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THEATER | William Shakespeare??€™s Cymbeline...
Join the lovers Imogen and Posthumous in this enchanting production of one of Shakespeare??€™s lesser-known plays. Fairy tale realism and great performances brought to you by the Winthrop House Drama Society. Tickets $3 General, $2 Harvard Students (2 per I.D.), $1 Winthrop Residents. 4 p.m. Winthrop Courtyard...
Stoppard’s heroes are the doomed, thick-headed duo of the play’s title. Though they are only minor characters in Shakespeare??€™s Hamlet, Stoppard allows Rosencrantz (Bobby A. Hodgson ’05) and Guildenstern (Geordie F. Broadwater ’04) to show the events in and around the play from their own shared perspective. They’re hard to tell apart; you could say that Guildenstern is the smart one, but that wouldn’t be saying much. They’re both incredibly dense, easily confused, and utterly...
...prop status; none of them talk with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for long enough to make an impression. Yet all of the actors give the sense that there are unspoken depths to their characters—a crucial skill, considering that their characters have far more space to themselves in Shakespeare??€™s Hamlet. Polonius (Tim M. Marrinan ’06) is suitably obsequious, Ophelia (Andrea M. Spillmann ’07) is weepy when weepiness is called for, and a moody Hamlet (Jeremy R. Funke ’04-’05) stands around muttering soliloquies...
Vendler, who has written widely about poetry and memorized all of Shakespeare??€™s 154 sonnets, said that she will use the prominent forum in May to argue that the study of humanities should be centered on the arts, instead of the traditional focus on history and philosophy...