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Category Archive for 'Bard bio'

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Directed by John Madden
Starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, and Ben Affleck
Bard-love received an unexpected shot-in-the-arm with the release of this buoyant Best Picture winner from 1998, a revisionist romantic comedy that imagines the “making-of” Romeo Juliet. The smart script by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard smoothly [...]

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(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004) reviewed by Debra Murphy
A funny thing happened between the time I graduated from the University of Illinois in 1976, when I first heard the word “Semiotics” (but hadn’t a clue what it meant), and the early nineties, when I began researching Shakespeare lit [...]

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