Post and Courier

Review: Shakespeare's 'Pericles,' a play more Greek than Elizabethan, fails to charm

"Pericles" is one of the Bard's late Jacobean comedies. It’s also one of the plays considered to be co-authored by Shakespeare, and therefore not entirely original. The play does feel less like a ...
The Washington Post

Shakespeare's Greek Chorus

NEW YORK -- Michael Kahn was facing his accustomed audience, a roomful of actors, though what he had to talk to them about was anything but customary. Normally, on this first day of rehearsal he'd ...
The Guardian

Why did Shakespeare make Julius Caesar's last words the Latin 'Et tu, Brute?' when Suetonius tells us they were the Greek 'Kai su, teknon?' (You too, my son?)? Plutarch, on the ...

THE answer is simple. The ancient historians such as Suetonius and Plutarch were as much in the entertainment business as the great playwright. Phrases like Suetonius's 'Kai su, teknon' and Plutarch's ...
Times Colonist

From Greek tragedy to Shakespeare and pulp novels: Spoleto USA unveils 2013 season

This undated photo provided by the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C., shows the Red Stick Ramblers. On Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, the festival announced its lineup for the upcoming 2013 season. (AP ...
WXYZ

Shakespeare outside at Cranbrook's Greek Theatre

The popular Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream opens tonight (Friday June 3). It's outside at St. Dunstan's Greek Theatre on the Cranbrook campus in ...