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Cabot House these days is a bit like a Shakespearean play...
...therefore are not key factors in its impending reevaluation. A far more counterproductive aspect of the Core is the policy that keeps department courses out. What is the logic behind an educational system which prefers that I sit in Sanders for one of Marjorie Garber's lectures on Shakespearean plays, rather than being taught by visiting Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt in his field of specialty, "Shakespeare and Cultural Difference...
...want to witness the visual dynamics of paradigm confusion in a Shakespearean comedy, see Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing" now available on video. If you didn't believe in the romantic potential of paradigms before you see this film, you surely will afterwards. For me, it was a stunning display of paradigm interplay...
Brian Bedford, the Shakespearean veteran who won a Tony nomination last year for Timon of Athens, has the central role in both plays. In the first, School for Husbands, he's the overprotective guardian of a young woman (Patricia Dunnock) whom he intends to marry. She, however, has other plans-namely, getting the guardian to unwittingly bring her together with the younger fellow she really loves. Bedford, wearing long Ben Franklin locks and mugging dryly to the audience, helps overcome the sense that these are stock characters whom Moliere would develop more fully in later works...
Bennett recognizes a certain debt to a famous predecessor. As George recovers from his illness, he reads aloud from "King Lear" with his doctor. Bennett's king, however, is not about to be destroyed by his heirs and followers like his Shakespearean predecessor...