Touchstone

An example in literature is the character of Touchstone in Shakespeare's As You Like It, described as "a wise fool who acts as a kind of guide or point of reference throughout the play, putting everyone, including himself, to the comic...

In this article: Horatio, Hamlet, and William Shakespeare

...Dumb Waiter and John Mortimer's The Dock Brief in 1984. From 1991-94 he was with Cheek by Jowl and was particularly distinguished as Touchstone in Declan Donellan's all-male As You Like It. When the play toured America one critic...

In this article: Peter Hall, Tamburlaine, National Theatre, Hamlet, Cheek by Jowl, The Romans in Britain, and Albert Finney

Peter Needham, left, as Touchstone in Cheek by Jowl's 1991-94 production of As You Like It, with Richard Cant as Audrey. Photograph: John Haynes The Cheek by Jowl theatre company's two world tours of their celebrated all-male As You Like...

In this article: Cheek by Jowl, Nottingham, National Theatre, John Mortimer, DH Lawrence, and Harold Pinter

...composition, is haunting, suspenseful, and inventive. Here Was a Man: A Novel of Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth I by Norah Lofts (Touchstone, $14) This riveting and romantic story of the tempestuous relationship between Sir Walter...

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Cristi Miles enhances Bullard's performance with critical but supportive attention as best-friend Celia. Steve Irish endows the clown Touchstone with the gift of tongues, channeling everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger and televangelists to...

In this article: San Jose Repertory Theatre and William Shakespeare

...heroines with constant shifts from the lady Rosalind to the "fair boy" Ganymede. Also intact are such elements as the comic scenes with Touchstone, the court jester who flees to the forest with Rosalind and her friend Celia; the buffoonery...

In this article: As You Like It, William Shakespeare, Spelling bee, and San Jose Repertory Theatre

The melancholy Jaques (played by the masterful James Carpenter) becomes a dissipated Keith Richards-meets-John Lennon-esque rock star. Touchstone (Steve Irish) the clown is now a sleazy Rat Pack-style lounge lizard. "As people change, we...

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...into the Forest of Arden accompanied by her moody cousin Celia (the comically smoldering Melisa Breiner-Sanders) and the court Fool, Touchstone (the magnificent Daniel Smith, here channeling John Cleese.) The forest, also the hiding place...

In this article: As You Like It, William Shakespeare, and New York City

...plot points. Many pivotal scenes occur out of the audience's view, only to be retold after the fact, (i.e., the first encounter between Touchstone and Jacques, the heroic saving of Oliver's life by Orlando, the conversion of Duke Frederick in...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Henry V, Emmy Award, and Kenneth Branagh

...character in Shakespeare's play As You Like It. In Shakespeare's Clown, David Wiles suggests that Robert Armin played the part of Touchstone in the first productions of As You Like It (145). The addition of Armin to the Chamberlain's Men...

In this article: Robert Armin, William Shakespeare, and Chamberlain's Men