Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cast that makes the production. Benedick (Mike Efron) transforms himself convincingly from the cynical bachelor to lovesick schoolboy. He is at ease with the verse and knows how to communicate the jokes buried in the Elizabethan English to the audience without awkwardness. But he also recognizes the serious aspect of the play, resisting the temptation to eke a laugh out of every line...
...posthumous man unravels his tale, he twists and turns around an extraordinary tangle of ideas: the nature of artifice, the Darwinian crisis of faith, the courtship of History and Romance. Invoking his ancestor Sir Walter Raleigh, and setting much of the action in the New Elizabethan Age of the 1950s, he fashions a narrative as fiendishly witty and sinuous and fluent as an Elizabethan sonnet. But at its heart is a simple, all but unanswerable question: "What is the difference between belief and make-belief?" Some readers may be exhausted by the pinwheeling frenzy of paradoxes and parallels; others, though...
...Signet also enjoys a longstanding relationship with Yale University's Elizabethan Society. The two groups host parties for one another following the Harvard-Yale football game and compete in a croquet match each year...
Grad students checking out twenty-two books on Elizabethan mating rituals are usually the ones who put the wrong numbers in the wrong places, and yell at the desk staff when they have to redo them...
...oarsmen scored a four-length victory over Britain's Thames Tradesmen, and Yale, the other seeded Ivy Leaguers, defeated the Elizabethan Boat Club by two lenghts...