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'Comedy of Errors' seen through prism of wartime Britain
Tribune criticWilliam Shakespeare suffered no aversion to the device known as a play-within-a-play. He employed it himself. In "Hamlet," a subplay called "The Murder of Gonzago" is amended by the title character for his own uses. In "A Midsummer Night's Dream,"...Tags: Music, Movies, Theater, Cinema Industry, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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Charlotte, Oscar & Co.
Where better for a writer to turn for inspiration than to reality? This is especially true of the mystery fiction micro-trend in which authors fashion real-life figures into detectives. It's tricky territory because the margin of error is so tiny. For...Tags: Police, Crimes, Mysteries, Murder, Jack London
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What you ought to be reading
I had heard so many good things about Michael Gruber's literary thriller "The Book of Air and Shadows" (2007), recently released in paperback by Harper, that naturally, contrarian that I am, I vowed never to read it. Silly me. This is a wonderful book,...Tags: Religious Leaders, Henry James, Steven Spielberg
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Germaine Greer's biases and guesswork keep 'Shakespeare's Wife' a mysterious figure
Special to The Morning Call''Shakespeare's Wife'' by Germaine Greer (Harper, $26.95, 406 pp.) Shakespeare's life story is full of holes, and his wife has fallen into one of them. We know that William Shakespeare and Ann Hathaway were married in 1582, and that she stayed behind...Tags: Culture, Medical Research, Society, Stratford, Germaine Greer
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Sexual humiliation is the best revenge
linda.winer@newsday.comIt was a deliciously counterintuitive idea. Cast Laura Linney, that unimpeachable beacon of honest acting, as a high-styled libertine, a bored 18th century French aristocrat who plots the sexual ruination of innocents for sport and revenge. And team...Tags: Celebrity, Crimes, Music Theater, Sexual Assault, Theater
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Patinken set for Off B'way 'Tempest'
Broadway and TV star Mandy Patinkin goes off-Broadway next season, starring as Prospero in a revival of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" for Classic Stage Company. CSC artistic director, Brian Kulick, will direct. The production opens Sept. 18 at the...Tags: Television, Theater, Music Theater, Mandy Patinkin
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Life filled with Shakespeare? Stewart makes it so
The Associated PressOne recent Monday at 8:30 p.m., Patrick Stewart found himself with nothing to do. He didn't have to go to work -- his play Macbeth was closed for the night. And Stewart, who has earned raves playing the doomed Scottish king, had not made any other plans....Tags: Music Theater, Movies, Theater, Fiction, Broadway
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CAST CALLS
HOFSTRA ENTERTAINMENT auditions for the musical "1776," 10 a.m. tomorrow, Emily Lowe Hall, Hofstra University, Hempstead Turnpike, Hempstead, prepare up-tempo or ballad show tune, bring photo, resumé, e-mail culrts@hofstra.edu; also casting Ken Ludwig's...Tags: Theater, Media, Music, Music Theater, Music Industry
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On this day in history
On April 23, 1564, William Shakespeare is believed to have been born; he died 52 years later—on April 23. In 1858 physicist Max Planck, who developed the quantum theory, was born in Kiel, Germany. In 1954 Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the...Tags: Health Treatments, Economic Sanctions, Therapies, Foreign Aid, New York
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
1564: Believed to be the birthdate of William Shakespeare; he died at 52, also on April 23. 1985: Coca-Cola Company changed the secret flavor formula for Coke, prompting public outcry.Tags: Coca-Cola Company
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