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The Shakespeare scholar Clare Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, delivered the annual Allen Hall Lecture last week and ...
The “Hacks” star returns to Broadway after 25 years in a triumph for her, if not for the old-fashioned, flowery play about ...
AT SAN QUENTIN REHABILITATION CENTER IN MARIN, INCARCERATED PEOPLE PERFORM SHAKESPEARE WITH A MODERN TWIST. GIVE MY. LOVE TO YOU. YOU’RE MY END AND MY BEGINNING. MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ...
Laura Piani's amiable new romance is weighed down by all its allusions and borrowings — and ultimately fails to deliver on ...
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...
It is a comprehensive but accessible overview that places Shakespeare’s works within a cultural web of comparisons, parallels, references and allusions, visual as well as written, to classical myths – ...
The script is stuffed with pop culture references, some as old as Shakespeare, some so newly minted, TBH, there were some allusions that alluded me. NTL, IRL runs on a dramatic dynamic and attention ...
New analysis of a letter fragment mentioning Shakespeare and his wife suggests the couple lived together in London in the early 17th century. New research examining a fragment of a 17th century le ...
Director Maurice Emmanuel Parent clears that bar at Actors’ Shakespeare Project by capitalizing ... verbal, or musical allusions to pop culture. Blue Man Group. “The Lion King.” ...
"Shakespeare is important," she said. "It allows you to understand a lot of references and allusions in other English texts. "I think it's a good idea, it's just about how you execute it and make it ...
(Also,) I'm from the town that has a Shakespeare Festival ... to Jane Eyre — you’ve got a whole bunch of other literary allusions too. I hope that maybe the Easter eggs of something (brings ...
Swift works the allusions so seamlessly into her lyrics that some may not pick up on the references, but acknowledging them adds yet another layer to her songs. From Shakespeare to Dickens ...