“All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare famously wrote for a monologue in As You Like It. That wisdom certainly applies to the modern corporation. Every storyline has its hero. As a leader, your role ...

Boon to theater majors and English scholars but scourge to bored high school student everywhere, the works of William Shakespeare mean many things to many people. As such, the many film adaptations of ...

“I can smile, and murder while I smile,” confides that notorious noble, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, “and frame my face to all occasions.” For Laurence Olivier, pronouncing “frame” like “feign,” it’s ...

The movies have produced one of their rare great works of art. When Laurence Olivier’s magnificent screen production of Shakespeare’s Henry V was first disclosed to a group of Oxford’s impassive ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on Sept. 30, 1948. This story was written by Kate Cameron.) When Ben Jonson said of his fellow-playwright, William Shakespeare, that he “was not of an age, but ...

FOLLOWING the fashion in movies and books, Sir Laurence Olivier has acted and directed a Hamlet with a simplified Freudian interpretation. The mad Ophelia makes caressing motions over a phallic ...

Partially funded by the British government following the devastation of World War II, this widely lauded film adaptation of a Globe Theatre production earned Olivier a special honorary Academy Award ...