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Shakespeare will survive this distortion. So will Branagh; he is, above all, an energetic entrepreneur. But we must look elsewhere for an actor of classical grace and modern power who will be not the next Olivier but the next Ken Branagh.
"I think what marks him as a man as opposed to a scholar is that he grew up... surrounded, on the immediate stage, by Bengali poets, Sanskrit scholars and classical Indian dancers and, on the wider stage, by poverty and famine," wrote Martha Chen, a lecturer in public policy at...
To receive the "Booke of Arts" that symbolized the degree, graduates had to undergo tests in classical tongues at the ceremony, proving themselves and dazzling the distinguished audience (or so administrators hoped).
Still, the Commencement program has strayed from its classical origins over the years.
To the Method kids in jeans, Sir John's classical diction might seem as fuddy a theater relic as tights and gaslights. Yet on the night after his death, on a West End stage, Edie Falco and her American co-stars in the gritty play Side Man paused at the...