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...would explain the plenitude of Tudor legalese in the plays? Again, unlike the Stratford man, this nobleman would have once resided in Venice, the site of several plays. An able soldier, our earl would also be the nephew of a pioneer in the form of sonnet we now call Shakespearean; another uncle translated Ovid's Metamorphoses, the source of much Shakespearean allusion. He would be hailed as poet and playwright and become patron of an acting troupe. Finally, what if our nobleman had on his crest a lion that holds out a paw and, ah yes, shakes a spear...
...last political act of the five-foot-three giant known affectionately by Westerners as the "PLK" ("Plucky Little King") was to intervene in Jordan's Shakespearean palace intrigue to ensure that he would be succeeded by his son, Abdullah, rather than his brother, Hassan. Despite being immersed in the modern concerns of diplomacy and statesmanship, the importance of the royal bloodline never diminished for Hussein...
...desire to hunt for Stoppard's touch is understandable. The playwright, who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1937 and educated in India and England, catapulted to fame with a different Shakespearean work: the 1967 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an existential reimagining of two characters from Hamlet. Since then his work has been known for its wordplay and highbrow subject matter--such as chaos theory in Arcadia, or the life of poet A.E. Housman in The Invention of Love, now running in London. Many of his plays have been criticized for their emotional inaccessibility, but, says Stoppard...
...Stoppard has won most awards out there, and he was knighted in 1997; but he is worried that his work is like "building sand castles"--with Shakespearean immortality far from guaranteed. "I'm thinking of the tide coming in and sweeping it all away," he admits. "History is stiff with writers who have been praised in terms exceeding anything my generation has received, and you think, 'Well, where are they now?' It's a chastening thought." But not one, fortunately, that keeps him from his desk for long...
...fans will flock to the theaters simply to have another chance to see the Enterprise crew in action. And from that standpoint, the film succeeds. To an audience that knows the TV program well, these are not actors playing roles - they are the characters. We don't see accomplished Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart successfully portraying a science fiction character; we see our old friend, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise...