New Delhi: When I was watching 'Ishaqzaade', the first thing that crossed my mind was 'Oh God, not another Romeo-Juliet story!' Why is it that centuries later Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet still sounds alluring to film-makers? Romeo and Juliet in a nutshell is the story of two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families - the Montagues and Capulets. Elements of the tragedy can be found throughout...
05:19 PM, May 16, 2012
Bangkok: A Thai film, based on a well known Shakespeare's play, has been banned by censors on the grounds that its content may cause disunity among the people. 'Shakespeare Tong Tai' (Shakespeare Must Die) directed by Ing K and Manit Sriwanichpoom is reportedly the first Thai rendition of Macbeth, a bloodstained tragedy in which a Scottish general, with the help of his insidious wife, assassinates a king to pave his...
06:42 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: When it comes to quoting from literary masterpieces in budget speeches, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday made a quantum leap to quote the great modern-era playwright Shakespeare, after invoking words of ancient Indian economist Kautilya at least thrice in the past. "I must be cruel only to be kind," Mukherjee quoted Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, from Shakespeare's famous play, while talking about tough policy decisions he needs...
03:07 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Berlin: At a time when revolution is once again in the air around the world, Ralph Fiennes delivers a ferocious reminder of the perils in store when a warrior becomes the head of state. He directs and stars in 'Coriolanus' as William Shakespeare's Rambo, an invincible soldier who survives odds so overwhelming that he comes to believe that he alone merits the title Consul of Rome. Set in current times...
11:42 AM, Jan 20, 2012
London: British playwright Tom Stoppard has teamed up with Disney studio bosses to adapt his Oscar-winning 1998 romantic comedy 'Shakespeare in Love' script into a play. Stoppard, who shared the best screenplay Oscar award with Marc Norman for 'Shakespeare In Love', will revamp the screenplay for the stage, reports Variety magazine. No dates and casting details have been announced. ...
01:48 PM, Oct 23, 2011
London: William Shakespeare's final stage masterpiece, The Tempest, was intended as a musical, according to a leading theatre director. The Tempest -- first performed in November 1611 " is sprinkled with so many songs and melodic phrases that it clear that the playwright intended it to be read to music, Jonathan Holmes, the artistic director of Jericho House, has claimed. He also said Shakespeare should have shared credit for the...
12:38 PM, Aug 22, 2011
London: An Oxford academic has found a 'tantalising' link between Shakespeare's tragic heroine Ophelia and a real-life girl who died at the age of two in 1569, when the Bard would have been around five years old. Admitting his discovery could be pure coincidence, Steven Gunn of the university's Faculty of History said he had unearthed records of the death of a Jane Shaxspere some 20 miles from Stratford-Upon-Avon, where...
10:49 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Edinburgh: The EIF, running from Aug. 12 to Sept. 4, combines with the Fringe and the city's International Book Festival and military tattoo to offer the world's biggest annual extravaganza of the arts. Mills unveiled the EIF programme on Wednesday in what he called "an attempt to make very mainstream the ideas of Asian culture and the ideas of Asia's influence on Europe and Europe's influence on Asia -- it's...
11:40 AM, Mar 24, 2011
These three heroines of Eleanor Brown's debut novel, "The Weird Sisters," grew up in a house dominated by their professor father, who specializes in Shakespeare studies, named his girls for Shakespearean heroines and communicates -- sometimes hilariously, often cryptically -- through Shakespeare quotations. Written in a mix of collective voice "we" and third-person narrative, the book focuses on the sisters as they return to their rural hometown, drawn by their...
05:58 PM, Mar 17, 2011
London: Productions of Shakespeare in Maori and Mandarin will form part of a theatre extravaganza in London to celebrate the Olympic Games in 2012. Starting on April 23 next year, Shakespeare's Globe theatre will stage all the Bard's 38 plays, each performed by a different theatre company, in a different language. "It has long been recognised that Shakespeare, as well as a great playwright, has become an international language," said...
05:04 PM, Jan 22, 2011
London: 'Double Falsehood', a Shakespearean play, reportedly lost after it was last played in 1793, is to be staged again. The play will be held by the Mokitagrit Theatre company in London. Although the play is far from being a household name, director Phil Wilmott said there is something for everyone. "There's lots of action, cliffhangers, romance, betrayal, friendship, rape and revenge an action-packed story which everyone will enjoy," he...
11:14 AM, Jan 14, 2011
London: Two iconic works -- one billed as the most expensive book in the world and the other the most important book in all of English Literature -- will go under the hammer at a Sotheby's auction here on December 7. The sale of 'Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings' takes one on a journey of printed books from a rare example by England's first printer, William Caxton, through indisputably the...
02:47 PM, Oct 20, 2010
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03:39 PM, Nov 03, 2009
Ahmedabad: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni insists playing in front of a sell-out crowd will inspire his side when they face Australia in the World Cup quarter-finals on Thursday. The Sardar Patel Stadium has a capacity of over 48,000 and there will be few spare seats to be had when co-hosts India play the defending champions. Dhoni is well used to shouldering the burden of the hopes of billions of...
03:00 PM, Jan 06, 2008
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