Word: shakespearianism
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...Sept. 10, Shakespearian actor Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (a working modern replica of the London theater Will co-owned and acted at), unveiled a "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt." Created by the California-based Shakespeare Authorship Coalition, an educational charity dedicated to raising awareness of the Shakespeare identity question, the document asks the world of academia to accept that there is "room for reasonable doubt about the identity of William Shakespeare" and to start taking the research into who is really responsible for his works seriously. Along with Jacobi and Rylance, signatories...
...more traditional cinematic scenes, all the while using unconventional improvisational techniques. “There are two sorts of extremes to theater which I have experienced,” Cutmore-Scott says. “One is total audience interaction, communication with the audience, kind of soliloquizing, taking Shakespearian asides, the characters talking to the audience. And I also like the typical cinematic way of doing things, which is when they’re just not looking at the audience, and there’s a fourth wall there.” Cutmore-Scott says he wanted to create something...
...accordion, fiddle, Uilleann (dubbed “indoor bagpipes” by Hester) and bodhran (an Irish percussion instrument) will accompany a vocal musician who, according to Spillane-Hinks, spans the gap between music and theater, and who will introduce the performance in a manner reminiscent of a Shakespearian prologue...
...Cameos by characters from previous works, nonsense doodles, and even Hitchcock-like appearances by the artist himself, are de rigueur to Tezuka. He has an almost Shakespearian desire to mix high drama with low comedy, though Shakespeare rarely had characters doing both. At one point during volume one a powerful general sends away his escorts when he wishes to bathe in a pond. Adopting a silly, girlish pose and sprouting long eyelashes he says, "I don't want you to see me naked. Pray, won't you go?" Some of the oddity may be attributable to the translation, which puts...
...What Shakespearian character said “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...