Putting a Still-Vexed Play in a Historical Context
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Shakespeare's most problematic play Â at least with respect to modern sensitivities Â receives an intelligent interpretation from Michael Radford and a superb cast.
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Let the past put current conditions in perspective.
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While Leo Tolstoyâs play remains an intriguing curiosity, more interesting than good, it should be a must-see for students of Russian literature.
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SOME of the earliest copies of Shakespeareâs plays are set to be put on the internet. The British Library is putting 93 high-resolution digitised copies of 21 of Shakespeare&#39;s plays online.
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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Shakespeare's Globe in London is helping scholars explore the issue of whether someone else wrote William Shakespeare's plays.
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Lest anyone think that a play with three ethnic slurs in its title is going to dance around the subject of race and the limits of tolerable discourse, be advised that the bombshells are hurled from its opening moments.
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A new play suggests John Amery rebelled against his father's concealment of his Jewishness
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Adapting Philip Glass' Barbarians opera for its U.S. debut requires overcoming significant technological limitations. By Theresa Everline.
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Historical fiction is a difficult genre to get right. Neglect research and facts at your peril, because someone is sure to accuse you of dilettantism.
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Deconstructing a pretty good joke, and the investment lesson held within.
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Brian Springerâs bizarre documentary âThe Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulityâ is, among many things, a treatise on how history is passed along.
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Patrick Marber's play, "Howard Katz," has been called the least coherent of his works. It's been labeled "risky" and "messy" and "difficult."
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Aidan Quinn completes the cast of the new history play by Richard Nelson, âConversations in Tusculum,â at the Public Theater. Mr. Quinn is to play Brutus alongside Brian Dennehy as Cicero, Joe Grifasi as Syrus, Gloria Reuben as Porcia, David Strathairn as Cassius and Maria Tucci as Servilia. Previews begin Feb. 19.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ  uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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When watching Jay Sternâs digital video adaptation of the 1622 play âThe Changeling,â you have to imagine a more detailed world beyond the bare-bones visuals.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play,  T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.