Blogs about: Shakespeare And The Stratford Festival
What P. G. Wodehouse learned from Macbeth
emsworth wrote 1 month ago: Reading P. G. Wodehouse would be a joy even if his stories didn’t have more poetic allusions t … more →
Macbeth at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival
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emsworth wrote 1 month ago: Timothy D. Stickney playing Banquo as a twentieth-century European general in Africa Macbeth deals w … more →
We rank our ten favorite Shakespeare plays
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emsworth wrote 1 month ago: Macbeth may not be one of our favorite Shakespeare plays, but this portrait of Ellen Terry playing L … more →
Jean Racine's Phèdre at the Stratford Festival
emsworth wrote 2 months ago: Before we saw Jean Racine’s Phèdre at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival a couple of weeks ago … more →
Chekhov's The Three Sisters at the Stratford Festival
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emsworth wrote 2 months ago: Irina (Dalal Badr), Olga (Irene Poole), and Masha (Lucy Peacock) We’ve seen Kelli Fox in The T … more →
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (at the Stratford Festival)
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emsworth wrote 4 months ago: We thought West Side Story was remarkably good (see the Emsworth review), but it turned out that the … more →
A pox on Shakespeare in "translation"
emsworth wrote 4 months ago: Perhaps high schoolers should simply be issued Little Golden Book editions of Romeo and Juliet The l … more →
Bartholomew Fair at the Stratford Festival
emsworth wrote 4 months ago: Cliff Saunders as Leatherhead, the peddler and puppeteer Bartholomew Fair deserved a fair shot. And … more →
Julius Caesar at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (a review)
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emsworth wrote 4 months ago: The historical Julius Caesar Julius Caesar is close to the top of the list of our favorite Shakespea … more →
Lessons in quarrelling well from Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde
emsworth wrote 4 months ago: We were brushing up on Julius Caesar ahead of seeing the play at the Stratford Festival (Stratford, … more →
The Importance of Being Earnest at the Stratford Festival (a review)
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emsworth wrote 6 months ago: The evening we were in Stratford, Ontario to see The Importance of Being Earnest, the audience laugh … more →
West Side Story at the Stratford Festival (a review)
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emsworth wrote 6 months ago: This year's version of the star-cross'd lovers at the Stratford Festival The Stratford Festi … more →
What P. G. Wodehouse owes to Oscar Wilde
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emsworth wrote 7 months ago: Wilde Seeing The Importance of Being Earnest at the Shaw Festival in 2004 persuaded us that P. G. Wo … more →
Bill Bryson on Shakespeare (and the authorship question)
emsworth wrote 7 months ago: Shakespeare biographies are something of a pet peeve of ours, since so few hard facts about the life … more →
Christopher Plummer writes In Spite of Myself
emsworth wrote 10 months ago: Literature it’s not, but what a read! Christopher Plummer has written a memoir of his life on … more →
King Lear (and Cordelia) on canvas
emsworth wrote 10 months ago: In an earlier, generously illustrated post, we noted how artists have liked to paint scenes from Ham … more →
The Tempest at the Classic Stage Company (NYC) -- a review
emsworth wrote 1 year ago: A business trip to New York City this week gave Emsworth a chance to see Mandy Patinkin in a product … more →
The Music Man at the Stratford Festival
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emsworth wrote 1 year ago: I love The Music Man. It has everything a musical should have — traveling salesmen, a con man … more →
Who wrote Hamlet? Not up for discussion at the Stratford Festival
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emsworth wrote 1 year ago: Edward de Vere Nibbling on our breakfast scone at a B & B in Stratford, Ontario last weekend, we … more →
