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Theater Review (NYC): Cymbeline
Cymbeline is one of those seldom-produced Shakespeare plays we English majors read in college but rarely get the opportunity to see.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Julius Caesar, under Threatening Clouds in Queens
"A very pleasing night to honest men and women."
Read More »DVD Review: Richard III
One of the best film adaptations of a Shakespeare production I've ever seen.
Read More »Theatre Review (London): Hamlet at the Brockley Jack
The Bard's words live in slightly rough and ready form, much like they were originally performed.
Read More »Book Review: The Art of the Sonnet by Stephen Burt and David Mikics
A collection - culled from the Renaissance to contemporary times - of one hundred sonnets, along with their meanings.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: Hamlet (1996)
Well worth adding to the either the movie or book shelf.
Read More »Theater Review (MA): The Last Goodbye at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
Jeff Buckley's Romeo and Juliet: My kingdom for a kiss upon the shoulder.
Read More »Theatre Review (Buffalo, New York): I Am Hamlet at The Subversive Theatre Collective
Unconventional Hamlet is entertaining and weird.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Macbeth – Something Nervous This Way Comes
A Macbeth that suffers from too much exposure.
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