Word: 15th
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Against the dark moody geography of 15th century England, Kenneth Branagh weaves a tale of political intrigue in his darkly brilliant film "Henry V." Taking on Laurence Oliver's classic 1944 version of the tale, Branagh brings us both the fierce conceit and urgent soul-searching of Henry's character just as gallantly as his predecessor. However, he adds a few of his own complicated twists by not only making the film fast-paced enough for modern Hollywood audiences, but also by fleshing out the full pantheon of psychological contours that make Henry such a complex hero. From the grime...
Branagh skilfully offers us an interior look at the rocky and craggy lanscape of Henry's own mind and soul amidst the grey and ghostly lands of the 15th century...
...play has been transplanted from the teeming, multicultural world of 15th century Venice, Italy, to the teeming, multicultural world of 1994 Venice Beach, California, where Sellars lives when he isn't setting Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, putting King Lear in a Lincoln Continental or deconstructing other classic plays and operas. Shylock, along with the play's other Jews, is black. Antonio, the merchant of the title, and his kinsmen are Latinos. Portia, the wealthy maiden being wooed by Antonio's friend Bassanio, is Asian. But the racial shuffling is just one of Sellars' liberties. The stage is furnished with...
...University of New Brunswick, a Canadian team which has been the preseason opponent for many Eastern hockey teams this fall, certainly will be no pushover. On October 15th, the Reds played the current #1 team in the nation, Boston University, down to the wire and lost only...
Knowles circulated a memo in the search for a new dean to the Faculty Council last week. In the memo he stated that he would most likely decide on the future structure of the College by November 15th...