Word: hamlet
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Harris is in the spotlight largely because Florida's demographic chaos has turned its politics into a hypercentrist snarl of compassionate Republicans and conservative Democrats, of a G.O.P. Governor who broods like Hamlet over every issue and a Democratic attorney general, Bob Butterworth, Gore's Florida campaign chairman, who once made a joke about the problem of convicts' catching fire in Florida's electric chair. That mix ought to make Florida a more cooperative place during radioactive disputes like the recount. But in reality, says University of Florida political analyst Richard Scher, it has made the state a dysfunctional place...
...imagine reality without Don Quixote and Hamlet?" he said...
Sure, you've heard of Hamlet and King Lear. But Timon of Athens? This weekend, one of Shakespeare's least known tragedies makes its Boston premier on the Agassiz Stage as director/producer Matt Hudson '03 brings to life a play that was probably never staged in the Bard's own lifetime. But even if you're not a Shakespeare scholar, there's reason to head for the Agassiz. A moving story of friendship and betrayal, Timon resonates with as much power as any of Shakespeare's better-known works...
Essentially, madness is a state which one must enter alone, a place into which nobody, not even the audience in a theater, can follow you. They can follow you to the very brink of madnessand follow you with great interest if your name is Hamlet or King Lear. But they cannot cross that threshold with you; they can only watch the play develop around you once you have become little more than a set piece, a constant force of irrationality. There is a reason that the conflicts of government play a larger role in the second part of Bennett...
...figured out what he liked and disliked in characters-so, for instance, he gave his heroine the best attributes of many previous heroines." She also notes that the play's original plot and fairy-tale feel may make Cymbeline a pleasant surprise for audiences raised on somber standards like Hamlet. Director Eric Fleisig-Greene '01 plans a small-scale, technically simple production that focuses on character and language; the black-box setup of the Loeb Ex and the production's relatively long rehearsal time promise to help his cast along toward this goal of finely crafted storytelling...