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...even an attractive bad guy. In his crown, he looks like the British (or Hanover German) version of a middle-aged American in full Elks regalia. But George, as portrayed by Nigel Hawthorne, is irresistible. In all his bawdy charm and depth, the King is a Shakespearean creation...
...Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series debuts with Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart on the bridge and an android riding shotgun...
...lights--all the contraptions of film-making. We are clearly made accomplices to the fact that this is a constructed story. Rather than allow us to be lulled by the illusions of the film maker's world, Branagh alerts us that the film-maker's world is all a Shakespearean masquerade. Throughout the movie, this narrator-chorus will abruptly return to remind us that this is not reality. The abruptness is also a reflection of the emotional suddenness we see both Henry and in the motley characters--thieves, villains and princesses--which populate his land...
This assertion is just as extraliterary as those set forth by feminists, multiculturalists and all the others who discuss books in ways Bloom ridicules and despises. And Bloom's view produces chapter titles such as "Freud: A Shakespearean Reading" and "Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare," in which the actual works and words of the upstart authors are wrenched out of context and forced into hypothetical bouts of cross-generational arm wrestling...
...that Professor Garber's class offered more of an MTV view, that it seemed too fast for any real introspection into the plays," says Ryan T. McGee '98, who shopped both and opted for Greenblatt, "whereas Professor Greenblatt's class offered an in-depth and interesting view of the Shakespearean canon...