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Field representatives did all they could to provide information and spark interest. The English Department handed out free copies of Shakespearean works, while members of the History Department sported matching blue and gray shirts...
These outstanding individual performances are also important in helping to overshadow some of the weaker characterizations. Some supporting actors occasionally fall into the trap of over-dramatization, as is easy and common with a Shakespearean play. For several, the monologues and long passages are difficult to deliver realistically. Others attempt to maintain an appearance of shock and artificial enthrallment in the action of the play that is ultimately not believable...
...students enter Harvard without having read a Shakespearean play, but the number that has sat through live productions may be considerably smaller. Unfortunately, opportunities to watch one of the Bard’s works have never been abundant on campus, and they decreased even more when Harvard’s only all-Shakespeare troupe, the Hyperion Theatre Company, experienced an organizational and financial crisis several years ago. However, several undergraduate thespians, led by President Sean R. Fredricks ’07 and Vice President Tara L. Moross ’09, hope to engineer a Shakespearean renaissance on campus...
DIED. Ian Richardson, 72, veteran Scottish actor whose rich portrayals of Shakespearean schemers set the tone for his most famous role, the immoral British Parliament member Francis Urquhart on British TV's satirical cult hit House of Cards; of unknown causes; in London. As an oily politician, he created a catchphrase used for reporters and others--and jokingly cited by real-life leaders worldwide. "You may very well say that," he would answer an inquisitor before quickly adding, "I couldn't possibly comment...
...gangs to combine into an even more fearsome force. Their peacefulish, emptyish sentiment is neatly summarized by The Game with this lovely couplet: “I’m Martin Luther King with two guns on/ Huey P. Newton with Air Force Ones on.” Shakespearean? Sensical? You be the judge...