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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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Does Shakespeare's Bleakest Play Work For Children?

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 12.26.2011

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"So great is the suffering depicted in Shakespeare's 'King Lear' that one has trouble finding the words to write about it," begins the Folger Shakespe...

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The Torture Of Playing King Lear

AP | By JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 10.11.2011

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NEW YORK -- On a "King Lear" day, the torture starts early in the morning for Greg Hicks. Even before the actor opens his eyes in his hotel room, the...

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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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Getting to Know Sir Derek Jacobi -- an Interview With BAM's King Lear

Lily Bevan | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: King Lear, Donmar Warehouse, Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Theater, Shakespeare, Sir Derek Jacobi, Actors, New York Theater, London Theater, Bam, Film Acting, Laurence Olivier, Theater Acting, Arts News

All the rhythm is artificially created in a film -- in the theatre when the curtain goes up you are your own man, and it's terrifying -- there's no safety net.

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A Slice of Keach: Stage, Screen and Sparring

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stockard Channing, Network, Lights Out, Other Desert Cities, King Lear, Fx, American Greed, New York City, Stacy Keach, Theatre, Trainer, Mike Hammer, Boxing, Shakespeare, Pixar, Entertainment News

Stacy Keach, who received acclaim with his breakthrough role as a boxer in John Huston's Fat City, returns to television on the new acclaimed F/X show Lights Out.

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Brush up Your Shakespeare! (VIDEOS)

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shakespeare's plays have been the stuff of inspiration for playwrights, composers, and film directors. Here are a few of the best and worst attempts to re-imagine the Bard.

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How to Enjoy Reading Shakespeare

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shakespeare, Al Pacino, William Shakespeare, Chaucer, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Othello, Richard III, College 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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First Nighter: Young Women Behave Badly in Bachelorette and So Does Bachelorette

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yasmina Reza, Isaac Newton, Andromache Chalfant, Tracee Chimo, Trip Cullman, That Face, Bachelorette, Emily Rebholz, Second Stage Uptown, Manhattan Theatre Club, Elisabeth Waterston, Chloe Moss, Little Doc, Leslye Headland, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Carmen H. Herlihy, Royal Court, God of Carnage, Sam Waterston, Fran Kranz, Dan Klores, Polly Stenham, This Wide Night, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Kleinfeld Bridal, James Waterston, Patti LuPone, Katherine Waterston, King Lear, Entertainment News

Now at Second Stage Uptown we're given 29-year-old Leslye Headland's Bachelorette, which takes place in a hotel room the night before a wedding.

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Pranks Gone Too Far in Shakespeare and South Hadley

Ken Adelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twelfth Night, Shakespeare, King Lear, Phoebe Prince, Cyberbullying, Bullying, Malvolio, Politics News

The bullying and abuse the Bard portrays in the torment of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was done by nine teenagers in South Hadley, Mass. against high school freshman Phoebe Prince.

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ReelzChannel: Top 10 Shook-Up Shakespeare Movies

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

William Shakespeare, now there was a guy who could put pen to paper. So powerful was his Romeo and Juliet that the heartbroken of today still write to...

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King Lear Speaks Out on Health Care

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Morality, King Lear, Shakespeare, Health Care, Harold Bloom, Impact News

Those in high places don't care enough about -- or are oblivious to -- the serious hardships afflicting the poor and, increasingly, the middle class. Our current health care crisis provides an obvious example.

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Christopher Plummer, Mum, And Me

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Shakespeare, New Radicals, Christopher Plummer, King Lear, Julia Moulden, Healthy Living News

"Christopher is doing King Lear at Stratford, and I'd like us to go." That's how Mum put it when she canvassed her children for our interest in joinin...

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Al Pacino To Star In "King Lear"

Variety | Posted 05.25.2011

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Al Pacino will play the title role in "King Lear," an adaptation of the Shakespeare play that will be directed by Michael Radford. Radford, who wrote...

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Ian McKellen's "King Lear" Full Frontal Cut From TV Version

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Ian McKellen said he's fine that the full-frontal nude scene he played on stage as King Lear is missing from an upcomin...

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What Parents Don't Realize About Their Wills

Jordan M. Atin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: King Lear, Inheritance, Family Stress, Heiress, Estate Planning, Wills, Estate Tax, Family Feuds, Business News

Anticipating how their children will feel when they read those last words in the will is crucial if parents want to leave the most important legacy for their children -- family peace.

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Kevin Kline: A Year Of Theatrical Triumph

New York Times | Charles Isherwood | Posted 05.25.2011

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The year just past was a notable one in the career -- and surely also the life -- of Kevin Kline. Notably busy, and at times disappointing. But ultima...

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