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...minute’s time whatever prior cadences had been voice-tracking my life?” The critic answers “No...he can’t.” He continues by attacking Birkerts’s phrase “the moment of Shakespearean ripeness,” which Marcus alleges is Birkerts’ crass plot to remind his readers that “he knows Shakespeare.” A current student of Birkerts’s—who prefers to remain anonymous—says his teacher “is such...

Author: By Peter B. Weston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Very Ouch | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

Shakespeare's Staying Power Your story on the booming business in all things Shakespearean made me laugh [March 27]. Two weeks ago, I saw a performance of Macbeth in which all of the roles were played by men. What made it even odder was that they were all totally nude from the first to the last second of the play. Well, sometimes Macbeth had a cardboard crown on his head, and occasionally Lady Macbeth wore a very long wig, but that was all. When "she" took it off, there was Lady Macbeth with short blond hair and a penis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/11/2006 | See Source »

...First Knight”: In this timeless Arthurian legend, Gere proves that he may be an accomplished pianist and tap-dancer, but fencing is not his forte. This cinematic portrayal of the myth makes “A Kid in King Arthur’s Court” seem Shakespearean in comparison...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bad Roles from Gere to Eternity | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

Life Sciences 1a, which is taught by four full-time faculty members, requires a much greater expenditure of faculty time than other courses with enrollments in the hundreds, such as English 124g, “Shakespearean Genres,” Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” and Chemistry 17, “Principles of Organic Chemistry.” Each had enrollments of at least 250 students and were taught by a single Faculty member...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Intro Courses Come With Hefty Price Tag | 1/11/2006 | See Source »

...paper, meant to represent poison, and each actor languished into a dramatic death on stage. Actor Nora K. C. Flum ’07, who last spring was in the Winthrop House Drama Society’s performance of “Cymbeline,” a lesser-known Shakespearean play, said that, as an English concentrator, she wanted to support the tutors by being a part of the performance. “I really like Shakespeare,” she said. Non-resident Lowell tutor Leslie E. Eckel ’98 said “Hamlet?...

Author: By Rebecca L. Ledford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hamlet Performed Off the Cuff | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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