shakespeare

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A movie director's sign with gender symbols on it with text "HER POV."

Her POV: ‘Hamnet’ treats grief as a catalyst to reimagine the world

Blyss Cleveland
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Feb. 3
Humor
Graphic that reads "Astrology Corner."

Your May horoscopes

Jenny Ballutay
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May 13, 2025
Culture
Memchu photo by Da-hee Kim.

Death of the Masterpiece: Bury your Shakespeare

Istaara Amjad
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Feb. 24, 2025
Culture
Photo of the stage production of "Romeo + Juliet," with the ensemble circling Romeo and Juliet about to embrace on top of the bed

A sexy take on Shakespeare: Broadway’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’ captures a new audience

Greta Reich and Oriana Riley
  •  
Jan. 9, 2025
Culture
A white woman sits on the floor, distressed, as a white man sits in a chair looking at her. The set resembles a modern therapist's office

Falling out of love in ‘Juliet and Romeo’

Lydia Wei
  •  
Feb. 5, 2024
The Grind
Colorful shoe on the floor

Dear Boomer: Lost touch

Helen Hudson
  •  
Jan. 29, 2024
Screen
College-aged Andre Braugher onstage in the spotlight. Other students crawl toward him, lit in red.

Remembering Andre Braugher ’84: A magnificent man and his magnificent work

Cameron Duran
  •  
Dec. 23, 2023
Culture
On a darkened stage, seven actors stand facing each other in a visible conflict

Why Not Theatre’s ‘Prince Hamlet’ revolutionizes accessibility and gender identity in performing arts

Ellie Wong
  •  
Oct. 30, 2022
Reads
A red curved arrow pointing to "Either Or" against a yellow background

Elif Batuman’s ‘Either/Or’ is endearingly tedious

Lily Zhou
  •  
May 25, 2022
The Grind
(Photo: HEATHER MACGUIRE/Unsplash)

Lake Shore Drive: Upper school

Matthew Turk
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March 17, 2021
In her landmark essays "A Room of One's Own" and "Professions for Women," Virginia Woolf critiques female archetypes (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

Woolf, witches and wives: Coming of age through archetype

Claire Francis
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Feb. 27, 2019
The Stanford Shakespeare Company presents "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (courtesy of Frank Chen).

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ delves into the trials of love through fantasy

Shana E. Hadi
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Feb. 22, 2019
Although it is commonly cited as a great love story, Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" really isn't a romance (MARK YORK/The Stanford Daily).

‘Romeo and Juliet’ Is NOT a Love Story: CHANGE MY MIND!

Mark York
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Oct. 25, 2018
Auditioning for a cappella groups like Talisman can be both exciting and unnerving (MCKENZIE LYNCH/The Stanford Daily).

Four-part harmony: Stanford students share 2018 a cappella audition experiences

Natalie Francis
  •  
Oct. 23, 2018
Courtesy of Marceau Films/United Artists

Welles’ ‘Othello’ is a beautiful, painful tragedy

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Jan. 26, 2018
Courtesy of Teatro Matacandelas

Marked bodies and the popularity of literary tattoos

Gracie Newman
  •  
Jan. 23, 2018
Courtesy of David Matthew Parker

Absurdist fiction reads to catch this weekend

Arts & Life Reads beat writers
  •  
Nov. 30, 2017
Arts & Life
Hannah Miller '19 is the eponymous 'Hamlet' in [wit]'s fall production. (Courtesy of Frank Chen)

[wit]’s production of ‘Hamlet’ brings ‘scorched earth’ to a whole new level

Olivia Popp
  •  
Nov. 17, 2017
“Ambition's debt is paid!” proclaims Brutus (Danforth Comins, with knife) after the assassination of Caesar (Armando Durán, in chair), with Metellus Cimber (Ted Deasy), Cassius (Rodney Gardiner) and Caska (Stephen Michael Spencer) in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2017 production of 'Julius Caesar' (Photo by Jenny Graham).

OSF pt. 1: Shaking up Shakespeare with ‘Henry IV, Part 1’ and ‘Julius Caesar’

Olivia Popp
  •  
Aug. 10, 2017
Photo courtesy of Stefanie Okuda.

TAPS’s ‘The Tempest’ conjures a storm of originality and wit

Alli Cruz
  •  
March 3, 2017
The Stanford Daily

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