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...only Shakespeare play on campus this semester. A renowned physician’s daughter is determined to rid the French king of a strange illness, hoping that the favor will be returned with her choice of a husband. How will her chosen one react to being made a prize? Shakespeare??s gender-flipped tale is an under-performed gem. A collaboration of the Quincy House Drama Society and the HRDC. Through Dec. 13. 8:30 p.m. Tickets $8; $5 students. Quincy House, 58 Plympton St., Cambridge...
...Shakespeare??s Macbeth, alcohol “provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”—to be lecherous, in this context—just as the College’s rhetoric about health “provokes the desire” to seek treatment while its disciplinary rhetoric drives alcohol underground and “takes away the performance” of getting help. The committee must persuade students that it understands their partying, respects their desire to drink and above all, will not be disheartened—or draconian?...
...Peter Hall of the Theatre Royal Bath directs Shakespeare??s comedy of lovers in the forest. 8 p.m. Mon-Sat, 7:30 Sun, 2:00 Wednesday and Sunday through Dec. 21. Tickets $25-$67. Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St., Boston...
Currently, however, Harvard does not require anyone to ponder Shakespeare??s truths, much less to read a word of his plays. Casting the rejection of standards as an enlightened educational revolution, the Core bureaucrats giddily proclaim: “The Core...does not define intellectual breadth as the mastery of a set of Great Books, or the digestion of a specific quantum of information, or the surveying of current knowledge in certain fields.” But there are some Great Books that citizens of Western society, in order to be educated men and women, really should read...
After a brief affair with paint-stained Diesel tees and custom-ripped jeans from cult Japanese label Paper Denim Cloth, he joined the Signet, took up sherry and became a quintessential metrosexual garbed in the finest vintage tweed. Best known in the arts community for a daring adaptation of Shakespeare??s Love’s Labour’s Lost set in Meiji restoration Japan and staged in the Quincy Grille—which he successfully petitioned to count for his joint VES-Literature degree—he aspires to a Polanski-cum-Kurosawa career trajectory. His weblog...