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...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Powerful Menendez colleagues, including New Jersey’s other US senator, Cory Booker, have called for him to resign his seat in Congress....
...If you haven’t yet read Time Shelter (W&N/Liveright) by Georgi Gospodinov, winner of this year’s International Booker Prize, a treat awaits: it’s a brilliant, elegiac and darkly humorous story of memory...
...Two years before that, she played Henry V at Regent’s Park, and insists that both times, rather than wanting to “play a man”, she wanted to understand how to play Henry or Hamlet....
...I recall a production of Hamlet in which Hamlet was called Omelette.” The author, who turns 83 in November, is in impish mood....
...Looming over Dürnstein are the ruins of a castle where England’s King Richard I, aka the Lionheart, was briefly incarcerated in 1192, on his way back from the crusades, after offending Leopold V, Duke of...
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Through the sale of bracelets and pendants, the brand has raised more than $20mn to provide water, immunisations and educational tools to those in need. louisvuittonforunicef.com V is for Visual AidsAcne...
...“I don’t consciously model myself on Henry V,” he laughs, adding that the answer lies in the pluralism of the plays and the fact that they demand true ensemble playing (Doran begins the rehearsal process...
...A natural to play Hamlet on stage, he did, in 1979, and among his 1980s movies, he also appeared in three off-Broadway Shakespeare productions, Henry V, Richard II and A Midsummer Night’s Dream....
...FS: Last year both Booker Prizes, the French Prix Goncourt and the Nobel Prize for Literature all went to writers from the African continent....
...Also in demand for its superb views across the Test Valley is the nearby hamlet of Up Somborne, despite offering little in the way of amenities....
...He’s done Hamlet, Othello. But the staging in this one is really contemporary....
...Phoenix Suns‘ Devin Booker inadvertently paid homage to franchise legend Steve Nash by powering through a match with a busted nose....
...George V’s horse Anmer caused whose death on June 4 1913? Which cocktail is made with vodka and orange juice (above)?...
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Yet in life the revered Booker and Nobel prizewinning author was famously rebarbative....
...In that case we get the much-discussed V-shaped recovery in the third quarter....
...Best of the rest What I’ve been reading elsewhere As the first black woman to win the Booker prize, Bernardine Evaristo deserved to win alone....
...Fellow presidential contenders, senators Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand said for the first time that they agreed....
...Terry knows from personal experience how live those plays can feel: she was performing Henry V in 2016 (playing the title role) when the referendum on EU membership took place....
...The Bard wrote numerous penetrating studies of madness of one kind or another — Hamlet, Lear, Leontes — but only Richard responds to nemesis so corrosively....
...Apart from extensive stage productions, Branagh’s five acclaimed film adaptations of Shakespeare plays began with 1989’s Henry V, and have included Hamlet and Much Ado about Nothing....
...On the liberal side, dozens of activists from Group Justice and the pro-choice NARAL, rallied outside the Supreme Court on Thursday, together with senior Democratic lawmakers Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and...
...Claudius in Hamlet, Act IV Scene V You know those bells that are supposed to never ring to signal a turn in the market? Well, they started ringing on September 27 and 28....
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