger. Exhibition Review: Shakespeare Folios as Venerated Relics 2011-07-07T12:01:10Z “There’s a really rich story here — not just about women battling men, but a really interesting intergenerational battle” that’s “almost Shakespearean in its complexity.” Friendship, Betrayal and the Fight: ‘Suffs’ Tells the Suffragist Tale in Song 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z As much as the hurly burly of the Coen brothers’ movies might seem distant from Shakespearean tragedy, their films are crowded with schemers seized by misguided ambitions — just usually more farcical ones. Joel Coen distills ‘Macbeth’ down to the bone 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z She has a winningly ribald rapport with the Cook, in particular, even if the vibrant Mr. Thompson, a brilliant and natural Shakespearean, is not as clearly a natural for the stylizations of Brecht. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z “What am I to nature: Just a hot dog on a roll?” he inquires balefully, his own Shakespearean rhetoric given a specifically New York pulse. Theater Review: Clifford Odets's Dentist, Anything but Painless 2011-04-05T13:30:07Z For Kirsten, this is the manifestation of her life's purpose; she announces to Jeevan that she knows she wants to be a Shakespearean actor on the night they meet. HBO Max's must-watch "Station Eleven" brings comfort and joy after the eerily familiar apocalypse 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z More regal than ever at 81, she can speak Shakespearean verse with mellifluous intelligence; a former Merce Cunningham dancer, she can invest simple pantomime with gravitas. Review: A ‘Lear’ With Hops, Spins and Posturing 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z In all my podcasts, one of the most exciting guests to me so far has been Stephen Greenblatt, who is the Shakespearean scholar and professor at Harvard. Tina Brown pulls no punches: "If you're a woman, you have to be gold in a silver job" 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z For Mr. Scheer a major test was to capture the rugged Shakespearean music of the author’s voice. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z If it resembles anything, it's a Shakespearean tragedy, with its complex web of allegiances and weighty themes of revenge, mercy, loyalty, and, of course, what it means to be "human". Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z He's made an outing into a theatrical event, and turned a decorative space into a vital one, by expanding the ossified Shakespearean repertoire; his productions let rip. The Late Middle Clases; The Crucible; Ingredient X 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Hall wasn’t content to rest on his Shakespearean laurels. Remembering theater director and Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall, who turned language into life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z But his colleagues know Matthews best as a maestro of the intricate world of Shakespearean drama, the man who can tell you exactly how to untangle a thorny text from “Henry IV.” Transmitting Shakespeare to the Next Generation 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z This is where the Shakespearean story line gets infected by the noir.” Stage Is Set. Ready for Your Part? 2011-03-18T19:00:51Z In his grief over the loss of his wife, Kemp commits an act so heinous that it sets in motion a story almost Shakespearean in scope. A New Zealand Novel Full of Taciturn Men and Wooden Dolls 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Under a parking lot nearby, archaeologists have discovered London’s second-oldest and best preserved Shakespearean playhouse: the 16th-century Curtain Theater, or the “wooden O” that premiered “Henry V” and “Romeo and Juliet.” Cultured Traveler: Underground London 2014-01-17T21:43:10Z Mr. Weiner, she added, brought the appeal of an “almost Shakespearean” figure: “intense self-awareness, real insight and then complete blindness.” ‘Weiner’ Covers a Political Campaign Set on Self-Destruct 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The show became famous for the way McShane’s character cut Shakespearean rhapsodies with frequent and emphatic use of profanity. Please let the HBO “Deadwood” movie rumors be true 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “Fearless,” her second album, dropped when I was 11 — filled with stories of unrequited crushes and Shakespearean romance and knights in shining armor. I Used to Be a Taylor Swift Fan. ‘Miss Americana’ Reminded Me Why. