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Here are three romantic comedies that are adaptations of Shakespeare plays. 1. She’s The Man She’s The Man starring Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum is a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night. After the girls’ soccer team at her high school is cut, Viola (Bynes) and the other players ask to join the boys’ team. They are …
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One of the standout characters in Netflix’s ‘Griselda’ is Rivi Ayala, played by Martín Rodríguez, who finds difficult characters the most interesting. Source: Getty Images To be the kind of woman who rises to the top of the Miami drug trade in the 1970s, you’d have to have a smart and suspicious head on your …
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Getty Image Today’s Republicans are first amendment absolutists, which is why they’re the ones banning (and burning!) books. Ron DeSantis’ Florida has been the most aggressive, fighting a “war on woke” so extreme that students are about to receive whitewashed lessons about American slavery. If they wanted to read Romeo and Juliet, they’re out of …
We were told by our literature professors … For drama you go to the British ,Shakespeare is universally acclaimed . For Novels to Tolstoy , Dostoevsky,and Russian literature . For poetry to Persia , RUMI , Hafiz , Attar , Firdausi . It seems Turkish drama / film has overtaken the world it is reigning …
We all know the late, great Robin Williams was a comic genius. Many people also know that he was classically trained in theater. In a recently unearthed clip from 1991, Williams combines those two talents, leaving people splitting at the seams even decades later. Williams was a guest on “The Tonight Show” starring Johnny Carson, …
You don’t have to be a William Shakespeare scholar to recognize his famous phrases such as “star-crossed lovers” or “much ado about nothing.” But did you also know that the renowned poet is also behind some of the most common terms we use every day? Watch the video about how colloquial terms such as “love …
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Per Grammarly, some of the modern words attributed to Shakespeare have been discovered to precede him, but there are still many words in his lexicon that English speakers regularly use today. A few of those words include bandit, critic, dauntless, elbow (as a verb), green-eyed (for jealousy), lonely, eventful, obscene, radiance, reliance, courtship, laughable, lapse, …
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It’s impossible to talk about Shakespeare films without mentioning a Kenneth Branagh classic, and we found it only fitting to start with one that also features Denzel. In this adaptation of the comedy (it’s true, Shakespeare is not always dark and serious), Kenneth stars as the eternal bachelor Benedick who falls for “spinster” Beatrice, played …
