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The Last Word on Shakespeare?

Since this will be my last blog, I wanted to make a few parting comments about some of the more interesting issues that I’ve come across in the past two years. For me one of the most enduring questions about Shakespeare is the authorship debate. As much as we want some kind of resolution (and... [More]

R&J: All Grown Up?

We expect a lot of Romeo and Juliet don’t we? Not just the play, but the people too. They are at such a delicate age where the borderline between precious and precocious is hard to navigate. As an audience, we need to believe in true, instantaneous love even as we recognize the folly of it.... [More]

Souter/Shakespeare

The very recent announcement of Supreme Court Justice Souter’s retirement has already sent the media into a full-force blather-a-thon. Speculation has already begun regarding who the President will select to nominate as his successor. In the mean time, there are the usual reflections on... [More]

Neo Cleo

Thousands of years later, we’re still infatuated with the Queen of the Nile. Hundreds of writers, poets, artists, actors, directors and other fans of history have endeavored to dramatize the story of Cleopatra. Perhaps the two most famous film versions (a black and white epic from the 1930s... [More]

Parting Is Such Sweet Slashing

It is often said that young people have no sense of their own mortality, let alone anyone else’s. This might explain why horror films in the past two or three decades earn most of their box office receipts from those under 25 (and probably a good portion of them under 17, despite the R... [More]

Mischa, Mischa, Mischa!

In people-who-have-no-business-going-near-The-Bard news, Mischa Barton apparently wants to do a Shakespearean play. It seems that playing an entitled rich kid on a short-lived soap opera gives you all the Bard cred you need to tackle Elizabethan verse. Ms. Barton was quoted as saying, "I... [More]

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