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...STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator remembers a college classmate and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world- class author in splendid form...
Coach Mark Morris is perhaps the most quotable bard in the ECAC. The league should consider awarding the Golden Knights a few extra victories just for having Morris behind the bench...
...bard is not back at center stage in Literature and Arts A. Despite a promise in last year's course catalog, the Core is not offering a course in Shakespeare this year. This spring, though, Professor of American Literature and Language and Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors will teach a new Literature and Arts A course on "Ethnicity in Modern American Literature and Culture...
HENRY IV, PART II. The darkest and most brooding of the Bard's histories is richly illuminated by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at Ashland...
...spend their free time listening to theater performances which included magic tricks, physical comedy and Shakespearean soliloquys. Bands larger than current ensembles but smaller than full-fledged orchestras would perform both classical music and popular ditties. In the case of Shakespeare, Levine cleverly demonstrates how well people knew the Bard's works by providing examples of the careful, complex parodies of Shakespeare's plays that were performed in the mid-19th century. The jokes evidence a public familiarity with Shakespeare that would send a frisson of joy through E.D. Hirsh and his many culturally literate disciples...