Polonius is a role in Hamlet, a play that opened West End in 2015. As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, ...
A glance at the autumn issue of The American Scholar: Shakespeare’s Polonius -- the prototypical pundit? Catharine R. Stimpson, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University, ...
Recently, we had the chance to speak with Elliot Levey, who plays Polonius, the father of Ophelia and Laertes. We discussed how Shakespeare has been a part of his acting career since he first ...
Polonius, Lord Chamberlain to the bad king in Hamlet, advises his son, Laertes, headed for Paris, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be. For loan oft loses both itself and friend." Well, I've loaned ...
Today, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play that haunts itself. Its saturation into cultural consciousness means that watching a performance is inevitably a process of past ghosts and past echoes framing ...
Nathan Darrow as Hamlet and Hillary Clemens as Ophelia in the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival's 2017 production of 'Hamlet.' Presumably, everyone knows that "To be, or not to be" is a phrase ...
FOLLOWING the fashion in movies and books, Sir Laurence Olivier has acted and directed a Hamlet with a simplified Freudian interpretation. The mad Ophelia makes caressing motions over a phallic ...
Wesley Whitson and Christy Watkins in Bedlam's Hamlet at 4th Wall Theatre Co. Credit: Photo by Gabriella Nissen The world’s most famous play – some might say greatest play – receives a superlative ...
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