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...emphasize cross-cultural interaction. “Arrivals” focuses on cultures coming to England through the seventeenth century, while “Diffusions” covers the spread of the English language during the British Empire. The “Shakespeares” category will consider the playwright??s works in multiple contexts...
...certainly in line with the rest of her oeuvre. Garber says that her objective in focusing her attention on 10 specific plays through critical essays that expound on certain universal themes was to explore the interdependent relationship between Shakespeare and popular culture, especially by tracing the playwright??s influence on society as it develops through the ages. “[This book] covers the two eras that have been most important to my work and my thought—modernity and the English Renaissance,” Garber says. “It emphasizes the ways in which...
...unobstructed stream of consciousness, is the driving force behind this production. Wellman adopts traditional dramatic elements such as the monologue but does so in a counterintuitive manner. For example, Raymond’s final speech during his “going-away” party attests to the playwright??s fascination with the paradox of language: the ability to say so much without saying anything at all. And as such, Wellman’s script could potentially have been a recipe for failure, as even a minor slip of the tongue could have detracted from the playwright?...
...that has a lot to do with audience,” Paulus says. “I think that, speaking on the panel as a director, I’ll be contributing ideas from that point of view, and Mac will be coming at it from a playwright??s point of view.” Not only is this weekend a celebration of past and present accomplishments, it’s also a look forward to what HRDC will become in the future. “I’m always afraid that the only people coming...
...Lectures on Human Values last night with a rapid-fire monologue by a character named Tony Kushner—a neurotic writer completely unprepared to give a speech “at—you should pardon the expression—Harvard.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright??s apologies drew laughter at every line from a Lowell Lecture Hall audience of more than 250, including University President Drew G. Faust. It was a slyly appropriate opening to a speech entitled “Fiction that’s True: Historical Fiction and Anxiety...