In Shakespeare’s time, women onstage were played by boys, and for those boy players, fame could be fleeting. Nicole Galland’s novel Boy follows Alexander “Sander” Cooke, a real-life actor in Shakespeare’s company.
Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 186 An Argentine woman translates A Midsummer Night’s Dream while incessantly taping travel postcards to a wall. Two Argentine actresses vie for the same role in Measure for Measure. An actress in Buenos Aires seduces her colleague while…
Audiences sometimes go from roaring with laughter to scratching their heads when it comes to Shakespeare’s jokes 400 years later. How (and why) has “what’s funny” changed over the years—and what’s still a guaranteed belly laugh?
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