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Dates: during 1990-1999
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performed by Claire Bloom...
...Claire Bloom returned to the Hasty Pudding Theatre last weekend, performing her new series of Shakespeare monologues, "Sisters, Wives and Daughters: New Portraits of Shakespeare's Women. The acclaimed English actress presented living portraits of three famous characters: Lady Macbeth, Isabella (Measure for Measure) and Rosalind (As You Like...
From her Stratford-upon-Avon debut as Ophelia to her award-winning Blanche DuBois to her performance opposite Laurence Olivier in Brideshead Revisited, Bloom has exhibited incredible range on stage and screen. In her return to Shakespeare, Bloom treats familiar material with nostalgia and affection...
Isabella is perhaps one of the least liked characters in Shakespeare. A cold self-disciplined maiden schooled in a nunnery, she sees the world in absolute terms: virgin honor is worth preserving even at the cost of her brother's life. Yet Bloom breathes life and warmth into Isabella . We see her fear when pleading with the governor for mercy for her brother, her fury when the governor proposes sex in exchange for her brother's freedom, her anguish when she perceives her brother to have compromised his honor: "yet hath he in him such a mind of honor/ That...
...Bloom captures convincingly the evolution of Isabella's moral universe; the oncerigid Isabella has accepted human imperfection by the final act. The ending--the Duke marries Isabella--feels perfunctory in both the play and in Bloom's piece but detracts only slightly from the rest of the portrait...