In an upcoming episode of “Great Performances,” airing on Friday, November 17, 2023, at 9:00 Pm on PBS, viewers are in for an intriguing journey through the world of Shakespeare’s First Folio, commemorating its 400th anniversary. This historic First Folio played a pivotal role in preserving 18 of Shakespeare’s timeless plays, preventing them from slipping into oblivion.
The episode explores how New York’s Public Theater brings Shakespeare’s works to life, shedding light on the intricate process of presenting these iconic plays to contemporary audiences.
This episode invites viewers to delve into the remarkable legacy of William Shakespeare and the enduring impact of his writings. It offers a unique perspective on the importance of the First Folio in preserving literary treasures and the ongoing efforts to keep Shakespeare’s works vibrant and relevant.
Tune in on Friday at 9:00 Pm to witness this celebration of Shakespeare’s First Folio and...
The episode explores how New York’s Public Theater brings Shakespeare’s works to life, shedding light on the intricate process of presenting these iconic plays to contemporary audiences.
This episode invites viewers to delve into the remarkable legacy of William Shakespeare and the enduring impact of his writings. It offers a unique perspective on the importance of the First Folio in preserving literary treasures and the ongoing efforts to keep Shakespeare’s works vibrant and relevant.
Tune in on Friday at 9:00 Pm to witness this celebration of Shakespeare’s First Folio and...
- 11/10/2023
- by Jules Byrd
- TV Everyday
To say that Katherine McNamara is an aspiring actress would be the understatement of the year. As a regular on Disney Xd's Kickin It (TV), this bright, young talent has traversed through television, film, and yes...even Broadway. At the age of 13, she debuted as Fredrika Armfeldt in "A Little Night Music," starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury. She's starring in a new Disney Channel Movie of the Week titled Girl vs Monster which premiers on October 12th, and has landed the highly coveted role of Becky Thatcher in next year's film Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (2013). If that's not enough, she's also appearing in The Contest (also due out next year), which addresses the issue of bullying. It's a hot topic with Katherine, who reveals that she was once herself a victim of it's devistating effects. In addition to an already impressive list of acting credits, Katherine is a singer,...
- 10/1/2012
- by jmaurer@corp.popstar.com (Jennifer Maurer)
- PopStar
Roland Emmerich's new film, which suggests that William Shakespeare was a fraud, relies on the 90-year-old theories of J Thomas Looney. Do not be taken in
Roland Emmerich's new film Anonymous is keen on showing that Shakespeare was a fraud and Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, the true author of his plays. The film is part of a broader campaign to unseat Shakespeare, one that includes a documentary by First Folio Pictures (of which Emmerich is president), along with instructional guides Sony Pictures has been distributing to teachers in America declaring that Anonymous "presents a compelling portrait of Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's plays". When Emmerich agrees to make a promotional video (part lecture, part cartoon, it shows him tossing quills that topple a statue of Shakespeare), you get a sense of how committed those behind the film are to rewriting literary history.
Roland Emmerich's new film Anonymous is keen on showing that Shakespeare was a fraud and Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, the true author of his plays. The film is part of a broader campaign to unseat Shakespeare, one that includes a documentary by First Folio Pictures (of which Emmerich is president), along with instructional guides Sony Pictures has been distributing to teachers in America declaring that Anonymous "presents a compelling portrait of Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's plays". When Emmerich agrees to make a promotional video (part lecture, part cartoon, it shows him tossing quills that topple a statue of Shakespeare), you get a sense of how committed those behind the film are to rewriting literary history.
- 11/5/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Conspiracists ignore a crushing weight of documentary and in-text evidence that the Stratford master authored the plays
In 1593, an actor and theatre manager called William Shakespeare published his first book, a long narrative poem called Venus and Adonis. It is the verbal equivalent of a Titian painting, which recreates the world of mythology in richly human, erotic language. This love poem instantly became a Renaissance bestseller, though today it is far less famous than his plays. But there is something else significant about it. It is one of the many pieces of evidence that add up to an overwhelming sense, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Shakespeare, the actor born in Stratford in 1564, wrote Shakespeare's plays – a quiet proof that conspiracy theories about the authorship of these works, as peddled by the new film Anonymous, are nothing more than destructive absurdities.
The clue is in the date the poem appeared. Shakespeare had never published anything before.
In 1593, an actor and theatre manager called William Shakespeare published his first book, a long narrative poem called Venus and Adonis. It is the verbal equivalent of a Titian painting, which recreates the world of mythology in richly human, erotic language. This love poem instantly became a Renaissance bestseller, though today it is far less famous than his plays. But there is something else significant about it. It is one of the many pieces of evidence that add up to an overwhelming sense, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Shakespeare, the actor born in Stratford in 1564, wrote Shakespeare's plays – a quiet proof that conspiracy theories about the authorship of these works, as peddled by the new film Anonymous, are nothing more than destructive absurdities.
The clue is in the date the poem appeared. Shakespeare had never published anything before.
