"I talk the way Shakespeare wrote, that's how I look at it, and if they can't get Shakespeare and his accent right then heaven help us, " he said.
From my excellent drama-school teacher in London in 1970, I learned two things about speaking Shakespeare that I still practice.
Hamlet's one, I think I'd have been a marvellous Hamlet but, I never, I never got to that, in fact I didn't get much Shakespeare because I was, got so busy with films during the war and there just wasn't time.
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And as I reflected on this, I thought of Shakespeare, one of the most accurate and insightful people of all time in terms of understanding the human condition.
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Playing Leontes, I discovered that if I could fully trust Shakespeare, the text was liberating, not intimidating.
The first Shakespeare play I directed at Stratford was Henry VIII, so it's rather wonderful to be coming back to that same material but with an entirely modern take on it.
Mr. STEPHEN LIAS (Texas Shakespeare Festival): If you're going to do a gimmick getting an audience that appreciates a certain popular group's style to come to see Shakespeare, I think it's a clever idea, even if it is a gimmick.
I'm also, you know, a Shakespeare fan, so the language I'm very comfortable with.
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"I already belonged to Southend Shakespeare Company Theatre at the time, " she said.
We put on several Shakespeare plays back when I was a thespian in high school.
After earning my PhD. in literature and rhetoric, I spent a number of years teaching Shakespeare and Public Speaking at the University of Virginia, Lehigh University, and Princeton University.
James I, the Scotsman who reigned while Shakespeare wrote many of his masterpieces, including "Macbeth, " is portrayed in the Lyte Jewel, an enameled gold locket bearing on its cover (reversed at left) the royal monogram IR, for the Latin Jacobus Rex.
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Both are digital systems, in which words or base pairs are recombined to make an infinite possibility of messages. (Elsewhere I once noted the numerical similarity between Shakespeare's vocabulary of about 20, 000 distinct words and his genome of about 21, 000 genes).
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More than anyone else, he has helped me understand that I have as much right to be performing Shakespeare as any British-born actor, and that his work belongs to us all.
"There is an expressiveness, an extraordinary elasticity of expression in Shakespeare which is thrilling to me and I hope other people find it thrilling, " he says.
"I reminded Frank that while Laurence Olivier had performed Shakespeare in his 20s, the readings he did when he was in his 60s gave them new meaning, " Ramone wrote.
So, alongside everything else you have learned and experienced here at the United States Military Academy, the calculus and Shakespeare, the intramurals and leadership training, I ask you to remember that family has always been a centerpiece of our American story.
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The unexpected at all times, and I'm sure that applies to politics as well as it does to Shakespeare.
"Shakespeare is known as the first playwright with deep, distinctive characterisation and I believe he developed this because of his relationships with the company's principal actors, " says Dr van Es.
"One of the things I think he carried over to his art is what initially drew him to writers like Joyce and Shakespeare: a deep interest and concern for the human condition and of human nature, " Mr. Chuang says.
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On one of my final days in England, I made my way on blistered foot to the south bank of the Thames, past the site of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, to the place where my grandparents had made their balloon trip.
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