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...kills Tybalt. Both death scenes are heart-wrenching, reminding us that there are no clear victories and no concrete enemies in the world of Shakespeare. Equally as heart-wrenching is the scene in which Juliet consumes the Friar’s potion. Here, Cranko takes full liberty from the Bard and brings in eight ballerinas bearing white flowers. As they dance around Juliet’s bed, Prokofiev’s score adopts the innocent chimes of carousel music, serving as effective contrast with the subsequent discovery of Juliet’s body and Lady Capulet’s grief...
Several dozen students gathered to watch actors from the Hyperion Shakespeare Company, a student group devoted to the Bard, perform favorites like the balcony scene from “Romeo and Juliet,”—along with less obviously romantic choices like a farewell scene from “Richard II”—against a cozy backdrop of books in the Eliot House Library...
...however, end with the tote bag. The more enthralled I became with John, the more his enthusiasm for the Bard rubbed off on me. Somewhere over the course of my stalking-filled semester, I fell in love with the books inside the bag—Othello and Hamlet earned prominent places on the shelf I had previously reserved for the Harry Potter canon, and eventually scored a shelf of their own. When John tragically left Cambridge to move across the country, I sought another Shakespeare course in honor of his memory. I was rewarded not long after by Shakespearean Tragedy...
...celebrating Scotland's Bard is not just the preserve of organized societies, expats, or golf clubs. Elsewhere in London, pubs are throwing haggis buffets, Ceilidh dances are sold out, and traditional formal suppers are spreading over the calendar. As singer and TV presenter Fiona Kennedy points out in her after-haggis speech at the Caledonian Club, back in her hometown of Aberdeen, Burns Night now stretches over so many days that it's referred to as Ramadram...
Almost Shakespearean, no? True, the Bard didn't offer much in the way of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) or special-interest vehicles--two key sources of Citi's pain. He did, however, understand diversification. "My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place," said Antonio, the Merchant of Venice. "Therefore, my merchandise makes...