- 10/27/2011
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
The film Anonymous falls for ill-informed Victorian prating – sadly, many still find fantasy more compelling than mere truth
However much we may claim to be curious about hat really happened in history, it seems we often prefer our stories about the past to follow the pattern of fairytales. Shakespeare understood this very well. He gave his audiences Richard III, the hunchbacked wicked uncle, rightfully destroyed by the good avenging prince, for instance, rather than the complex politician of history, defeated and killed by an invading opportunist. History may provide good raw material for drama, but it will need a bit of underlying myth if it is really going to stay in the imagination.
To that extent, the film Anonymous – which offers a version of Elizabethan history obsessed with monarchy, parenthood and usurpation, in which the rightful heir to the English throne is wickedly kept from his inheritance – is only doing...
However much we may claim to be curious about hat really happened in history, it seems we often prefer our stories about the past to follow the pattern of fairytales. Shakespeare understood this very well. He gave his audiences Richard III, the hunchbacked wicked uncle, rightfully destroyed by the good avenging prince, for instance, rather than the complex politician of history, defeated and killed by an invading opportunist. History may provide good raw material for drama, but it will need a bit of underlying myth if it is really going to stay in the imagination.
To that extent, the film Anonymous – which offers a version of Elizabethan history obsessed with monarchy, parenthood and usurpation, in which the rightful heir to the English throne is wickedly kept from his inheritance – is only doing...
- 10/26/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
The Shakespeare authorship question is a debate that started over one hundred years ago surrounding the identity of the works traditionally attributed to the bearded Bard from Stratford-Upon-Avon, William Shakespeare. Was he really the genius behind Hamlet.s tragic life, Romeo.s burning love, and Lady Macbeth.s plaguing guilt? Could the intellectual behind literature.s most brilliant characters be this very ordinary man from Stratford?
So little is known about the man from Stratford that many find it impossible to believe that the son of an illiterate tradesman was the author of such literary masterpieces as .The Merchant of Venice,. .King Lear,. and .Henry V.. His education from a village school could never have provided Shakespeare with a vocabulary extensive enough to write the most talked about literature in the world and there is no proof that he travelled to foreign lands let alone learnt to speak their native tongues.
So little is known about the man from Stratford that many find it impossible to believe that the son of an illiterate tradesman was the author of such literary masterpieces as .The Merchant of Venice,. .King Lear,. and .Henry V.. His education from a village school could never have provided Shakespeare with a vocabulary extensive enough to write the most talked about literature in the world and there is no proof that he travelled to foreign lands let alone learnt to speak their native tongues.
- 10/19/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan visited the Oxford University to attend a lecture titled "Amitabh Bachchan: Emotion and the Star in Hindi Film" by Rachel Dwyer who is an expert on Indian cinema and culture at Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (Ochs). Bachchan was shown a specially prepared First Folio of William Shakespeare plays, which dated back to 1623 and the manuscript copy of the first English translation of Kalidas'' ''Shakuntala'' by William Jones, dated 1788. He also attended a formal dinner at the dining hall of Trinity College at Oxford. Oxford students were pleased to see Big B in their campus and he happily posed with them for pictures. "I am still reeling under the effect of the Oxford visit and have not been able come away from the keen interest that most British teaching institutions, have shown and continue to do so in the present, towards tradition," said the superstar on his blog.
- 5/19/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan visited the Oxford University to attend a lecture titled "Amitabh Bachchan: Emotion and the Star in Hindi Film" by Rachel Dwyer who is an expert on Indian cinema and culture at Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (Ochs). Bachchan was shown a specially prepared First Folio of William Shakespeare plays, which dated back to 1623 and the manuscript copy of the first English translation of Kalidas'' ''Shakuntala'' by William Jones, dated 1788. He also attended a formal dinner at the dining hall of Trinity College at Oxford. Oxford students were pleased to see Big B in their campus and he happily posed with them for pictures. "I am still reeling under the effect of the Oxford visit and have not been able come away from the keen interest that most British teaching institutions, have shown and continue to do so in the present, towards tradition," said the superstar on his blog.
- 5/19/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
"Death disports with writers more cruelly than with the rest of humankind," Cynthia Ozick wrote in a recent issue of The New Republic.
"The grave can hardly make more mute those who were voiceless when alive--dust to dust, muteness to muteness. But the silence that dogs the established writer's noisy obituary, with its boisterous shock and busy regret, is more profound than any other.
"Oblivion comes more cuttingly to the writer whose presence has been felt, argued over, championed, disparaged--the writer who is seen to be what Lionel Trilling calls a Figure. Lionel Trilling?
"Consider: who at this hour (apart from some professorial specialist currying his "field") is reading Mary McCarthy, James T. Farrell, John Berryman, Allan Bloom, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Edmund Wilson, Anne Sexton, Alice Adams, Robert Lowell, Grace Paley, Owen Barfield, Stanley Elkin, Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Leslie Fiedler, R.P. Blackmur, Paul Goodman, Susan Sontag,...
