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...problem: She’s into Shakespeare??like, more than friends. He’s into dicking around with his blockmates—who hate her, or rather the disruptive nature of squeeky bedsprings at all hours of the day (except during lecture) and girls who don’t clean up their toys. She wants to play Othello and Desdemona. He wants to play stockbroker and naughty school girl—the kind that skips section and doesn’t do the reading...
...produced by Liesje Hodgson ’08, “Titus Andronicus” plays at the Loeb Experimental Theatre through December 15. Although the production lacks finesse, the cast and crew do creative justice to the play’s reputation as what is reputed to be Shakespeare??s earliest tragedy—and what is undoubtedly his bloodiest work...
...Robert Harvard ventured out of bustling London to find a wife in the sleepy market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. In a house a short stroll from the home of William Shakespeare??s family, Harvard successfully courted Katherine Rodgers. The couple went on to sire our university’s namesake—John Harvard. And while the university was founded by a man whose parents very possibly knew Shakespeare personally, this fact did not foreshadow a corresponding care for drama in the new Cambridge. Puritanical conservatism, academic mores, and general structural lapses have hampered dramatic life...
...continue to do so. Today’s French, Italian and Spanish effectively “killed off” Latin. In mainland China, a simplified script and the phonetic system pinyin have replaced the traditional script. Modern English includes “you,” but rarely Shakespeare??s “thee” or “thou...
...Prospero’s island in some terrific ways. Still, a mood is not an intellectual stance. “The Tempest,” as a text, is so experimental and so daring that I cannot understand why this production seemed to be unwilling to wrestle with Shakespeare??s many suggestive questions...