The March madness of Shakespeare.(Columns)(Column)

The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | March 22, 2005 | Copyright

Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard

ASHLAND - I'd make a pathetic Renaissance Man, not that I'd ever be invited to join the club.

There I was Saturday afternoon, sitting in a 1905 Victorian cottage, trying to understand Shakespeare's "Richard III" by reading Cliffs Notes. (What, you expected me to be doing something as gauche as, say, watching the NCAA basketball tournament?)

I might be a cultural neophyte, but when that curtain went up at 8 o'clock Saturday for this Oregon Shakespeare Festival production, I was going to be ready for my first ...

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