and then later David Tennant's Hamlet used it as Yorick.  Such art.

Because I'm too lazy to put all the links together again on LJ, here's it on my tumblr.

Srsly, they're doing Richard III AND Twelfth Night for their winter season.  Those are like my two favorites.  D=

"[...] the nature of the language tells us about the nature of the character, or maybe we should say the language is the character."
- from Playing Shakespeare.

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Awesome photo, from 1879 no less.

...I am totally working on what I'm supposed to be working on, really.

Precisely at this moment--when the character is forced to see a discrepancy between what he " wills " and what "is"--the possibility that he is mad confronts him.
- Joan Hartwig, "Feste's 'whirligig' and the comic providence of Twelfth Night"

Charles Lamb on the character of Malvolio (c. 1823?). 
  He's sold me on this interpretation.  Not that it was a hard sell (it should surprise no one that I was already severely leaning this way).

A quote from Nilo Cruz, Cuban-American playwright, whose work Night Train to Bolina I enthusiastically commend to The Internet:
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While a fitting image on which to close the sprawling angst and moral ambiguity that is Ch 10 has yet to be found, I find instead my audition piece for next year's Shakespeare Festival!

It took numerous bouts searching, pacing, reading, and debates with the stopwatch app over the past 8 months, but at last I've settled it. Richard III, I.1.

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Evidently Elijah Wood alleges in an interview that Hobbit trailer will likely appear before Tintin in US theatres in late December. If that’s the case, I swear I will pay some of my non-existent money to see the film just for that ( Read more... )