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Tag: Marjorie Garber
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Nation & World
Classroom magic
A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Shakespeare scholar Marjorie Garber collaborated on a fall freshman seminar titled “Theater and Magic.”
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Words to remember
With the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address near, five Harvard scholars offered their views on the history, language, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln’s short but searing speech.
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Garber, Gawande elected into APS
Marjorie Garber and Atul Gawande have been elected members of the American Philosophical Society.
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A theatrical innovator
Diane Paulus explained her approach to theater, one that involves the active engagement of the audience.
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‘Porgy and Bess,’ made new
A.R.T. reimagines the classic Gershwin opera, with help from some Harvard undergraduates.
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The one, indispensable book
A handful of authors featured in Harvard Bound over the past year answer the question: What is an essential book for today’s graduates — and why? Here are their suggestions as the newest Harvard degree-holders head out into the world.
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Why and how
Professor Marjorie Garber’s new book examines “why we read literature, why we study it, and why it doesn’t need to have an application someplace else in order to be definitive in its talking about human life and culture.”
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Theater’s new frontiers
Offbeat Director John Tiffany, whose company stages productions in unlikely locales, is using a fellowship year at Radcliffe to explore the ways that people communicate, complete with tics.
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Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Timeless Shakespeare is actually timely, says Marjorie Garber, a well-known professor who directs the Carpenter Center, in this penetrating text devoted to 10 of the Bard’s foremost plays and the ways they’re inextricably tangled into the fabric of modern culture.
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‘Shakespeare Exploded’
A.R.T. leads effort to keep Shakespeare’s plays relevant for modern times, with its primary mission what his likely was: to lure audiences into the theater.