"The grave can hardly make more mute those who were voiceless when alive--dust to dust, muteness to muteness. But the silence that dogs the established writer's noisy obituary, with its boisterous shock and busy regret, is more profound than any other.
"Oblivion comes more cuttingly to the writer whose presence has been felt, argued over, championed, disparaged--the writer who is seen to be what Lionel Trilling calls a Figure. Lionel Trilling?
"Consider: who at this hour (apart from some professorial specialist currying his "field") is reading Mary McCarthy, James T. Farrell, John Berryman, Allan Bloom, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Edmund Wilson, Anne Sexton, Alice Adams, Robert Lowell, Grace Paley, Owen Barfield, Stanley Elkin, Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Leslie Fiedler, R.P. Blackmur, Paul Goodman, Susan Sontag,...
- 4/24/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Creators Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col with George Zotti at The Silver Snail
In this dark tale, the Bard’s most famous heroes embark upon a journey to discover a long-lost soul. Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, Falstaff, and Romeo search for a reclusive wizard who may have the ability to assist them in their battle against the evil forces led by the villains Richard III, Lady Macbeth and Iago. That reclusive wizard? William Shakespeare.
Any English majors reading that synopsis feel their heads exploding yet?
Those who survive this initial assailment on First Folio canon will want to check out Kill Shakespeare, the planned 12-issue comic book series from Idw Publishing co-created by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery. I sat down (okay, leaned against some short book shelves) with them last weekend at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. They were attending as part of Transmission X’s entourage (Kill...
In this dark tale, the Bard’s most famous heroes embark upon a journey to discover a long-lost soul. Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, Falstaff, and Romeo search for a reclusive wizard who may have the ability to assist them in their battle against the evil forces led by the villains Richard III, Lady Macbeth and Iago. That reclusive wizard? William Shakespeare.
Any English majors reading that synopsis feel their heads exploding yet?
Those who survive this initial assailment on First Folio canon will want to check out Kill Shakespeare, the planned 12-issue comic book series from Idw Publishing co-created by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery. I sat down (okay, leaned against some short book shelves) with them last weekend at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. They were attending as part of Transmission X’s entourage (Kill...
- 5/15/2010
- by Dork Shelf Team
- DorkShelf.com
CALIFORNIALa Jolla PlayhouseP.O. Box 12039La Jolla, CA 92039(858) 550-1070, fax (858) 550-1075information@ljp.orgwww.lajollaplayhouse.orgChristopher Ashley, artistic directorEquity Lort B contractNon-EquityCasting: Casts productions in-house and through independent casting directors by invitation only. Send pix and resumes to above address, attn: Casting. See website for more information. Internships availableSeason: June - September. Shows: "Surf Report" (June); "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" (September); "Ruined" (November); "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (July); "Notes From the Underground" (September)Marin Shakespeare CompanyP.O. Box 4053San Rafael, CA 94913(415) 499-4485, fax (415) 499-1492management@marinshakespeare.orgwww.marinshakespeare.orgRobert S. Currier, artistic director; Lesley Currier, managing directorEquity Loa referenced to Lort contractNon-EquityCasting: Casts productions in-house. Send pix and resumes to Robert Currier. Please see website for specific audition dates and information.Internships and/or apprenticeships available.Season: July - September. Shows: "Travesties" (July 2-Aug. 15); "The Taming of the Shrew" (July 16-Sep. 26); "Antony and Cleopatra" (Aug. 20-Sep. 25)Pcpa Theaterfest800 S.
- 2/25/2010
- backstage.com
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. -- Erasmus
One afternoon in Cape Town I sat in my little room at University House and took inventory. This must have been in June, winter in the southern hemisphere, and it had been raining steadily for most of a week. I was virtually alone in the student residence; the others had packed off for vacation. With an umbrella and plastic slicker I'd ventured out once or twice to the Pig and Whistle, where I favored the Ploughman's Lunch, but to sustain life I'd laid in a supply of tinned sardines, cheddar and swiss cheese, Hob Nobs, apples, Carr's Water Biscuits, ginger cookies, Hershey bars, biltong, sausage and a pot of jam. I had a little electric coil that would bring a cup of water to a boil, a jar of Nescafe,...
One afternoon in Cape Town I sat in my little room at University House and took inventory. This must have been in June, winter in the southern hemisphere, and it had been raining steadily for most of a week. I was virtually alone in the student residence; the others had packed off for vacation. With an umbrella and plastic slicker I'd ventured out once or twice to the Pig and Whistle, where I favored the Ploughman's Lunch, but to sustain life I'd laid in a supply of tinned sardines, cheddar and swiss cheese, Hob Nobs, apples, Carr's Water Biscuits, ginger cookies, Hershey bars, biltong, sausage and a pot of jam. I had a little electric coil that would bring a cup of water to a boil, a jar of Nescafe,...
- 10/12/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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