CMU School of Drama


Friday, August 24, 2012

Stratford Shakespeare Festival, ‘Henry V’ and ‘Cymbeline’

NYTimes.com: One of the signal pleasures of attending the Stratford Shakespeare Festival here is the opportunity it affords to sample the breadth and depth of Shakespeare’s work in just a few days: a history play on Wednesday, a comedy on Thursday, a late romance on Friday. To survey Shakespeare’s plays in such proximity is sometimes to be reminded how unsatisfying — or at least how limiting — these traditional classifications can be.

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