Word: bard
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...head to rally her troops, drawn up on the shore, impotently waiting for the naval engagement to begin. She is given a noble rallying speech to sing out - her St. Crispin's Day moment - but, putting this as gently as possible, Nicholson and Hirst are not exactly the Bard of Avon, and Kapur is not exactly Laurence Olivier when it comes to staging this emptily rhetorical, entirely fictional moment. The director not much better with the ensuing naval battle, which is more symbolically than realistically staged...
...Bard Press; 231 pages...
...English professor at Washington State University; and Robin Fox, professor of social theory at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Some more famous names, like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Orson Welles, also lent their posthumous support in a list of people who expressed their own doubts about the Bard when they were alive. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Histories...
...time again to be constant in love through months and years of separation," Greer writes. Anne "may have been the model." By giving Shakespeare's wife a voice and rescuing her from caricature, Greer achieves that for which all Shakespearean scholars strive: she brings us closer to the Bard himself...
...away, the True Believers think they can summon spirits from the vasty deep, as Shakespeare put it, but that does not mean they will come - especially if the water and electricity (and the police force) fail to function. Or, to borrow a little less grandly from the Bard, "For want of a nail...