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		<title>A pleasant fall drive to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Bailly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fields in the Month of June]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[College art museums present special challenges for the art museum junkie because they&#8217;re generally hard to get to.  True, at the Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven, you can just pull into a parking garage and walk a block to the museum.  But others are buried in the middle of impenetrable university complexes where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emsworth.wordpress.com&blog=3879306&post=4589&subd=emsworth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We preview the Shaw Festival&#8217;s 2010 season</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Bull's Other Island]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linda Griffiths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Chase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogden Nash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Touch of Venus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Serious Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Age of Arousal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Cherry Orchard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Doctor's Dilemma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s a challenge to figure out what&#8217;s really going on at the Shaw Festival from the official clues. Now that its 2010 schedule of plays is out, we think we see some changes in direction, possibly having to do with the glum report that Shaw Festival theaters were only 63.5 percent full in 2009, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emsworth.wordpress.com&blog=3879306&post=4525&subd=emsworth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What P. G. Wodehouse learned from Macbeth</title>
		<link>http://emsworth.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/what-p-g-wodehouse-learned-from-macbeth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abou Ben Adhem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bertie Wooster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Greenland's Icy Mountains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gussie Fink-Nottle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Wadsforth Longfellow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeeves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leigh Hunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macbeth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madeline Bassett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P. G. Wodehouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reginald Heber's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Browning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Code of the Woosters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sensitive Plant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reading P. G. Wodehouse would be a joy even if his stories didn&#8217;t have more allusions to his favorite poems than the stars in the sky. On the latest of our many passes through The Code of the Woosters &#8212; perhaps the very best of the Jeeves and Wooster novels &#8212; we started taking inventory.
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		<title>Macbeth at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival</title>
		<link>http://emsworth.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/macbeth-at-the-stratford-shakespeare-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colm Feore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Des McAnuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dion Johnstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diverse casting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gareth Potter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geraint Wyn Davies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Vickery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macbeth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Macbeth deals with historical figures in 11th-century Scotland, and they call it &#8220;the Scottish play.&#8221; So why would any director place its setting in central Africa, circa 1950? We knew there couldn&#8217;t be any good reason. But we figured something must have triggered director Des McAnuff&#8217;s thought process.
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		<title>Sunday will never be the same</title>
		<link>http://emsworth.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/sunday-will-never-be-the-same/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The downward spiral]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[First Bible Baptist Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope Lutheran Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In Shady Green Pastures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love Divine All Loves Excelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Baptist Church]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pearce Memorial Free Methodist Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rip Van Winkle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spanky & Our Gang]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now we know how Rip Van Winkle felt. Emsworth has just retired from a long stint as a church musician in a small, mainline congregation where things changed very little during his 16 years of service. Emerging this fall as if from a long sleep, he has found an evangelical church scene that he hardly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emsworth.wordpress.com&blog=3879306&post=4318&subd=emsworth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We rank our ten favorite Shakespeare plays</title>
		<link>http://emsworth.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/we-rank-our-ten-favorite-shakespeare-plays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[best Shakespeare plays]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Didst thou give all to thy two daughters?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hamlet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry IV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iago the puppet master]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julius Caesar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Lear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Measure for Measure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mervyn Peake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Othello]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tear him for his bad verses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Four-Story Mistake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Merchant of Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tempest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Bowdler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Titus Groan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troilus and Cressida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twelfth Night]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volumes that I prize above my dukedom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since we started the Emsworth blog, we&#8217;ve been amazed to see how many first-rate websites and blogs are devoted more or less exclusively to Shakespeare. The one we like best and visit the most is the indispensable Shakespeare Geek, whose learned readers happily debate such unanswerable questions as whether Hamlet&#8217;s mother was in on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emsworth.wordpress.com&blog=3879306&post=4292&subd=emsworth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jean Racine&#8217;s Phèdre at the Stratford Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Euripedes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Goad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Hazlewood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Sinatra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oenone]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Racine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before we saw Jean Racine&#8217;s Phèdre at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival a couple of weeks ago, we thought the play might give us some clues to the lyrics of one of the oddest pop hits of the 1960s.
It was early 1968 when &#8220;Some Velvet Morning&#8221; was on the radio, a modest top-30 hit for  Nancy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emsworth.wordpress.com&blog=3879306&post=4258&subd=emsworth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chekhov&#8217;s The Three Sisters at the Stratford Festival</title>
		<link>http://emsworth.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/chekhovs-the-three-sisters-at-the-stratford-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>emsworth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anton Chekhov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bertie Wooster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chekhov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalal Badr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon S. Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irene Poole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jackie Maxwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Blendick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeeves in the Offing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joyce Campion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelli Fox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucy Peacock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P. G. Wodehouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Hutt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stratford Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stratford Shakespeare Festival]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve seen Kelli Fox in The Three Sisters twice now. In 2003 she was the oldest sister, Olga, in a production at the Shaw Festival directed by Jackie Maxwell; in the current show at the Stratford Festival she plays Natasha, Olga&#8217;s sister-in-law and nemesis. Kelli Fox is one of the two best reasons to see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emsworth.wordpress.com&blog=3879306&post=4219&subd=emsworth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Nothing personal&#8221;: the trail from The Devil&#8217;s Disciple to Ted Kennedy:</title>
		<link>http://emsworth.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/nothing-personal-the-trail-from-the-devils-disciple-to-ted-kennedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>emsworth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shaw Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The downward spiral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battle for Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Dudgeon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Bronn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Burgoyne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bernard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Burgoyne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Bork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judith Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mario Puzo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Ellen Bork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Corleone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Bork]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tessio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Devil's Disciple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Godfather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder where &#8220;nothing personal, just business&#8221; came from? You probably figured it started with Mario Puzo and The Godfather. But as we were seeing Bernard Shaw&#8217;s 1897 play The Devil&#8217;s Disciple at the Shaw Festival a week ago (see Emsworth&#8217;s review of this fine show at this post), we realized that it goes farther [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emsworth.wordpress.com&blog=3879306&post=4185&subd=emsworth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Devil&#8217;s Disciple at the Shaw Festival</title>
		<link>http://emsworth.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/the-devils-disciple-at-the-shaw-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>emsworth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shaw Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Dudgeon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donna Belleville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Buliung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiona Byrne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Burgoyne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bernard Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Mezon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lorne Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Krantz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Millard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Devil's Disciple]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We hesitated before committing to The Devil&#8217;s Disciple this year because, frankly, we failed to see much in the play when we first saw it thirteen years ago. 
But friends were saying good things about the show, Evan Buliung was starring, and the play was, after all, supposed to be one of Shaw&#8217;s most popular. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=emsworth.wordpress.com&blog=3879306&post=4147&subd=emsworth&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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