Word: bards
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What's the latest equivalent of the comic who wants to play Hamlet? A comic film maker who takes it in mind to rewrite Shakespeare. In the past month, the two most distinguished confectors of '70s movie comedy have genuflected before the Bard in order to elevate the adolescent tone of current screen fare. First, Woody Allen frolicked midst woodland nymphs in A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy. Now Paul Mazursky (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Harry and Tonto) has gone to "an uninhabited island" for his gloss on Shakespeare's last great play...
Marjorie Garber, professor of English evidently figures that Harvard students read enough Shakespeare in her two courses, and she stays clear of the bard's plays in her recommendations. She does suggest, however, reading the sonnets, as well...
DIED. Frank Baxter, 85, retired professor of English at the University of Southern California, whose Shakespeare on TV, a series of lively lectures on the Bard, drew huge audiences in the 1950s and 1960s and won him several awards, including seven Emmys; of a heart attack; in San Marino, Calif...
...road with Churchill, the Bard and Plimpton...
Steiner last night confirmed that he had sent Landsmark a letter, but refused further comment. Isaac, who is now dividing his time between Princeton University and Bard College, could not be reached for comment...