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Like other journalists over the decades, he will delight in dredging up their darkest stuff — the drug addictions, the Shakespearean dysfunction, the tragic kidnapping and ransom drama that they’ve spent 45 years trying to forget. Growing Up Getty 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Biographers only recently started poring over the voluminous documentation that Henry Clay Folger and his wife, Emily, made of their purchases of Shakespearean works. Anti-Aging Measures for Disney’s Animation Cels 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z And the greatest evidence of Shakespearean lust may have been Henry Folger’s relentless accumulation of 82 First Folios — the largest single collection in the world — a venture documented with examples of his negotiation and manipulation. Exhibition Review: Shakespeare Folios as Venerated Relics 2011-07-07T12:01:10Z When you cut your teeth as an actor playing Shakespearean kings such as Coriolanus, portraying a wise but cutthroat medieval lord on television isn’t much of a stretch. From ‘Coriolanus’ to ‘Game of Thrones,’ Charles Dance is acting royalty 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Jackson is the first British woman to play the part this century in a major production, and she does so at a moment when gender is a battlefront for Shakespeareans in Britain. Glenda Jackson Hopes to Scale Mount Lear in Her Stage Return 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z A commanding and experienced Shakespearean actor, she provides the production with a thrilling jolt of high style. Theater Review: ‘Richard III,’ with Ron Cephas Jones, at the Public Theater 2012-08-12T20:55:37Z For better or worse, 2016 has been a truly Shakespearean year. Notes on a truly Shakespearean year: An enlightened boldness brings out the best in the Bard 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z But this is an exciting production that shows why Branagh is such a fine Shakespearean actor. Macbeth – review 2013-07-06T00:16:17Z Some of it is in the original Shakespearean English, but there’s also no shortage of dirty puns or current event references, keeping the performance engaging whether or not you’ve experienced a play since high school. Things to do in New York: Shakespeare (Drunk or in the Park) 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The notion would be absurd if the garbling of the transliterated words weren't so ingeniously Shakespearean. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z It’s a tall order, and the pressure is not dissimilar, says Hawke, to that which accompanies the performance of a Shakespearean soliloquy. Watch Ethan Hawke and Tom Hiddleston Share in an Impromptu Duet 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z So she learned from a friend and fellow Shakespearean, Catherine E. Coulson, perhaps best known as the Log Lady in “Twin Peaks.” In ‘Twisted Metal’ Series, Killer Clowns Come With Class Commentary 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Full body paint, a beekeeping suit and a Shakespearean fencing ensemble were recently spotted. Bo?te: On Top 2011-06-08T18:08:22Z Larry King and former Texas governor Ann Richards keep popping up to offer crotchety comic relief, like side characters in a Shakespearean play. Review | What was George W. Bush really like? A novelist whips up a campy portrait. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s always fun to see a Royal Shakespeare ensemble step outside the Shakespearean box. Theater Review: At the National Theatre in London, Other People's Pain 2011-05-03T13:00:07Z In “Farinelli and the King,” also a Globe production, he occupies a poignant middle ground between those two Shakespearean archetypes, as a troubled soul who shifts between lyric melancholia and splenetic rage. Review: Mark Rylance Returns to Broadway as a Mad Monarch to Cherish 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Even though she has never done Shakespeare, Ms. Metcalf looked in this moment like she was in the third act of a Shakespearean tragedy. Laurie Metcalf, the First Lady of American Theater 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Does President Trump remind her of any Shakespearean character? Queen! Bow Down to Tattoo-Flashing Octogenarian Dame Dench 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Great Shakespearean acting requires a perfect synchronicity of speech and psychology. Toil and trouble, and missed connections, in 'Macbeth' at Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z In Shakespearean comedies, marriage puts a halt to the madcap energy and silvery flux of midsummer. People Are Still Getting Married, and This Book Is Here to Help 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z "Women," a series of Shakespearean scenes and discussion that is Ms. Packer's own creation, explores Shakespeare's female characters and Ms. Packer's work as an interpreter of them. Summer Stages: Theater 2010-05-09T03:12:00Z For much of the rest of theater history, more was considered more, and the Shakespearean model of amply filled stages held sway. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z These plays are Shakespearean in their scope and depth. 'Grief is like a tsunami' 2010-07-10T23:02:00Z Professor Rogoff called his game “Shakespearean,” explaining that Mr. Caruana is harnessing ideas that are available to any player and elevating them to a level surpassing poetry. Young Grandmasters Try to Make Chess Cool 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z For Sunny anyway, it seems he was just in love with her, and was willing to do anything for her, which is so old-fashioned, Shakespearean kind of thing. Michael Showalter on American con artists: "We really are screwed if there's no such thing as truth" 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The smaller entries are like Shakespearean sonnets — the larger ones, more like Joyce’s Ulysses. An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z And the award was to be presented after a matinee performance of “Antony and Cleopatra,” Cohen’s favorite Shakespearean work - he’d directed it three times himself. Montgomery native honored for work in Shakespeare 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Let’s just say that a major role has been recast, and not even the fact that Rory Kinnear – perhaps England’s finest young Shakespearean actor – is taking over the part can make up for this development. