The actor Sir Derek Jacobi is currently acting the part..... Americans may know Jacobi best as Brother Cadfael.
To: marshmallow; BenKenobi
2 posted on
01/07/2011 7:26:41 AM PST by
marshmallow
("A country which kills its own children has no future" -Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
To: marshmallow
Or Claudius. A great actor.
To: marshmallow
Americans may know Jacobi best as Brother Cadfael. Well...yes, but not "know" in the Biblical sense, of course.
Ok, I'll be good...
Personally, I think some of Shakespeare's plays were group efforts.
4 posted on
01/07/2011 7:33:29 AM PST by
Miss_Meyet
(I post, therefore I am---avoiding something)
To: marshmallow
Jacobi was exceptional as Cadfael, but I most liked him as “Chorus” in Kenneth Brannagh’s “Henry V”.
5 posted on
01/07/2011 7:42:16 AM PST by
BlueLancer
(Nuke Austin from orbit .... it's the only way to be sure.)
To: marshmallow
..and Emperor Claudius:
To: marshmallow
See Jacobi in
The King´s Speech. Wonderful film.
Shakespeare was attacked, critically in his lifetime for several of his plays, which gives him considerable cache IMHO.
And, yes, there is very substantial evidence, both from his life and his plays, that he was a Catholic. He seems to have liked living on the edge.
Stephen Greenblatt, Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.
7 posted on
01/07/2011 7:44:51 AM PST by
onedoug
To: marshmallow
To: marshmallow
"Americans may know Jacobi best as Brother Cadfael."I remember him from I Claudius as well.
11 posted on
01/07/2011 8:24:58 AM PST by
Mila
To: marshmallow
Sure hope his Lear is better than the version he offered on Frasier (”BLOW WIND AND CRACK YOUR CHEEKS!!!!”).
12 posted on
01/07/2011 8:31:23 AM PST by
Elwood P. Doud
(America, you voted for a negro socialist with an Islamic name - so why act surprised?)
To: marshmallow
I have always admired Jacobi as an actor. He should have been knighted for
I, Claudius alone. On the BBC Shakespeare Plays series, he turned in great performances as
Richard II and
Hamlet (though now, when I re-watch
Hamlet he does seem a tad to effeminate at times). He was also brilliant as Hitler in the TV miniseries
Inside The Third Reich.
However, Jacobi doesn't understand diddly about history. He is unable to see that artistry is not dependent upon education. He is yet another actor who has played intelligent characters and therefore thinks himself intelligent but he is really an empty vessel himself when it comes to great thinking. I'd love to see his Lear.
17 posted on
01/07/2011 9:45:22 AM PST by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: marshmallow
Shakespeare Did Write Lear; What is More, He Was a CatholicYes, More was indeed a Catholic; but I do wonder whether Shakespeare really wrote all of The Reign of King Edward III.
Ok, I swear, I'll be good.
22 posted on
01/08/2011 8:16:19 AM PST by
Miss_Meyet
(Good bye, tagline! Really, it's not you, it's me. [I have tagline commitment issues])
To: marshmallow
Shakespeare Did Write Lear Sadly, Lear never wrote back. :(
28 posted on
01/09/2011 12:28:54 PM PST by
upsdriver
(to undo the damage the "intellectual elites" have done. . . . . Sarah Palin for President!)
To: marshmallow
I loved the books. The TV series was also very good
30 posted on
05/30/2011 12:31:18 AM PDT by
Cronos
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