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When Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. announced that he would be leaving Duke University to head Harvard's Afro-Am Department, students there joked that he was "skipping town." At the time, Stanley E. Fish, the chair of Duke's English Department--in which Gates held a joint appointment--took the matter in stride. But it looks like "skipping town syndrome" might be contagious after...
...plot is predictable: Valentine travels to work for the Duke in Milan, leaving his friend Proteus, who is in love with Julia (Dawn Li), in Verona. In Milan, Valentine falls in love with the Duke's daughter Silvia (Joanna Weiss), who is engaged to the pompous Sir Thurio (Robert Ashley). Proteus is sent to Milan by his father, and he too becomes enamored of Silvia and manages to thwart Valentine's plan to marry...
Modern costumes and anachronistic gestures, such as the exchange of an elaborate high-five between the Duke and Sir Thurio, heighten the dialogue's clumsiness. Although these modern touches are cute, most of the staging and delivery of the lines is traditional. Wu's decision to combine classical and modern elements rather than focus on one type of interpretation makes the dialogue appear archaic...
...applaud Ms. Kerrigan for celebrating the South while being surrounded in Yankee culture. But which South is she celebrating? Is it hers, or mine--or ours? Is it the South of Jefferson Davis, Nathan Bedford Forest, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee? Or is it the South of David Duke, Bull Connor and Jesse Helms...
Breaking into a smile, Gates said, "We black scholars are enjoying our new marketability. Don't tell me about Cornell's loss and Duke's gain. I'm not going from Master Cornell to Master Duke, you know. I am free to make my own choices...