I could not send it — here it is again —
Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,
So fearful were they of infection.
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare.
The contagion has prevented Fri...
It was Neel Piritir Phul, a freewheeling adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Ebong Amra, that floored this reviewer. Instead of flirting with th...
It appears that Lear is already on his way towards that stage. Not long after the Fool’s prophecy, we see a kneeling Lear (Act 3, Scene 4) talking about the plight of the “naked wretches&r...
Cast anew
Sir — Stories must be retold according to the changing needs of the time. The Royal Shakespeare Company has set its new production of Much Ado About Nothing in an Afro-futuristic worl...
No Parking
Parking will not be allowed on Park Street between the JL Nehru Road crossing and the Wood Street crossing.
Parking will not be allowed on Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Camac Street, Middleton S...
Shakespeare had to choose one of his most endearing heroines to voice the politically incorrect. True, Juliet was too young and too desperately in love to bother about complicated theories of words an...
What next? Where does Anirban go from here? You have set the bar impossibly high both for yourself and for cinema in Bengal!
(Laughs) I really don’t know. I am aware of the inherent cha...
Students of an esoteric line of English literature know of the great sermon writers of the seventeenth century: John Donne, Lancelot Andrewes, Jeremy Taylor. There are hardly any matching names from t...