Hamlet

Your Guide to Surviving Shakespeare in College

Uloop | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Cliff Notes, Theater, Shakespeare, Reading, College, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, College News

This is the one time in class where viewing the movie is beneficial. Shakespeare was written as a play, not a book, so seeing the scenes played out is helpful when trying to decipher the plot-line and character motivation.

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Astoria Characters: The ComiX Creator

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Astoria, Hamlet, Comics, Michelle Palumbo, Starfighter, Michelle Palumbo Starfighter, Starfighter Comic, Hamletmachine, New York News

Michelle, a super-shy, self-effacing, self-described sci-fi nerd with a nose ring and a pair of chin piercings, created Starfighter, an online erotic comic strip, three years ago.

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How to Enjoy Reading Shakespeare

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, William Shakespeare, Al Pacino, Hamlet, Richard III, Shakespeare, Othello, Chaucer, Shakespeare Birthday, Culture News

When you finally meet William Shakespeare on his own turf, his language begins to open new doors in your consciousness.

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Top 10 Most Disturbing Shakespeare Deaths

Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Goriest Shakespeare Deaths, Video, Romeo and Juliet, Books News, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, Worst Shakespeare Deaths, Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, Shakespeare, Othello, Shakespeare Death, Slidepollajax, Most Disturbing Shakespeare Deaths, Books News

To celebrate Shakespeare's birthday, we're featuring some of our favorite archival pieces about his life and work. This one was first published in Aug...

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What Would Hamlet, the Queen of Pop, Die Antwoord and Machiavelli Do Together?

Annie Fabricant | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Theater, The Rub, Queen of Pop, Hamlet, Experimental Theater, Sleep No More, David Henry Gerson, Shakespeare, Young Jean Lee, Slidepollajax, Zucotti Park, Occupy Wall Street, Nessa Norich, Die Antwoord, The Rub Review, Arts News

As a theater maker, how do you generate toe-curling drama, excitement and intrigue for an audience whose hitherto experience of Hamlet is loaded with memories, associations and scrutiny?

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Paul And The Ghost Of Christian Past

Robert Orlando | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Christianity, Christian Ghosts, New Testament, Apostle Paul, Historical Paul, Gospel of Paul, Christmas, Hamlet, Religion News

During this holiday season, let's remember that ghostly sources are valued for how they help others. Messages from other worlds that lose sight of this are not a worthy source for peace on earth and goodwill to men.

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Smithsonian Digs Out Alexander Graham Bell Recordings From 1880s (PHOTOS)

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: DC News, Alexander Graham Bell, Video, Smithsonian Institution, District of Columbia, Hamlet, Smithsonian, Alexander Graham Bell Recordings, Shakespeare, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Alexander Graham Bell foresaw many things, including that people could someday talk over a telephone. Yet the inventor certainly never c...

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Ralph Fiennes likes contradictions in Coriolanus

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Neil Jordan, Hamlet, Barry Ackroyd, Ralph Fiennes Interview, Judi Dench, David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part II, Marshall Fine Interview, London, Marshall Fine, Sir Laurence Olivier, Paul Scofield, Steven Spielberg, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Coriolanus, Henry V, William Shakespeare, Entertainment News

Ralph Fiennes heard his first Shakespeare as a child, initially on phonograph records, then in films. "I saw (Sir Laurence) Olivier's Henry V in a sm...

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CliffsNotes Films Takes On Shakespeare

Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Hamlet, Video, Macbeth, Shakespeare, Cliffsnotes, Books News

"CliffsNotes Films -- The Fastest Way to Learn," a collaboration among AOL, Mark Burnett, Coalition Films and Josh Faure-Brac, has launched with a ser...

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Movie Review: Anonymous

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.25.2011

Sprawling, bloody, romantic and witty, Roland Emmerich's Anonymous (opening Friday 10/28/11) captures the magic of the theater, even as it folds in th...

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Blood, Blood, Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

George Heymont | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Springfield Shakespeare Project, Hamlet Versus Zombies, Fido, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, Zombies, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Hamlet, Alison Whittaker, Shakespeare, Vital Signs, The Skinny Improv, Arts News

Hamlet vs. Zombies offers audiences 90 minutes of inspired lunacy. I suspect this show will have a great future touring the college circuit and getting guest bookings with regional Fringe and Shakespeare festivals.

