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herefore art thou Shakespeare?
festival, in second year, explores life and times of world’s greatest playwright
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BY KYLE WHITACRE
The Battalion
ane Austen made a splash
on the big screen this
decade when her novels
where made into movies, how
ever another writer hot on her
heels is the talk of The Globe,
William Shakespeare.
Four hundred years have
passed since Shakespeare last
put pen to paper, but his plays
have survived and flourished in
popular culture for this entire
time, remaining some of the
greatest works in the English lan
guage.
This week, the MSC Literary
Arts committee is holding the
Second Annual Shakespeare Fes
tival. The festival began last
night with a performance of ‘As
You Like It” by Pearland High
School. The festival will be held
all week, ending on Sunday.
Shakespeare’s plays have
been transformed and remade
for almost every entertainment
medium man has contrived in
the past four hundred years.
Even today, his plays are remade
for modern and younger audi
ences.
James Harner, editor of the
World Shakespeare Bibliography
and an English professor, said he
has found the movies to be a
great way to attract audiences.
“Shakespeare incorporates
brilliance, he entices and in
trigues each age and genera
tion,” Harner said. “There are so
many movies today, especially
movies for teenagers.”
This past year, for instance
Shakespeare in Love won seven
Oscars including Best Picture
and Best Original Screenplay.
10 Things I Hate About You,
which opened this past week
end, is a remake of Shake
speare’s “Taming of the Shrew.”
Ethan Hawke is starring in a
modern adaptation of “Hamlet”
due out this fall.
Two years ago Australian di
rector Baz Lurhmann remade
"Romeo and Juliet,” combining
popular MTV culture with flashy
, style and quick editing to create
a fast paced, youth oriented
adaptation of Shakespeare’s
play.
“I love the films,” Harner
said. “I think they are wonderful
pieces of works.lt is not neces
sarily Shakespeare, but there
have been much worse. I love it
[the movies], because it is bring
ing an energy to Shakespeare. He
has a breadth of appeal and he
intrigues and inspires.
Lurhraann’s Romeo and Juliet
was fantastic.”
Lurhmann’s film will be a top
ic of lecture Wednesday m 7 p.m.
The lecture will be given by Dr.
Douglas Brooks at room 107 Bio-
Chem.
Brooks said he will be dis
cussing modern adaptations of
Shakespeare’s plays.
“A lot of people hold Shake
speare very sacred, and there
fore, when something radical
comes out, people get very up
set,” Brooks said. “I think that’s
a ridiculous position to take.
Shakespeare was a populist play
wright who wrote for profes
sional stage he did not write for
stuffy, literary readers.
“If there had been MTV in Re
naissance England, Shakespeare
would have been a great director
of music videos.”
Dan Looker, a variety artist,
will be performing in the MSC
Flagroom today at 1 p.m. tonight
in Rumour’s Coffee House &
Deli in the MSC and songs from
various Shakespeare plays will
be performed by The Greenwood
Consort. The group will be per
forming songs as they would
have been played during Shake
speare’s lifetime.
The group includes Heidi Linder,
a soprano soloist, Bill Rogers on
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