Word: shakespeareanisms
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Love’s Fire is a collection of short plays that take their basis from Shakespearean sonnets. Some scenes are quite successful, while others, like the overwrought first piece, are less cohesive...
Having avoided that classic trap, McGee falls into a newer one. Some modern Shakespearean directors feel it necessary to alter Shakespeare’s plays in order distinguish their piece as an original production, failing to ground their revisions in the original text. McGee commits the error in creating a series of textually baseless flashbacks in the mind of the Friar, who McGee portrays as the ultimate villain; though the sequences are well executed, they only confuse the audience and detract from the show...
...spectacular acting and keen directing unquestionably overcome the problems presented by the additions to the text, making this a memorable Shakespearean excursion. Rounding out a great HRST season, McGee and company dazzle the eye and move the heart with this outstanding presentation of Romeo and Juliet...
...Their names teem with a sort of secret Shakespearean life. I browse through field guides to wildflowers and weeds, and when I read them, I feel as if I have rediscovered a rich, hidden vein of the English language-a parallel universe populated by such vivid protagonists as Carrion Flower and Wild Bleeding Heart, as Vipers Bugloss and Crazyweed, as Hog Peanut, Corn Cockle, Tansy leaf Aster, Showy Orchis, Death Camas, and that damned elusive Scarlet Pimpernel...
...very good Shakespearean actor," Biddle says. "That's where he got his reputation...