As far as we know, Timon of Athens was never staged in Shakespeare’s lifetime. It is rarely staged in ours. In terms of genre, it is akin to his late romances, beginning as a Ben-Jonson-style comedy and ending in Lear-like tragedy. As with Pericles and Two Noble Kinsman, it is a collaboration, and here the […]
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At the offices of the George H. Jones Company, platitudes rap out as quickly as the clickety-clack of the typewriters. “Hot dog!” cries an office boy (Ryan Dinning) in response to nearly everything. “Haste makes waste,” warns an elderly stenographer (Henny Russell). And George H. Jones (Michael Cumpsty) himself informs all his employees, “The early […]
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In a letter to Professor George R. Noyes of UC Berkeley, Vladimir Nabokov declared, “[I] am prepared to fight to the last drop of my ink … the deliberate moralizing which to me kills every vestige of art in a work however skillfully written.” I tend to agree with Nabokov, though Bill W. and Dr. […]
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