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...called “Amazon”—a woman combative in many realms, whether displaying courage for her country in time of war or raging against the men who commit crimes against her—is authoritative and powerful. Her dialogue on “Shakespeare??s daughters”—women who took to writing or speaking—tackles the sensitive issue of rape while also discussing social attitudes towards female sexual behavior; the juxtaposition of the two creates what Ulrich calls a woman’s attempt...
Shakespearean theater requires the contemporary performer to make an initial choice between tradition and creative reinterpretation. Directed by Joshua Randall and co-produced by Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05 and Benjamin M. Poppel ’09, Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre (HRST) took Shakespeare??s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to the stage this past Friday in the Loeb Experimental Theatre, but never quite made that choice. Regardless of its ambivalent direction, HRST provided audiences with a successful comedy performed by an enthusiastic, talented cast. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Though an enjoyable, lighthearted performance ensued, it consistently wavered between conventionality and creativity. The only disappointing moments in the otherwise satisfying performance were, in fact, the incongruent attempts at creative reinterpretation of Shakespeare??s work...
...these logistical questions will never satisfy our insatiable desire to know why. Why would someone do something so terrible? Like Shakespeare??s Iago, the literary embodiment of evil, the Virginia Tech murderer has frustrated our demand for a motive by taking his own life: “Demand me nothing; what you know, you know; from this time forth I will never speak a word.” What we know from yesterday’s massacre is nothing, except the brute, inscrutable fact that evil exists in the world...
...lines. The result was that the play was more narrowly focused on Brutus and Cassius than it is in some versions, an interesting shift. But the plot would have been more compelling with a little less redundancy of scenes in the first half (in large part Shakespeare??s fault, to be fair) and a little more exposition in the second...