Word: shakespearean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shakespearean drama, both tragic and comic, the storms and calamities that shake the sublunary globe are reflections of turmoil in the hearts of men. So too, when the state of nature is disordered, do they often portend the same upset in the nature of the state. It therefore seemed a distinctly Shakespearean augury when Typhoon Gading drowned Manila in torrential rains last week, sending coconut trees swaying wildly in the wind and plunging much of the city deep into darkness. For in recent weeks, tremors and uncertainties have had all of Philippine politics listing between tragedy and comedy, swept...
...executed coup last week revealed some of the uncertainties still surrounding the new leadership, its failure underscored the continuing popularity of Aquino. Yet the wild card Enrile was the person on whom both sides found themselves staking their hopes. As the Shakespearean tempest raged on, it appeared that Enrile's own hopes might only increase. After all, as the poet wrote, "the soldier's virtue" is ambition...
...understandably won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival) makes you laugh and cry and hope for him, although you expect a heartbreaking finale of tragic proportions from the beginning of the movie. But Hoskins' role as a stepped on underdog doesn't make room for his near-Shakespearean tragic potential, and you leave the theater feeling cheated...
Clearly rising above the general adequacy is Miller, whose combination of verbal and athletic dexterity makes Jack Point at once the most convincing and most entertaining figure in the show. Whether leaping and somersaulting across the stage or acting the mock-Shakespearean trickster Gilbert envisioned Point to be, Miller possesses the vibrancy necessary to ignite the show...
...Shakespearean Syllogisms...