Shakespearean

A white actor playing a black person is one thing - black actors play white people in Shakespearean plays all over, and I'm sure more than the occasional white person played Othello, but the line is crossed at colorface.

The Matrix as a Charlie Chaplin short - Boing Boing 2009

Power was a descendent of a long line of theatrical actors: his great grandfather was a nineteenth century comedian; his father, Tyrone Power Sr., was a London stage actor; while his mother, Helen Emma Raeume (stage name Patia Power), often acted opposite her husband in Shakespearean productions.

Five People Born on Cinco de Mayo | myFiveBest 2010

He was born into a family of famous actors, he achieved success in Shakespearean roles but resented the greater acclaim enjoyed by his brother, Edwin Booth.

Five People Born on May 10 | myFiveBest 2010

There is a certain Shakespearean sweep in the seasons and when you add the kind of music and photography it enhances that feeling.

Behind the curtain at NFL Films, 'where football was born' 2008

For one thing, our audiences are getting older and while we hope that succeeding generations will be as interested in Shakespearean theatre as they are today and theatre generally, there are competing forms of entertainment -- a world full of DVDs and computers and rock concerts, you name it.

The Stratford Experience 2007

But an individual in Shakespearean England who firmly believed that all tomatoes are Killer Tomatoes was not being unreasonable or irrational, as we would be apt to judge someone who held that belief in modern America.

Am I a Relativist? Well, It Depends. 2007

If you want to dream of opulence, read a Victorian novel or certain Shakespearean plays.

Archive 2004-10-01 M-mv 2004

If you want to dream of opulence, read a Victorian novel or certain Shakespearean plays.

Making time M-mv 2004

We haven't even gotten to Birdman's opposing counsel, Spyro, a literal drama queen who phrases most of his arguments in Shakespearean meter (his version of Shaggy and Scooby's pot bust is titled, "As You Smok't It").

Boing Boing: May 25, 2003 - May 31, 2003 Archives 2003

For my part, having neither published nor lectured, I feel no call to refresh myself by/[Page 74]/such temporary descent from my orbit under the waves; and in Shakespearean dialect, I had such a

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883