Gwynne Evans, Renaissance lit scholar, at 93
G. (Gwynne) Blakemore Evans, Cabot Professor of English Literature Emeritus at Harvard University and this country’s most distinguished editor of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, died on Dec. 23, 2005,...
View ArticleGhostly Shakespearean fragment comes to life on stage
Allen Ginsberg used “deep gossip” to describe the way artists talk among themselves. He memorialized the phrase in his elegiac poem on poet Frank O’Hara. The same words nicely describe the deep talk...
View Article‘The Donkey Show’ kicks off a first season for Diane Paulus
In 1613, London’s Globe Theatre — a venue open to royal and peasant alike — burned to the ground. No one was hurt. When one man’s pants spouted flames, they were quickly doused with a mug of ale. As a...
View ArticleShakespeare and Modern Culture
Timeless Shakespeare is actually timely, says Marjorie Garber, a well-known professor who directs the Carpenter Center, in this penetrating text devoted to 10 of the Bard’s foremost plays and the ways...
View ArticleAn explosion of creativity
Diane Paulus sat perched on the back of a chair in a basement rehearsal space in Harvard Square on a recent afternoon, watching the scene play out before her like an entranced cat observing a mouse....
View ArticleGwynne Blakemore Evans
Gwynne Blakemore Evans, the Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and the foremost Shakespearean textual scholar of his day, was born in Columbus, Ohio, on March 31, 1912. The son...
View ArticleObama honors Robert Brustein
The American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) founding director Robert Brustein was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama at a ceremony in the White House on March 2. The National...
View ArticleTheater’s new frontiers
John Tiffany has ripped a page from the Diane Paulus playbook. Much like the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) artistic director, the Englishman is expanding the boundaries of theater, even taking...
View ArticleWhy and how
When Marjorie Garber chaired the National Book Award committee for nonfiction in 2010, she had 500 books to read and a myriad of questions. Garber, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and of...
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The one, indispensable book
We asked some authors featured in Harvard Bound over the past year: What is an essential, must-read book for today’s graduates, and why? Here’s what they suggested, as the newest Harvard degree-holders...
View ArticleEnduring inspiration
It is the morning of the Battle of Agincourt, Oct. 25, 1415. King Henry V of England has spent the night visiting his soldiers, many of whom believe they will soon die at the hands of the French. When...
View ArticleHe wrote the book of love
Love is hard, and Edison Miyawaki knows it. He wrote the book on it. The insomniac neurologist, who practices at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaches at Harvard Medical School, stayed awake many...
View ArticleLunch with Tiffany
It might seem strange that someone as cheery as John Tiffany is directing a play as fraught with despair as “The Glass Menagerie.” But for the sanguine director, the world is full of risks that don’t...
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Words to remember
Everyone knows about the Gettysburg Address, which turns 150 years old this month. They know it was President Abraham Lincoln’s signature speech, delivered at the site of the signature battle of the...
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Classroom magic
This fall Diane Paulus ’88 was back in a class stirring up a little magic. The artistic director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), whose circus-inspired revival of the musical “Pippin”...
View ArticleGwynne Evans, Renaissance lit scholar, at 93
G. (Gwynne) Blakemore Evans, Cabot Professor of English Literature Emeritus at Harvard University and this country’s most distinguished editor of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, died on Dec. 23, 2005,...
View ArticleGhostly Shakespearean fragment comes to life on stage
Allen Ginsberg used “deep gossip” to describe the way artists talk among themselves. He memorialized the phrase in his elegiac poem on poet Frank O’Hara. The same words nicely describe the deep talk...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘The Donkey Show’ kicks off a first season for Diane Paulus
In 1613, London’s Globe Theatre — a venue open to royal and peasant alike — burned to the ground. No one was hurt. When one man’s pants spouted flames, they were quickly doused with a mug of ale. As a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Timeless Shakespeare is actually timely, says Marjorie Garber, a well-known professor who directs the Carpenter Center, in this penetrating text devoted to 10 of the Bard’s foremost plays and the ways...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An explosion of creativity
Diane Paulus sat perched on the back of a chair in a basement rehearsal space in Harvard Square on a recent afternoon, watching the scene play out before her like an entranced cat observing a mouse....
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