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...with lazy, sneaky college students in mind - not the likes of William Shakespeare. Yet the software may have settled a centuries-old mystery over the authorship of an unattributed play from the late 1500s called The Reign of Edward III. Literature scholars have long debated whether the play was written by Shakespeare - some bits are incredibly Bard-like, but others don't resemble his style at all. The verdict, according to one expert: the play is likely a collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd, another popular playwright of his time. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Royal Shakespeare Company...
...Hooper's new film, The Damned United, British actor Michael Sheen takes on Clough. Like the two roles he's best known for - Tony Blair in The Queen and David Frost in Frost/Nixon - the part was written for Sheen by British playwright Peter Morgan, their sixth collaboration. Unlike Blair, Clough is barely known outside Britain, and The Damned United is unlikely to get a wide release. That's a shame; great though Sheen's Blair and Frost were, his Clough is of an even higher order, combining psychological insight with dead-on accuracy. (See TIME's photo-esay "Soccer...
...hasn't lost his touch. He comes from Port Talbot, the same South Wales steel town that produced Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins. Sheen says he spends three months studying characters, "looking at every bit of footage I can find and every book about them that's been written" and ferreting out their weak spots. In Clough's case, he didn't have to look hard. For all his braggadocio, Clough wore his vulnerability on his sleeve. (See pictures of the great British thespians of Harry Potter...
...Sheen's ability to get under the skin of people we think we know well that makes him so compelling. His Blair may have a longer afterlife than the real one; Sheen will play the former Prime Minister (in a role again written by Morgan) opposite Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton in The Special Relationship, due in 2011. Meanwhile, he moonlights, literally, as the werewolf Lucian in the Underworld series, and he'll appear as the vampire Aro in the upcoming Twilight sequel, New Moon...
...Flies.” Through the Electra myth, Sartre’s work skillfully explores notions of free will and human essence. This mélange of existentialism and Greek mythology would have been unremarkable to the 20th century audience for whom the play was written. But redefined within the contours of the 21st century—as the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production which opened this Friday demonstrates—“The Flies” becomes incredibly more complex...