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Cue the Seance 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z All around the hall, other actors were declaiming Shakespearean verse and handing cards to wary, bewildered and delighted recipients. Critic’s Notebook: London 2012 Festival Shows British Talent and Eccentricity 2012-08-31T22:07:21Z In other words, any sane theatergoer hearing of this latest effort from Mr. Bartlett, whose earlier work includes the excellent but small-scale “Cockfight Play,” might have predicted a Shakespearean fall from grace. Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z “We believe in the Shakespearean world, in a nutshell,” Welch said. Video Operas You Can Watch on Your Phone 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z “It was positively Shakespearean in terms of how it went down,” said Popay. The Enduring Appeal of ‘Wagatha,’ Now on Stage and Screen 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The new record takes the Shakespearean allusions even further, given its dramatic Elizabethan title. “It’s OK to always be a loser”: Patrick Stickles reveals the secrets of Titus Andronicus 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Photograph: Marc Brenner At its best, Shakespearean theatre is a happy marriage between actors and audience. No sets, please, for Shakespeare – or anything else 2012-07-04T13:07:54Z If it all sounds more than vaguely Shakespearean, you’re right: His canon is the inspiration. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The paper also states that Shakespearean scholars were critical of the original study and urges them to reconsider the evidence. To inhale or not to inhale: Was Shakespeare a cannabis user? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The company released "Much Ado About Nothing," a retelling of the Shakespearean comedy, in 2012. 'Avengers' director Joss Whedon releases new film online 2014-04-21T22:14:30Z Like the Picasso allusion, the Shakespearean nod feels like a name-drop without a purpose. A Widow Takes Her Grown Kids on a Cruise. What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, fatigues are by now a cliché in Shakespearean war dramas. Review: Shakespeare Meets Black Power in ‘Caesar/X’ 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z We see a first edition of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language in which he used the 18th-century equivalent of Post-it notes to add Shakespearean citations. Critic?s Notebook: ?Making History? and ?Remembering Shakespeare? at Yale 2012-03-22T22:50:43Z With this, I wanted to write a play that mimicked elements of a Shakespearean comedy with a happy ending. | Playwright Thomas Bradshaw on Race, Porn and Suburbia 2014-01-29T23:00:38Z “It feels more like being in a Tarantino film than a Shakespearean tragedy,” she wrote in an e-mail between performances. John Ford?s ?Broken Heart? and ? ?Tis Pity She?s a Whore? 2012-01-27T18:00:00Z Ijames unpacks it all in a chili-and-cornbread combo of colloquial language and Shakespearean English, with characters that reflect an authentic Black experience. They Invited Shakespeare to the Cookout. They Got ‘Fat Ham.’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Mainly I had to get over the big block, the feeling of dread I get when there are two and a half hours of Shakespearean tragedy stretching out terrifyingly ahead. TV review: Julius Caesar 2012-06-24T21:30:01Z Although some die-hard theater fans might regard getting covered in Shakespearean blood as the equivalent of catching a home run ball at a Nationals game, most prefer not to get their clothes stained. For the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s props director, one blood is not like another 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z As it will on Friday night, this Chicago-based improv group creates an impromptu Shakespearean masterpiece from the ground up at every performance. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z In the Shakespearean play, it’s an unnatural, hideous act. Last Supper: The Real-Life Massacre that Inspired the Game of Thrones ‘Red Wedding’ 2013-06-04T15:24:37Z Holzhauer was leading in the second game of the match, where the “Final Jeopardy” question asked the competitors to identify the non-title character in a Shakespearean tragedy with the most speeches. For ‘Jeopardy’ fans, Ken Jennings is the greatest 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Although Taymor’s Shakespearean work largely has been limited to three plays — “Titus Andronicus,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Tempest” — she has explored all three through multiple stage productions and in film. Director Julie Taymor to receive prestigious ‘Will’ Award 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z If the baby can’t understand Shakespearean words, that’s no big deal; if a word or two does sneak into her brain, there’s nothing inappropriate to worry about. Read to Your Baby, Say Doctors — But Which Books? