Word: shakespeareans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years Richard Dreyfuss has been hoping for a Shakespearean role, but now that he finally has the chance to play Richard III, he has to do the king as a queen. In Neil Simon's new film The Goodbye Girl, Dreyfuss is cast as an aspiring actor ordered by his wacky director to play Richard as gay. "I'll be getting a lot of phone calls from irate history professors," says Dreyfuss. But he is enjoying his role. Says he: "It's a happy movie. It has no Jaws or Midnight Cowboy...
...treated previously. Among the best essays are "The Times of the Signs," which explores the gradual dissociation of the mythological and scientific cosmologies in the early modern period and hints at their eventual unification, and "The Romance as Masque," which takes off from Frye's discussion of Shakespearean comedy and romance in A Natural Perspective...
When Japanese Salesman Goro Hasegawa, 44, invented his simple board game in 1971, his father, a Shakespearean scholar, duly noted that the appeal of the game was based on a series of "dramatic reversals." Perhaps, he suggested, it should be called Othello. Today Othello is a national pastime played by some 25 million Japanese-and a full-blown fad replete with towels, tie clasps, and key chains, all emblazoned with the distinctive Othello emblem. Spearheaded by Fumio Fujita, 27, a barber from outside Tokyo and the game's reigning champion, Othello has invaded England...
Melissa "Serious" Manchester will read dramatic monologues from Shakespearean light opera in tandem with Aztec Two-Step, at the Berklee Performance Center on Nov. 19 at 7:30p.m...
Died. Dame Edith Evans, 88, legendary British actress; in Goudhurst, England. Evans' repertory ranged from Shakespearean tragedy to modern comedy; she created several roles for George Bernard Shaw, who wrote The Millionairess especially for her. Dame Edith made her film debut at the age of 60 in a 1948 version of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades. Her other films included Look Back in Anger, The Nun's Story, Tom Jones and The Whisperers. Evans started acting in amateur theater productions while working as an apprentice milliner in London. She caught the eye of Director William Poel...