Word: hamlet
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...William Shakespeare is the finest author in the English language," notes the Dunster House senior who composed the music for Hasty Pudding Theatricals 147, A Tsar is Born. "The original performances of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and countless other classic Shakespearen texts featured exclusively male casts. This dynamic was integral to the theatrical tradition in the time of the great William Shakespeare, and it remains so today. What is my point? Simply that HPT 147 was written by William Shakespeare...
...fact, the ultimate strength of Greene's books that he shows us the hazards of compassion. We all know, from works like Hamlet, how analysis is paralysis and the ability to see every side of every issue prevents us from taking any side at all. The tragic import of Greene's work is that understanding can do the same: he could so easily see the pain of the people he was supposed to punish that he could not bear to come down hard on them. He became hostage to his own sympathies and railed at pity with the fury...
Hollywood actors in need of a credibility infusion often turn to the instant image boost offered by performing in anything scripted by William Shakespeare. After starring in a number of films like Bird on a Wire, Mel Gibson, for example, used a turn as Hamlet to achieve some gravitas. The latest bardolatrous movie hunk is KEANU REEVES, who, passing up a $6 million offer to star in Without Remorse, traveled to a stage in Winnipeg, Canada, to transform himself from surfer dude to the glum, quibbling Prince of Denmark. And how has he done? A London Sunday Times critic wrote...
...early summer in a nameless Connecticut hamlet, and the Irises are wilting. Like the members of so many families who inhabit the world of contemporary fiction, those in the Iris clan are profoundly disconnected from one another. When we meet them in Angel Angel (Viking; 211 pages; $19.95), April Stevens' intelligent and moving first novel, they seem withered by their inability to achieve the closeness they yearn...
...Viking; 211 pages; $19.95) This first novel by April Stevens is about the Iris family in a nameless Connecticut hamlet. Augusta Iris is a sad woman, who, abandoned by her husband, can't bear the thought of him living without her. The story is told from alternating points of view, between Augusta and her two sons who unsuccessfully try to shake their mother's sadness. Ultimately, they manage to get on with their lives, thanks to an outsider. TIME book reviewer Ginia Bellafante calls the book an "intelligent and moving first novel" with successful portrayals of characters who "seem withered...