Word: bards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plaque on a wall beside the debris-strewn riverbank and felt, "well, outrage." Over the years he and his Shakespeare Globe Trust faced the slings and arrows of competition from other restoration drives and a local borough council more interested in low-income housing (its deputy leader called the Bard "a lot of tosh"). After the council pulled out of a 1981 deal with a development company that would have guaranteed the site ("political vandalism," in Wanamaker's view), the Trust sued. Late last month the sea of troubles finally ended in an out-of-court settlement...
Well, it seems the legendary storm has struck again, this time stranding a superior cast of actors in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club's passable interpretation of the Bard's last play. The production has many worthwhile facets, including fine acting and an appealing original score. But the resultant show is something less than the sum of its well-played parts...
...story of his spectacular rise and fall, recounted in several biographies, numerous memoirs and even a Broadway play that starred Alec Guinness, retains an eerie, timeless allure. Dylan's saga combines Orphic myth with cautionary tale. Depending on who does the reading, the hero was either an inspired, fragile bard who fell upon the thorns of life or an overpraised, cadging drunk who finally got what he had been asking for and deserved. Thomas' Collected Letters will fuel such disagreements but hardly settle them. The roughly 1,000 pieces of correspondence assembled here, some 700 published for the first time...
Cleverly paraphrasing the Immortal Bard's writings, Big Red actors carried signs that read, "Friends, Romans, lend me your earmuffs...
...course, King Lear. But wait. The great lord is called Hidetora, and he speaks in a tongue Will Shakespeare would not have recognized, inhabits a landscape unknown to the Bard, that of 16th century Japan. And Goneril, Regan and Cordelia are here men called Taro, Jiro and Saburo. We are obviously far from the place of this tragic tale's mythic birth and noble retelling, and we are far from the inert reverence of the typical movie adaptation of a classic. Indeed, in Ran (which means "chaos" in Japanese) we venture into a territory where the very word adaptation distorts...