Word: coriolanus
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...specific issue of modernity. For “The Tempest,” it is “the Conundrum of Man;” for “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Untimeliness of Youth;” for “Coriolanus,” “The Estrangement of Self;” and so forth. With each focus, Garber effectively channels her interpretations of the modern contexts for these plays so that by the end of each chapter, we not only have a comprehensive understanding of the play?...
...letter, Mbeki describes his admiration for the central character in his favorite Shakespeare play, Coriolanus, who set out, as he wrote, with "truthfulness, courage, self-sacrifice, absence of self-seeking, brotherliness, heroism, optimism." Mbeki aspired to the same qualities, to be a "person who does good, and does it honestly," he tells Gevisser. But Coriolanus is a tragedy. The hero becomes a vainglorious despot. Mbeki is no Coriolanus, but as his paranoia and isolation reached new heights last year, Zwelinzima Vavi, the general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, warned the country may be "drifting toward dictatorship...
...Bach Society Orchestra’s (BachSoc) concert on Friday, April 28 was of a similar vein, sandwiching J.S. Bach’s Cantata “Nimm was dein ist” between Beethoven’s Overture to Coriolanus, which describes a Roman exile leading an attack on the democracy of Rome, and his Sixth Symphony, which features idyllic pastures...
Well, because acting is the pouring of a fictional spirit into an actual body. A star actor like Fiennes gradually becomes the sum of his roles--Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, the Count in The English Patient, Hamlet and Coriolanus onstage--conflated with his public persona. As for the public part, Fiennes doesn't give his fans much news to play with. He is divorced from actress Alex Kingston (ER) and has lived for a decade with actress Francesca Annis, 18 years his senior. He refuses to connect any dots between his roles and himself. And he rarely uses...
...Shakespeare gig he did for Manhattan's Classic Stage Company. Eric Edwards starred in a Close-Up toothpaste commercial; it was pulled when he was spotted in a porn loop. In his 1975 memoir Here Comes Harry Reems (quoted in The Other Hollywood), the actor recalls, "I was doing Coriolanus in some marginal coffeehouse where they passed the hat around at the end of the performance." He got more valuable training when he signed on with two burlesque vets to be the set-up guy, or "third banana," on a tour that included Staten Island and Atlantic City...