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z In the spring, Sher revealed his Falstaff to audiences at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and cemented his status as one of the most accomplished Shakespearean players alive today. A tale of two Lears: Glenda Jackson and Antony Sher scale Shakespeare's mightiest tragedy 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Is there a Shakespearean role that most appeals to you? Anne Hathaway: 'I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them' 2010-12-26T00:05:06Z Like most modern directors who deal with the Trojan War, whether in Greek tragedy or Shakespearean drama, Sullivan has updated the military accouterments of the setting. Trump, Troilus, and Cressida 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Many of the accretions to the facade of the theatre have been removed, meaning details such as the carved brick sculptures, each depicting a different Shakespearean scene, can be appreciated afresh. The Royal Shakespeare Company: an exciting new chapter 2010-11-24T16:44:00Z We hope that, like the seemingly mad Edgar in King Lear, Daryl is just shamming – and that he will, like the Shakespearean dissembler, cast off his mask and take out the evil trash. The Walking Dead: season seven, episode four – Service 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s Shakespearean, this betrayal, although most of the Bard’s double crosses are helpfully telegraphed by the betrayer, in monologues with the audience. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: A Chimp With a Machine Gun 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z For three seasons, the hierarchical possibilities continually shifted as the father and his heirs played out power dynamics worthy of Roman history, or Greek tragedy, or Shakespearean drama. ‘Succession’: Which Rat Could Win the Race? 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Bartlett is the author of the future Shakespearean history play “King Charles III”; Mr. Graham wrote the interactive “Privacy,” about reality-fracturing practices in the age of surveillance. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z A. I certainly never would’ve guessed that when I was a young theater director and my main ambitions were to run a major Shakespearean festival. The Cigarette Smoking Man of ‘The X-Files’ Resurfaces 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z After many years boldly going into space, Patrick Stewart's been getting back to his Shakespearean roots with award-winning turns in Macbeth, Hamlet and The Tempest. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z TIME: I’ve heard Steve Jobs, the film, described as Shakespearean, which is a bit of a coincidence given that you recently played Macbeth. Oscar Nominee Michael Fassbender on the Problem With Picking Winners in the Arts 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Daniels’s staging will make it clear that Tahir is playing a Muslim — as most Shakespearean scholars now agree Othello was — but not a bad guy, like Raza in “Iron Man.” From Hollywood bad guy to Shakespearean heavy 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Although he gained his highest profile in film and television work, Richardson - who died in 2007 - was also a leading Shakespearean stage actor. Tennant "thrilled" with gifted ring 2013-11-01T09:25:55Z Epic, vital, savage, relentless, insane, existentially incandescent, horrifying, excruciating, not funny, very funny, this is the great tragicomic howl of a madman at full Shakespearean tilt. Top 10 deranged characters 2011-04-06T11:21:05Z His father, James O’Neill, was a once-promising Shakespearean actor who purchased the rights to “The Count of Monte Cristo,” a play based on the Alexandre Dumas novel. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z "It said the Captain will be played by an unknown British Shakespearean actor," mused Stewart, 74. Patrick Stewart's new roles more down to Earth than sci-fi work 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z I started seeing Paul as a larger-than-life Shakespearean and Wilsonian tragic character. Delroy Lindo on ‘Da 5 Bloods’ and Playing a Trump Supporter 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z One of Judi Dench's great strengths, seen in countless Shakespearean heroines such as Viola and Beatrice, is her ability to combine ecstasy and melancholy, witnessed in abundance here. Peter and Alice – review 2013-03-25T23:00:01Z Undeterred, Executive Artistic Director Jessica Hansen is optimistic that the local company known for producing radio broadcasts of Shakespearean classics such as “The Tempest” will find other ports in a storm. Props warrior Sierra Banack is ready to help a new guild with ‘Warcraft’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z |
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