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...Like Shakespeare’s Prospero on his island, he is waiting for someone from his past to return and set him free....
...Teachers had five days of training with the RSC and then delivered 20 hours of Shakespeare lessons to 9- and 10-year-olds....
...In a development not foreseen by Shakespeare, they also forfeit their phones, slinging them regretfully into a flower-laden basket, one of many smart contemporary touches....
...In Gideon Rachman’s column “Ukraine is the frontline of a larger conflict” (Opinion, April 22), if you replace “Russia, China, Iran and North Korea” with “the US, the UK, Germany and France” (without replacing...
...Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius combines documentary commentary with dramatic re-enactments that follow the playwright from rural Stratford to the urban chaos of Elizabethan London to the royal court....
...She’s excited about the recent opening of the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, which has a new home in Richmond, California....
...Shakespeare wrote 38 plays and 150-odd poems without giving the slightest hint of an overarching worldview....
...There are several player kings in Robert Icke’s fresh, fleet, state-of-the-nation staging of Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays — all of them between a rock and a hard place....
...There’s definitely that sort of magical ending which you get in the late Shakespeare plays.” The novel is certainly concerned with family, belonging and forgiveness....
...Which Noël Coward play features the medium Madame Arcati? What’s the only Shakespeare play with an English place name in the title? What’s the common name for nitrous oxide?...
...But in textual terms, this adaptation by Zinnie Harris aims to put a rocket underneath Shakespeare’s famous tragedy and blow open its treatment of Lady Macbeth — with mixed results....
...Truth, the casualty of our age, becomes key here. We notice keenly the cost of telling the truth, the even greater cost of not hearing it....
...The play opens soon at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, before a run at London’s Kiln Theatre, and Toossi is “slightly terrified” about how it will land in a country where the title...
...Only for books, especially fiction, does the presumption of the lone genius hang on. That might have surprised Shakespeare, who co-wrote some of his plays and adapted many from other writers’ work....
...How appropriate that an update of the EU’s fiscal rules is thwarted by the “narcissism of small differences” during the presidency of Spain (“Narcissism of small differences delays accord on EU fiscal rules...
...In general, I think people are often too reluctant to admit that they have arrived late to a party, which is part of why many of the true greats — Beethoven, Austen, McCartney, Shakespeare, Davis — are in...
...But, even while laying siege to a national monument of male genius, Tchaikovsky’s Wife has the leaden institutional feel of a prestige superproduction....
...“I approach Shakespeare as . . . ” he pauses. “I wanted to say as a friend but I’m not going to say that because I would never compare myself with his genius....
...Lolita Chakrabarti’s tender stage adaptation of O’Farrell’s heartbreaking story of the death of Shakespeare’s 11-year-old son had its premiere in Stratford-upon-Avon earlier this year....
...Just as the set transitions us from the spoiled nature of the battlefield to the hard concrete of the military compound, Fiennes also shifts into the unnatural....
...Who shot and killed the Dallas policeman JD Tippit on 22 November 1963? According to Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play, what kind of look did Cassius have?...
...There’s no such unifying gesture for the history plays, Icke says — Shakespeare is just too rich....
...Ralph Davis’s Iago, meanwhile, is the sort of grublike man drawn to the police as a means to advance his bullish sense of self-worth....
...Then there is the eternal puzzle of Shakespeare....
...Yet genius is a hard enough billing to live up to, without us expecting instant gratification too. The film works on a slow release; there is a stubborn mystery to its magic....
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