Word: bard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Abridged though it is, significant chunks of the play are lifted directly from the Bard himself, and it is in these lines of straight Shakespeare that the cast's comic engineering is most visible. Shakespeare is reinvented Amelia Bedelia-style with a suggestiveness that invites one to reconsider the comic potential inherent in even the most serious Shakespearean dialogues. Here all those idiosyncracies of Elizabethan English that we profess to understand in section are given a thorough airing. What does the guard mean with his "Stand and unfold yourself?" When did thumb-biting stop being synonymous with giving someone...
...show suggests that it is not Shakespeare, but the standard notions of how Shakespeare should be produced that are inaccessible. Men dressed as men, women as women, and the whole lot of them speaking lines too naturalistically for the humor to be understood--this is the vision of the Bard challenged by The Compleat Wrks...
Best place to scope out the Bard's work...
...debate produced several viable options for progress toward stability. Bard Professor of History, emeritus, Richard Pipes proposed "teaching instead of preaching." Pipes contended that foreign aid and advice to Russia simply postpones a permanent solution and forces them to conform to Western ideals...
Tampering with Shakespeare is a venerable tradition, even by the world's most respected guardian of the canon. For the RSC's new version of Cymbeline, the Bard's little-performed romance, artistic director Adrian Noble has lopped off nearly a third of the play and seasoned it with Japanese costumes and mannerisms. If the production doesn't quite soar, it's probably because the plot remains one of Shakespeare's messiest, with everything from a headless corpse to a guest appearance by the god Jupiter. Matthew Warchus' sleek, modern-dress version of Hamlet toys with the play as well...