Little by Little
A Little is Enough
Thursday, August 16, 2007
I, Hamlet
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The BBC in the 1970's made the decision to tape performances of all of Shakespeare's plays, and when they came to Hamlet (first broa...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Roundhouse
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The other "greatest" Hamlet of the last half of the twentieth century was, according to some critics, Nicol Williamson's. It b...
No John-a-dreams, this
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In 1964, just as he was about to reach the heights of gossip notoriety, Richard Burton starred as Hamlet on Broadway, in a production direct...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Some Sweet--and Some Sour--Princes
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In honor of a film that's finally appearing on DVD this Tuesday, I decided to go over--here--a few versions of Shakespeare's Hamlet ...
"The Speech of the People"
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When James Joyce created for Ulysses his modern analogues to Homer's Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus, he intended them to be, if not...
Some Old British TV Show
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To break up the monotony of my critical acumen on display ("Hey, Doc--can you use the word 'technique' just one more time?...
Friday, August 10, 2007
"U.S.A." 2
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One of the central ideas of modernism is the fractured nature of modern life, the loss of an organic unity both in reality and in art. ...
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