#shakespeare

#shakespeare

Sally Hawkins in "The Lost King." (Graeme Hunter/IFC Films)StarOutline (3 stars) "The Lost King" gets off to a pacey, involving start, with the help of a slashing, gestural musical score reminiscent of Bernard Herrmann at his Hitchcockian best.The rest of "The Lost King" might not live up to that initial urgency, but it takes on its own gentle momentum.

The 17th century rector of St Alban's College in Valladolid, Spain, must have rolled his eyes at the size of the book he had to review for the library.The Jesuit seminary, known as the English College because it produced missionaries committed to the reconversion of England to Catholicism, had received a 900-page volume of Shakespeare's plays.

Author James Shapiro holds his book 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, which has won the Winner of Winners Award at the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.Chris Close (AP) An account of a pivotal year for English history and literature has been named the greatest-ever winner of the U.K.'s leading nonfiction book prize.

A book about a pivotal year in William Shakespeare's life has been named the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners in a special announcement to mark the 25th anniversary of the prestigious nonfiction prize.James Shapiro's 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare originally won the award in 2006, when it was known as the Samuel Johnson prize.

The core of an artificial intelligence program like ChatGPT is something called a large language model: an algorithm that mimics the form of written language.While the inner workings of these algorithms are notoriously difficult to decipher, the basic idea behind them is surprisingly simple.They are trained on mountains of internet text, by going through them a few sentences or paragraphs at a time, repeatedly guessing the next word (or word fragment) and then grading themselves against the real thing.

For decades the New York theater world paid homage to J. Smith-Cameron, a veteran stage actress who has often been compared to Carole Lombard for her precise timing and comic verve.When she wasn't doing Moliere or Shakespeare, she was impressing critics and her fellow actors with her performances in plays by Paul Rudnick, John Patrick Shanley and Beth Henley.

Just one word.Are you listening?Mr. Maguire said to Ben Braddock in The Graduate (1967).Plastics.Twenty-five years later a puckish French horn player warned me, a literature major who didn't yet have an email address, that the future lay in something called hyperlinks.Now here comes David B. Auerbach with a new piece of argot, and a book, for our fast-changing times: Meganets.

King Charles said he wanted to renew the special bond of friendship between the UK and Germany, without mentioning the B-word that has caused the friendship to grow cold in recent years, as he addressed the Bundestag in Berlin on Thursday.The monarch's speech was the first given to Germany's federal parliament by a non-elected head of state.

On Sunday night, Hillary Clinton, fresh from attending the opening night of Bob Fosse's Dancin' on Broadway at the Music Box Theater, swept into the Rosevale Cocktail Room at the Civilian Hotel on West 48th Street.As candles flickered on tables, with miniature models from productions like Hadestown and Dear Evan Hansen displayed on a back wall, a few dozen guests at the private after-party sipped glasses of white wine from the bar.

There is an irony in this novel's title being the name of its protagonist/narrator. Tomas Nevinson has had many personae.He sometimes loses track of which character he is inhabiting.In the long middle section, when he is living undercover in a provincial Spanish city where his true identity (he hopes) is unknown to anyone, his narrative slips unpredictably from first person to third.