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...interviews during the past two days, senior members of the English Department said that they went ahead with the second vote to indicate formally their continued support for the Shakespearean scholar, but did not expect the vote to influence Bok's decision...
Leading scholars at other universities "wroteto say that [Watson] was the best Shakespearean inthe world of his generation," according toProfessor of English and Comparative LiteratureWalter J. Kaiser...
...answer in each case is the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, which unfolds where it started, within the ivy-covered remnant walls of a onetime Chautauqua dome in the folksy college town of Ashland (pop. 15,000). The first season, three performances, was accompanied by boxing matches to defray costs. The fights lost money. The theater made a profit. Today the Ashland operation, revered on the West Coast but largely unknown elsewhere, has an annual budget of $5.5 million and sells more than 90% of capacity...
...Shakespearean drama, both tragic and comic, the storms and calamities that shake the sublunary globe are reflections of turmoil in the hearts of men. So too, when the state of nature is disordered, do they often portend the same upset in the nature of the state. It therefore seemed a distinctly Shakespearean augury when Typhoon Gading drowned Manila in torrential rains last week, sending coconut trees swaying wildly in the wind and plunging much of the city deep into darkness. For in recent weeks, tremors and uncertainties have had all of Philippine politics listing between tragedy and comedy, swept...
...executed coup last week revealed some of the uncertainties still surrounding the new leadership, its failure underscored the continuing popularity of Aquino. Yet the wild card Enrile was the person on whom both sides found themselves staking their hopes. As the Shakespearean tempest raged on, it appeared that Enrile's own hopes might only increase. After all, as the poet wrote, "the soldier's virtue" is ambition...