Word: gonzago
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...Here all those idiosyncracies of Elizabethan English that we profess to understand in section are given a thorough airing. What does the guard mean with his "Stand and unfold yourself?" When did thumb-biting stop being synonymous with giving someone the birdie? Just as Hamlet uses the Death of Gonzago as a way to find his accusatory voice, this play allows Harvard students to flesh out those suspicions they'd always been too pretentious to discuss in the open. Who hasn't thought that the comedies would have been better off as a feature presentation rather than 15 episodes with...
...Player King is a superb stroke, since characters hint at magical other realities. One never really knows whether the Ghost really exists, or is rather imagined by some of the characters. "Reality" is likewise broken down in the device of staging a play within the play: The Murder of Gonzago, which is also the story of a king murdered by his wife and her lover. Since Word plays both the murdered king in The Murder of Gonzago and the dead king's ghost in the play itself, one wonders if the murder is actually happening again. Because given the dramatic...
...football eleven of Haverhill, Mass., champion team from New England, appeared at the White House and was shaken by the hands. Then it was photographed with the President-a privilege which has been denied to most White House visiting elevens. Next day it was beaten 13 to 7 by Gonzago High School, champions of the Capital...
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