Articles tagged "shakespeare"

Books Review

So Long as Men Can Breathe by Clinton Heylin

by Kevin Shaw

[21.Jul.09] :. It’s entirely refreshing to read about Shakespeare without the hushed tone of literary sanctity, while preserving the rigors of good research.

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Musicals top the Bard in a topsy-turvy year for Stratford

by Chris Jones [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[4.Jul.09] :. STRATFORD, Canada — Antoni Cimolino and Des McAnuff, the duopoly in charge of the beloved Stratford Shakespeare Festival, began their annual letter to patrons with a fervent declaration:...

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Anne Hathaway adds her star power to ‘Twelfth Night’

by Linda Winer [Newsday (MCT)]

[19.Jun.09] :. NEW YORK — What is it about “Twelfth Night” that turns New York into theater camp for movie stars in the summertime? Shakespeare created his mystical island of shipwrecked...

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McKellen’s ‘King Lear’ comes to the most convenient theater in the world: your living room

by Neal Justin [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[23.Mar.09] :. Catching Ian McKellen’s tour-de-force performance at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis required connections, a small fortune or lots of luck. Now all you need is a TV set. A year and a half...

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1978 British miniseries released on DVD as ‘Will Shakespeare’

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[16.Dec.08] :. William Shakespeare, the man, playwright and poet, has been portrayed onscreen since the dawn of motion pictures. But with the exception of Joseph Fiennes’ performance as the youngish Will in...

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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...

 

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.

 

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.

 

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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Film Review

Ran (1985/2000)

by Michael Abernethy

Kurosawa achieves an almost perfect fusion of storyteller and painter.

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