Night Moves: Stealing Shakespeare @ Lantern Theater

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Night Moves: Stealing Shakespeare @ Lantern Theater

POSTED: Monday, April 6, 2009, 9:04 PM
Filed Under: Arts | Night Moves

Don't know what to do tonight? Don't worry, we've got you covered.

Baz Luhrmann wasn't the first to do it. From long-winded author Charles Dickens to psychology star Sigmund Freud, artists, philosophers and writers have been aping William Shakespeare's works for more than 400 years. But why him? Why not get inspired by Hemingway or Aristotle? (Well, OK, so people copy them too. But with such fervor, so that even The Lion King mimics their themes? Didn't think so.)

Villanova and NYU profs, including William Electric Black and Paul Spiro, will wonder why we can't help but look up to Shakespeare at tonight's lecture on his far-reaching influence. Coinciding with Lantern Theater's production of Hamlet, they'll especially focus on the our obsession with his freaky-deaky Oedipal work.

And while we're on the subject of Shakespeare, have you heard all the hoopla about how he might be way hotter than we'd originally thought?


Mon., April 6, 7-9pm, $5-$10, Lantern Theater, 10th & Ludlow sts., 215-829-0395, lanterntheater.org

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