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...that he played--brilliantly played--Jimmy Stewart. But that ignores the pioneering vocal eccentricity, the stammer that miraculously made every line seem as if it had just occurred to him; he was Method before Method was cool. And to say Stewart played himself hardly does justice to the near Shakespearean breadth of his characters and performances. The mannerisms evolved; the man grew...
...Hyperion has done a remarkable job of realizing one of Shakespeare's finest comedies, and the surprising youth of its cast--nearly all of whom are first-years and sophomores--bodes well for the next few years of Shakespearean performance at Harvard. Although the play's length (two-and-a-half-hours) may seem daunting to some, the show is so skillfully realized and so well paced that the time is well spent. In the words of Queen Hippolyta in the fantastic final scene, "This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard!" But you will enjoy every minute...
...composed with any particular text in mind, Brahms' sketches for the work indicate that he was probably thinking about Goethe's Faust while writing it. In attempting to discover which "tragedy" inspired the piece, scholars have linked it with the story of Hero and Leander and with Shakespearean tragedy...
...placid Switzerland. And to focus too much on the millenarian climate is to ignore the fact that even in Shakespeare, comets mark "change of times and states" (as he writes in the first sentence of Henry VI, Part 1). When prodigies break out in the fourth act of a Shakespearean tragedy, it is a sign that the time is out of joint: some fundamental link between man and his environment, as intrinsic as the link between parent and child, is broken...
...flaws are few and far between. The players' diction, while hardly in classical Shakespearean style, is usually fresh and easily comprehensible, although some actors do occasionally garble lines by speaking too quickly. If the actors feel pressured to rush through their lines, the play might have benefited from further cutting...