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...final scene, Cranko’s staging successfully rejuvenates an age-old ending to which modern audiences are inevitably desensitized. Rather than featuring two of the fastest, most un-thought-over suicides in history, the scene is drawn-out and painful, making it the most reverent of the Shakespearean tragedy in the ballet. When Juliet awakes to find her lover’s dead body beside her, she instinctively wraps her legs and arms around him and rocks him back and forth. Their bodies meld into one another, transcending the line between life and death, as she dances with...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Romeo, Juliet, and...Ballet? | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...signed up for John’s class, Shakespearean Genres, on the last day of shopping period in an attempt to balance out my Cores and History concentration requirements with a course for which I’d already read all but one of the books. But it only took a few lectures before I started showing up to class early in order to get a front row seat (I had plenty of competition) and lingering at the end of lecture trying to work up the courage to approach my newfound love interest. When John announced that he found...

Author: By Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shakespeare and Love | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...prominent places on the shelf I had previously reserved for the Harry Potter canon, and eventually scored a shelf of their own. When John tragically left Cambridge to move across the country, I sought another Shakespeare course in honor of his memory. I was rewarded not long after by Shakespearean Tragedy, where I fell hard for the deep, dulcet speaking voice and dynamic lecture style of my next love: Professor Stephen Greenblatt. I switched from being an aspiring History concentrator to British Hist & Lit, before moving across the Barker Center to the English department, home to many of Harvard?...

Author: By Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shakespeare and Love | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...happy power of arousing interest—in the subject matter. For example, my roommate was drawn to the linguistics department after Professor Andrew I. Nevins caught her fancy, and another friend packs her schedule by auditing extra courses taught by professors with sexy accents. Every female in my Shakespearean Tragedy section flocked to the course’s typically under-attended film screenings whenever our irresistible TF was overseeing them. Traditional academics may look down upon sex as a means of drawing students into lecture halls, but if it inspires us to explore previously unconsidered fields, take extra classes...

Author: By Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shakespeare and Love | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...elevates the lowlifes and mocks the highlifes. It's steeped in lived experience, with voices as distinctive and regional as a crab boil. Simon may be angry and intellectual--The Wire differs from most TV drama, he says, because it's based in Greek tragedy about fated individuals, not Shakespearean tragedy about heroic individuals--but his show doesn't play like a tract or a thesis. It's full of memorable characters, like Omar (Michael Kenneth Williams), the principled bandit who robs from drug dealers; Detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West), the boozy, dogged cop trying to work cases the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecting the Dots | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

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