Word: bard
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...ache in the places where I used to play/ And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on./ I'm just paying my rent every day in the Tower of Song." Next to Cohen's castle of music, place this fetching little monument to the bard of rapturous bereavement. Release date: June...
...production team of “The Playboy of the Western World” wants you to consider playwright John Millington Synge to be the Irish Shakespeare. Sure, he may have lived and written some 300 years after the Bard himself, but never mind that. According to director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, Synge’s “Playboy” overcomes its heavy use of dialect and antiquated setting—early 20th-century Ireland—to achieve a certain universality and applicability, even for modern audiences...
...script moves with a relentless violence and retains Shakespeare’s eloquence, but removes the bulk that most modern theatergoers simply can’t stomach,” he says.Pecci summed up the show’s feel succinctly: “Think the Bard of Avon meets Quentin Tarantino.” RUBBISH AND REVERENCEThis recipe is likely to generate controversy as well as excitement. Any staging of Shakespeare that counts household rubbish as inspiration—“the major thematic gesture is garbage,” Lazarcheck says of this production?...
...bard goesballistic in Baz Luhrmann's churning, MTV-ish take on the classic love-and-death story. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, respectively 21 and 16 when they filmed it in 1996, bring youth's melancholy fever to the fable. Luhrmann might be chided for pandering to the youth market, but forget that. His fireworks and camerabatics are an apt and bracing visual equivalent to Shakespeare's swooning iambic pentameter...
...that was all. When "she" took it off, there was Lady Macbeth with short blond hair and a penis. The stage was covered in gore and what I think was supposed to be human excrement. The standing ovations at the end went on forever. I wonder what the Bard would have thought about all that. William Woodley Munich I read your reference to Shakespeare as "Will" with a shudder of distaste. Should we British be grateful you did not call him Bill? Moreover, I must disagree with Gary Taylor's Viewpoint in which he argued against Shakespeare's reputation...