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Shakespeare's play The Two Gentlemen of Verona proves that even the illustrious Bard wrote trite plays. Nevertheless, the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian Theater Workshop manages to redeem this textual mess, and director Artie Wu creates an enjoyable production...
...Shakespeare's first comedies, The Two Gentlemen of Verona lacks both complexity and freshness. The play contains the early prototypes of what will become Shakespeare's stock characters: the blunt fool Launce (Christopher Scully), who uses crass language to express his words of wisdom; the love-sick Valentine (Andrew Sean Kuan); and the ruthless backstabbing Proteus (Alice Kim). In addition, the play is full of enough concealed identities, overheard conversations and overworked puns to make a sitcom writer groan...
...Well, gentlemen, which is it? The Democrats first complain that it is hypocritical to oppose injustice x but tolerate injustice y. Then they complain that the U.S. has turned into the world's policeman. How can it be otherwise? If stopping one injustice morally commits us to stopping all injustice, what does that make the U.S. if not the world's policeman...
According to City Arborist Jack R. Kelley, "Those nice little gentlemen at the Lampoon took it upon themselves to put an axe to that tree." Yet despite incontrovertible evidence, Dean of the College Archie C. Epps III said, "some persons--we do not know if they were members of the Lampoon--attacked the tree...in effect killing the tree...
...Those nice little gentlemen at the Lampoon took it upon themselves to put an axe to that tree...