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...fact, a close look at Stephen J. Greenblatt's English 126g: "Shakespearean Tragedy" and Marjorie Garber's Literature and Arts A-40: "Shakespeare, The Early Plays" provides unique insight into some of the differences between a course in Harvard's core curriculum and a high-level department offering...
...city's history plays like a Shakespearean tragedy, with rich suburban bankers blockbusting white families into the outskirts of town and running Black neighborhoods into the ground. Boston is a incredibly diverse and divided town, one that boasts a history of liberal ideals but also carries the shame of the South Boston busing crisis...
...likelihood the Warren Commission was right: there was no conspiracy behind the murder of John F. Kennedy. But almost from the moment of the ) murder, works such as Barbara Garson's Shakespearean satire MacBird!, Richard Condon's gothic novel Winter Kills and Oliver Stone's film JFK have suggested the story makes a better myth if Lee Harvey Oswald were a cat's-paw instead of a gnat who changed history. The major boon to conspiracy theorists is that the facts do not fit neatly into the Warren Commission scenario. Unfortunately, they fit even less neatly into any alternative, which...
Bergman plays with several different elements in "Smiles of a Summer Night." The film is grounded in the notion of Shakespearean comedy, particularly A Midsummer Night's Dream. The tropes of the husband and wife who are separated and then reunited, the sylvan atmosphere and the magic spells buttress the film. Egerman is very much like Bottom; he plays an ass throughout the movie, but at the end, after Anne has run off with Henrik, he is made human again. The film also contains echoes of Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro and allusions to Jean Renior's classic 1939 film...
...does more to demystify the British monarchy than any Daily Mail photos of Princess Di in the exercise gym. The face-to-face confrontations between King and Prime Minister are epic battles of wills and words worthy of George Bernard Shaw. Yet Urquhart's monstrousness ! has taken on almost Shakespearean proportions; the murder that ended Part I continues to haunt him like Banquo's ghost...