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...daring new biography, Shakespeare's Wife, Shakespearean authority Germaine Greer seeks to right the wrongs done to Anne. Through documentary evidence and close readings of Elizabethan texts, she re-embeds Anne's life in its social context to deliver the first systematic rebuttal to Anne's detractors. What emerges is a provocative, well-reasoned set of hypotheses that suggests Shakespeare drew inspiration from, and even loved, his other half...
...Shakespearean theater requires the contemporary performer to make an initial choice between tradition and creative reinterpretation. Directed by Joshua Randall and co-produced by Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05 and Benjamin M. Poppel ’09, Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre (HRST) took Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to the stage this past Friday in the Loeb Experimental Theatre, but never quite made that choice. Regardless of its ambivalent direction, HRST provided audiences with a successful comedy performed by an enthusiastic, talented cast. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Besides these anomalies, the play maintained a traditional performance, delighting audiences with a witty Shakespearean romantic comedy performed by a talented cast. Daniel R. Pecci ’09 as Nick Bottom, the weaver, was among the most memorable cast members. Instead of playing Bottom as simply half-man, half-ass, Pecci embraced the character so fully that he acted like a total ass. Consistently eliciting a laugh from the audience, even when he was not speaking, Pecci played Bottom with hilarious complexity—simultaneously vain, insecure, and ridiculous...
...Sanders Theatre had been cited 50 years before as the finest Shakespearean theater in the country. We took out the seats in the center and built a stage there,” Aaron recalls. “It was remarkably well acted. We were trying to simulate what it was like to see the play in those days when it was first done. We brought the lights up at the beginning to simulate daylight and they never changed during the whole production...
...Juliet respectively. We’ve asked them to spill the beans and give us a behind-the-scenes look on working on the play. The Harvard Crimson: “Romeo and Juliet” is one of the most well known, if not the most well known Shakespearean play. How do you approach these two characters? Lois Beckett: I think it’s really hard, especially at the balcony scene because everyone knows it. I used to do it with my friends as a joke at parties...but I was always Romeo because I knew the lines...