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William Shakespeare

Posted inFilm

Confronting Doubt with the Power of Shakespeare

by Bedatri D. Choudhury August 29, 2021August 27, 2021

Argentine director Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella is the latest in a string of offbeat films about the nature of performance and creativity.

Posted inArt

What’s So Hard About Painting Shakespeare?

by Michael Glover July 4, 2020November 5, 2020

Many paintings of Shakespearean scenes feel mawkish or literal-minded, flat-footed or lacking in emotional depth.

Posted inArt

An All-Black Production of Much Ado About Nothing Comes to Central Park

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas May 28, 2019May 29, 2019

Shakespeare’s classic comedy has a free month-long run in NYC starring a cast of two dozen African American performers, including Danielle Brooks from Orange Is the New Black.

Posted inPerformance

Before the Trump-Inspired Julius Caesar, There Was Orson Welles’s Anti-Fascist Staging

by PJ Grisar June 15, 2017June 15, 2017

The current, controversial Shakespeare in the Park show owes a more than superficial debt to Welles’s landmark production.

Posted inIn Brief

Bank of America and Delta Dump Public Theater Over Trump-Themed Julius Caesar [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton June 12, 2017June 13, 2017

Beware the ides of June.

Posted inArt

Actors Have Been Dying to Play the Skeletal Role of Yorick in ‘Hamlet’

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 12, 2016October 16, 2017

Reports last month suggested that the skull of playwright William Shakespeare was no longer in his grave.

Posted inArt

The Poisons, Potions, and Charms of Shakespeare’s Plays

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 5, 2016August 19, 2021

Potions, poisons, and symbolic herbs are frequent plot devices in the plays of William Shakespeare, and reflect the medical knowledge of his time.

Posted inIn Brief

Shakespeare’s Only Handwritten Manuscript Contains a Message of Empathy for Migrants

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 18, 2016March 18, 2016

Aside from a few signatures, only one example of William Shakespeare’s handwriting survives, a speech from around 1600 that imagines Sir Thomas More addressing the rage of an anti-migrant crowd in England.

Posted inBooks

How Graphic Designers Around the World Interpret Shakespeare

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 22, 2016January 22, 2016

When the Globe Theatre along London’s River Thames opened in 1599, a flag depicting Hercules hoisting a globe announced the opening of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

Posted inIn Brief

A Digital Re-creation of a Lost 18th-Century Shakespeare Museum

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 18, 2015December 18, 2015

One of the first museums created for the enjoyment of the middle class was the Shakespeare Gallery, opened in 1789 by John Boydell.

Posted inArt

Justine, a Prophet: Blindness and Vision in Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’

by Cynthia Cruz September 5, 2015September 22, 2015

The opening shot of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) is a close-up of Justine (played by Kirsten Dunst) her eyes shut, her wet, white-blonde hair wild, a feral halo around her face. And then she slowly opens her eyes.

Posted inNews

Mysterious Engravings Question Authorship of Shakespeare’s Works

by Laura C. Mallonee March 13, 2015March 12, 2015

William Shakespeare was a commoner who wrote witty plays attended by Queen Elizabeth. Sir Francis Bacon was a noble who served as her Attorney General. Right?

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