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    • … – which is most certainly not the same as a good literary translation. You need to make sure that the translation reflects your ultimate vision for the staging. If you want to stage Hamlet as a hip-hop, gangster-rap inspired gang-related drama you’re going to need a translation that enables you to do …

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    • … The adjective “bodice-ripper” is used much more widely than I thought, not just to refer to melodramatically sexy elements of non-romance fiction, but to non-fiction, and even to non-books, i.e. things like dance, art exhibits, and political imbroglios. I am merely pointing that out. 3. Point number 1 …

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    • … but Romanization has definitely endured (as in history). The magical elements of the story are connected to the Pagan Britain religion and Faerie lore. Avalon is protected by Faerie magic by having it hidden. It lies in another “realm” in between the human and Faerie. That being said, there is very little …

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    • … emotional relationship with his arch enemy Daredevil, Daredevil’s hatred of Bullseye. All of those elements were intellectually interesting, I suppose, but the bad writing overpowered them to a degree that I couldn’t enjoy reading. Please note that I said “enjoy reading,” not “enjoyed watching Daredevil …

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    • … to be somewhat ruthless, and yet respectful here. We are about to annex the Old Testament to a secular model. The document, as it stands now, is beyond salvage on its own terms. One advantage of our eonic approach is that we can partition world history into a series of meaningful blocks, and assess …

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    • … have restricted their interest only to literary texts, cultural critics of other fields have nevertheless identified utopian elements within their areas of study. In our case, the film Kingdom of Heaven, directed by Ridley Scott and released by Twentieth-Century Fox in 2005, has its source …

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    • … and for his ability to create dramatic poetry out of everyday speech. Among the dramatists of the last 50 years, Samuel Beckett is his only serious rival in terms of theatrical influence, and it is a measure of Pinter’s power that early on he spawned the adjective “Pinteresque”, suggesting a cryptically …

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    • Last week, Kelly McCullough committed ” writer heresy” over at Wyrdsmiths by suggesting that the individual words one uses while writing a story just aren’t that important. Bill Henry came back with the expected defense of words as a writer’s stock in trade: Or to use the terms in which this idea …

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    • … have been shared in every culture and in every land as a means of entertainment, education, preservation of culture and in order to instill moral values. Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot and characters, as well as the narrative point of view. Stories are frequently used …

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    • … rights. But it is for his plays that he will be best remembered and for his ability to create dramatic poetry out of everyday speech. Among the dramatists of the last century, Beckett is his only serious rival in terms of theatrical influence; and it is a measure of Pinter’s power that early …




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