Word: bard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...REAL THING Tom Stoppard His witty wordplay would make even the Bard proud...
Though he confesses he was initially reluctant to return to Shakespeare, Stoppard says he has been bowled over by the power of the Bard--and the theater--ever since his "first, deep" experience seeing Hamlet: "It alerted you. It jumped you into the central truth about theater, which is that it's an event and not a text." This, he is convinced, is why theater will endure and why he continues to produce a play every few years (of his next he will say only "19th century" and "Russia...
...SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE Forbidden romance, raffish show-biz comedy, literary pranksterism and class warfare jostle joyously in this intricately imagined, exuberantly acted, cunningly directed tale of how the young, infinitely distracted Bard gets in touch with the genius he doesn't know he possesses. To Gwyneth Paltrow, muse of Miramax, we send our heart...
...Conservative Republicans were evidently apprehensive, with good cause, about their basic instincts. This fear led to a heightened self-righteousness and inflamed passion to punish the President for his misdemeanor. But the Republicans carried on the flogging too long, and the people got weary. The Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote in his immortal words addressed to the man flogging the whore, "Strip thine own back;/ Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind,/ For which thou whipp'st her" (King Lear). NARAYAN SWAMY Chennai, India...
With her baseline, and the other's baseness, this was a parody to lift any student's heart, delightful both in its irreverence to the canon and to the disregard it shows for the seriousness with which that canon is treated around these parts. In their overhaul of the Bard, the RSC may have come closer to the original Shakespearean experience than we usually get. On the outside chance that The Bard is turning in his grave, though, no one seems to feel too badly since he never seemed the type to lie flat and complacent in the first place...