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Literature's Most Attractive (And Repellent) Leading Men

Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Word & Film, Literature, Leading Men, Jane Eyre, Jane Austen, Books We Love, Hamlet, Twilight, War and Peace, Philip Roth, Persuasion, Video, Books News

By Christine Spines via Word & Film Stephenie Meyer’s decision to produce “Austenland” — a film about a woman so obsessed with the taciturn...

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Was Hamlet's Dad Gay?

Priscilla Frank | Posted 11.15.2011

We've all felt haunted by our sexuality at some point or another, but most of us don't decide to project these frustrations onto one of the great literary masterpieces of all time, while claiming to show "what's really going on."

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Humans And Chimpanzees: What's The Difference?

Shastri Purushotma | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Hamlet, Baha'i Faith, Baha'i, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Social Animal, Soul, Human Brain, Human Mind and Soul, What Is Soul, Abdul Baha, Baha'i Wisdom, Human Soul, Religion News

Although our understanding of neuroscience has progressed light years since the first "Planet of the Apes" movie, there is a premise of this film at which I'd like to throw a monkey wrench.

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Top 10 Most Disturbing Shakespeare Deaths

Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Goriest Shakespeare Deaths, Romeo and Juliet, Books News, King Lear, Worst Shakespeare Deaths, Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Death, Othello, Slidepollajax, Most Disturbing Shakespeare Deaths, Books News

He is known for penning some of the most beautiful romances in literary history but, when writing tragedies, Shakespeare's murderous imagination ran w...

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Need A Good Insult? Ask The Bard

Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Hamlet, Shakespearean Insults, William Shakespeare Insults, Macbeth, King Lear, Best Shakespeare Insults, Shakespeare Insults, William Shakespeare, Books News

William Shakespeare is considered by many to be the greatest English writer to ever have lived. He was, of course, a true master of words. But just as...

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Obama and Osama by William Shakespeare

James M. Lynch | Posted 07.20.2011

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Most people misunderstand Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. They see Hamlet as indecisive, melancholy and afraid to take action. They see...

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Run, Newt, Run!

Will Durst | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Lizard- Boy, Moses, Newt Gingrich, Hamlet, Barack Obama, Voldermort, Comedy News

Gingrich can't win and if he's half as smart as he thinks he is, he has to know that. So, why is he running? To what end? Increased face-time to sell more of his twenty plus books? Can't get enough of the sound of his own voice?

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What Drew A Shakespearean Master To A Flashy Blockbuster About Viking Mythology?

Newsweek | Chris LeeMay 01, 2011 | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Natalie Portman, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Hulk, Kenneth Branaugh, Hamlet, Batman Begins, Shakespeare, Henry V, The Mighty Thor, Christopher Nolan, Thor, Books News

You’d be forgiven for wondering what precisely is up with Kenneth Branagh directing Marvel Studios’ new superhero flick Thor, a flashy $150 millio...

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A Collection Of Shakespeare's Raunchiest Lines

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's Dirtiest Lines, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dirty Lines Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Books News

A couple of weeks back we reported that reading Shakespeare makes you smarter. But to counterbalance that thesis, we thought we’d also better point ...

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Shakespeare Speaks To Japan

Terry Kelhawk | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Natural Disasters, Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, Japan Tsunami, Disaster Preparedness, Death and Dying, Hamlet, American Red Cross, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Ring of Fire, Japan, Death, Japan Earthquake 2011, 2011 Japan Earthquake, Healthy Living News

In our society of high life-expectancy, death usually comes unseen behind the closed doors of nursing homes, or the curtains of a hospital room. We have gained, therefore, the luxury of deluding ourselves that we are here forever

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Literary Mixtape: What Was On Hamlet's iPod?

flavorwire.com | Emily Temple | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you've ever wondered what your favorite literary characters might be listening to while they save the world/contemplate existence/get into trouble,...

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HuffPost Interview: Director Kelly Asbury of Gnomeo and Juliet

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Why gnomes? Why not gnomes?, says Kelly Asbury? The result is a computer-animated comedy aimed at children and adults, using Shakespeare's romantic tragedy as the jumping-off point for a more family-friendly fairy tale.

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True Grit and the Truth about Revenge

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

The cultural moment where True Grit finds itself as one of America's most popular films is neither surprising nor necessarily of its own making.

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New Book Takes Aim at Ed Reformers and Status Quo Defenders

Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, School of One, Teacher Tenure, Hamlet, Rick Hess, New York Times, The Same Thing Over and Over, Education Reform, Teaching, Frederick Hess, Fred Hechinger, Albert Einstein, Education News

Author Rick Hess argues that we aren't willing to start from scratch in our thinking about what it means to be a teacher in the 21st Century.

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