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When was the last time we had a straight adaptation of a play by William Shakespeare? After DiCaprio's mumbled Romeo and Branagh's adulterated Hamlet, director Michael Hoffman has fashioned a surprisingly faithful version of Shakespeare's fairweather fantasy A Midsummer Night's Dream...
Revenge dramas are as old as Medea (she tore her sons to pieces), as hallowed as Hamlet (seven murders), as familiar as The Godfather. High drama is about the conflict between shades of good and evil, often within the same person. But it's easier to dream up a scenario of slavering evil and imperishable good. This is the moral and commercial equation of melodrama: the greater the outrage suffered, the greater the justification for revenge. You grind me down at first; I grind you up at last. This time it's personal...
...founding member of the Hyperion Shakespeare Company, Speedie has produced "Much Ado About Nothing," "Measure for Measure," "Macbeth," "The Tempest," "Hamlet" and he is currently directing the film "Twelve Nights...
...EMBRACED, LIKE, SHAKESPEARE: "I lucked out in terms of timing," Stiles says, poised to appear in three youth movies borrowed from the Bard. 10 Things is basically Taming of the Shrew in high school; an updated Hamlet will star Ethan Hawke as the melancholy Dane; and O, currently filming, is a retelling of Othello set in the world of high school basketball...
...suggest overhauling Shakespeare's work to rid it of statements like Hamlet's "Frailty, thy name is woman" or his responding to Ophelia's "Tis brief, my lord" with "As woman's love." After all, to err is human. GEORG SCHWARZMANN Augsburg, Germany...