Articles tagged "shakespeare"

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‘As You Like It,’ premiering Tuesday on HBO

by David Bianculli [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[20.Aug.07] :. In directing a new version of William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” Kenneth Branagh fosters a giddy sort of freedom in his actors. Branagh’s adaptation (premiering Tuesday...

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Kenneth Branagh takes Shakespeare to Japan for HBO

by Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[14.Aug.07] :. Irish actor Kenneth Branagh just cannot leave well enough alone. Not only is he an actor of note (he’s been dubbed the heir apparent to Laurence Olivier), he’s also a director. And...

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Books Review

Shakespeare the Thinker by A.D. Nuttall

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[16.May.07] :. To be or not to be a philosopher did not concern Shakespeare, so far as we know. And we know very little.

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The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber

by Chris Barsanti

[9.Apr.07] :. When the big firefight finally comes, it's delivered with such killer and off-kilter panache that Elmore Leonard would be envious.

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Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

by Tim O'Neil

[3.Oct.05] :. Seemingly no kernel of isolated trivia or controversial factoid is small enough to escape the author's notice.

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Ran (1985/2000)

by Michael Abernethy

Kurosawa achieves an almost perfect fusion of storyteller and painter.

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