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...translates. “[A translator] can’t go word for word, sentence for sentence. Something that was funny to audiences in 1895 or 1910 might not be funny now,” he explains. “There’s a responsibility to the text, and you have to be faithful to the plot, but also make people laugh. The translator definitely leaves his or her mark.”This spirit of adaptation applies to the production of the play itself. According to Shapiro, the original intent of French farce performances in Adams House...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Belle Époque Humor Amuses in Adams | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...HRDC’s production “The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark,” the cast and crew dare to tamper with the sacred texts of Shakespeare. “Hamlet is this worshipped thing. A lot of Shakespeare’s works are. It’s really quite sad, I think,” says director Jason R. Vartikar ’11. “The Tragedy of Hamlet”—not to be confused with the more traditional version being staged this weekend in Leverett House?...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Hamlet’ with Modernist Influences | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...Innocents and from Degas the arched back of a woman bathing herself in a tub. Eadweard Muybridge's sequential photos of wrestlers gave him a perennial motif--sex as sexual combat. He also drew from sources far outside art. One of his favorites was an illustrated medical text about illnesses of the mouth. He worked from reproductions, movie stills and photographs of all kinds pinned to the walls of his studio and scattered on the floor in a sedimentary muck of paper, rags, used brushes and broken furniture that he would dive into for ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragic Hero: A Majestic Francis Bacon Show | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...Sony Vaio P The Vaio P (from $1,170) pairs supermodel proportions - it's as thick as a tube of lipstick - with savvy features. Text on the 8-in. (20 cm) LED display can be magnified with a key tap. And the 60-GB drive can be upped to a 128-gig solid-state drive, which, as it has no moving parts, is more likely to survive a fall. www.sony.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Wonders: Three Netbooks Worth Owning | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...learning more about what we do here,” he said. According to Rodman, graduate or post-doctoral students at the GSE will be responsible for covering events and conveying the information over the feed. Twitter is a free service that allows users to upload snippets of text, or “tweets,” from a computer or mobile device and send them to interested parties. Subscribers can choose to receive the updates via text message on their mobile phones or to be notified by e-mail. The new account is GSE’s second twitter...

Author: By Karthik R. Kasaraneni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GSE Launches New Twitter Feed | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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