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Theatre producer/actor/director. Lecturer (college, graduate school, special events). Former college "prof."
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I love Classical and avant-garde/experimental. Favorites: Shakespeare, Gesualdo, Durufle, Hugo, Twain, Joan Mitchell (the painter), Rembrandt, Beethoven and Wagner, Puccini, Pollock, Kurosawa, Miyazaki, Duchamp, Satie, The Velvet Underground, The Mars Volta, Bright Eyes, Sigur Ros, Henry Cow, Henry Cowell, Harry Partch, John Cage, Kerouac, Joyce, Ginsburg, Burroughs, Saroyan, Mamet, D.H. Lawrence, Irving, Tom Robbins. Philip Glass, Doctor
Who, Webern, Can, The Who...
Hmm, actually, there are WAY too many to list... ;-)
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Incidentally, the timber and material for The Globe was "stolen" from London's...
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Shakespeare's great trait was his ability to retell and rework a story, or quote,...
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While Shakespeare made many references to the Bible -- he also borrowed heavily...
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Interestingly, it was shortly after this 2d Epilogue was written, in 1599, that...
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There is no evidence that Elizabeth ever went to The Globe. Southwark was a slum...
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A lot of us here speak of the language of Shakespeare as if we were dusty 19th...
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Let's see what Romeo and Juliet is about: sex, gangs, overbearing parents,...
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Again, I thought I added more than one internet cite, but, only one stuck.
So...
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No less than the (former) artistic director of the Globe Theatre (that's right THE...
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Marjorie Garber wrote a book, entitled "Dream in Shakespeare." I have not read it,...
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I do not mean to be contradictory, but there are many modern scholars (S....
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Why do you believe that Shakespeare was controversial in his time? The evidence...
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Terrific answer cburr. I believe that a good actor should be able to carry the...
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And actors LOVE soliloquies. They allow the actor to show his/her hand, and make...
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Characters have to reveal more of themselves than people actually do in...
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Oh my, this opens quite a can of worms! This is a debate that has raged for...
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In reply to #1: Absolutely, women could be wooers! Shakespeare's women woo as much...
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In reply to #3: Actually, in Elizabethan times, cross-dressing, sexual...
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