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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.1870  Saturday, 9 October 2004

[1]     From:   Richard Burt <rburt@english.ufl.edu>
        Date:   Friday, 8 Oct 2004 08:37:51 -0400
        Subj:   Upstaged by the King, an Actor in Drag Straightens Out

[2]     From:   Richard Burt <rburt@english.ufl.edu>
        Date:   Friday, 8 Oct 2004 19:08:56 -0400
        Subj:   Stage Beauty Reviews


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From:           Richard Burt <rburt@english.ufl.edu>
Date:           Friday, 8 Oct 2004 08:37:51 -0400
Subject:        Upstaged by the King, an Actor in Drag Straightens Out

Upstaged by the King, an Actor in Drag Straightens Out
October 8, 2004
  By A. O. SCOTT

"Stage Beauty" takes place in London during the reign of Charles II, an
era of curly wigs and knee breeches much beloved by connoisseurs of
high-end costume drama. It was a thoroughly theatrical age, and Richard
Eyre's new film, based on a play by Jeffrey Hatcher, feasts on both its
on-and offstage spectacles.

Not the least of these is the monarch himself, played with perfumed
hamminess by Rupert Everett. His consort is the brassy cockney
music-hall performer Nell Gwynn (Zoë Tapper), and compared with their
over-the-top royal shtick, the doings of ordinary actors, which are the
film's main concern, look downright banal. But Nell and Charlie bolster
one of the movie's historical insights: that in 17th-century England,
politics were as theatrical as theater was political.

[ . . . ]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/movies/08STAG.html?ex=1098238915&ei=1&en=67f5007cb2ff5ae4

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From:           Richard Burt <rburt@english.ufl.edu>
Date:           Friday, 8 Oct 2004 19:08:56 -0400
Subject:        Stage Beauty Reviews

The New Yorker has a review, and NPR did a review as well.

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/?041011crci_cinema

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