Michael Blanding’s new book goes beyond what “scholars have previously realized.” “At the very least it should be explored.”
ADAPTATION: A NEW ENGLAND “ROGUE SCHOLAR” SHAKES UP SHAKESPEARE
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KING JOHN IN SHINY GOLD CONVERSE AT THE BCA
It’s all about symbolism. And if you can get past the Shakespearean speech and structure, it works.
LOL ON TRAGEDY
A speedy taste of all things Shakespeare
NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO BE BELIEVED: CYMBELINE SPUTTERS ON THE BOSTON COMMON
★★☆☆☆
Confusing. Haphazard. Far-Fetched. Convoluted.
For centuries, such words have been used repeatedly to describe Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s rarely staged late tragicomedy ...
SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING NEW: SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET AT HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY
SEEDS OF MISTRUST IN A.R.T.’S OTHELLO
★★★★☆
Othello, William Shakespeare’s quintessential tale of race-baiting political treachery, has more connections to contemporary society than one might care to admit (or write down). As observed in the Oregon Shakespeare ...
LAND HO, SO-SO: TWELFTH NIGHT AND SHIPWRECKED! IN REP AT MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS
★★☆☆☆
If Duke Orsino in Shakespeare’s beloved comedy Twelfth Night has picked up his (sometimes misbegotten) ideas of love from hearing enchanting strains of music, Louis de ...
A MODERN VERSE MACBETH THIS WAY COMES
★★★☆☆
This new season at Actors’ Shakespeare Project—the first under artistic director Christopher V. Edwards, who took over from Allyn Burrows last year—is a welcome change of pace for the troupe that has of late been presenting, well, mostly Shakespeare.
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A BOY IN LIMBO, LOOKING FOR SHAKESPEARE: HAMNET AT ARTSEMERSON
★★★☆☆
Given the choice of to be or not to be, Hamnet Shakespeare can’t fathom why anyone would ever choose not to be. And being that he’s had over 400 years to think about it, I guess you could say the boy’s given the matter some thought.
Hamnet, only son ...
NAKED VILLAINY UNDER THE STARS: RICHARD III ON THE COMMON
★★★★☆
It’s been only five months since the last production of Richard III hit Boston, so I was relatively unenthused when Commonwealth Shakespeare Company announced it as their ...
