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Word: scurviest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jolt of literary blasphemy, like hearing a Tupac Shakur lyric sung in Westminster Abbey. Melodrama in Shakespeare? How awful, how scabrous, how very...appropriate, since Will was a man of the theater who gloried in the trappings of stage sensation. And because Richard III and Iago are the two scurviest, most seductive villains in the canon, it is right for directors to find a movie equivalent, in images and action, for Shakespeare's pulsing poetry and Elizabethan bloodlust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: PULP ELIZABETHAN FICTION | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

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