william shakespeare once famously wrote that all the world is the stage, and for canadian choreographer, those words are true. of the next five years, they will travel to 10 geary buildings around the world using the roofs and the walls as a dance floor. >> my name is -- and i am a choreographer. was born in canada in the province of quebec. in contrast to a lot of the performances i've done, this is very editorial. i describe it as the body disintegrating into light. the soul as it leaves the body. and i think of the stairwell, is definitely more visceral. the floor is creating an interesting tunnel. it really takes on our real dimension of, you know, what this architecture, however relates to the body. this is one of frank geary's designs and it is the next site for the rapture series. the raptured series will be -- the rapture series will be performed on 10 of his buildings around the world. we're going to have a large amount of dancers, inside and outside the building, and also use studio lighting and projections. it will really be about bringing his architectural live. -- a lot. --

. >> the university is putting william shakespeare's comedy much ado about nothing and adding some newents to the classic play. john howard's and has details. >> shakespeare plays can be hard to follow but change the settings from italy to california might make it easier. >> they can get too involved timewise. >> the plate includes spanish singing. >> and the group was added to dance throughout the play as well. >> the more of san jose state representatives uk as part of depression, the more it advertises us. >> the main character has an internal conflict of love. drew jones explains his complex character. >> the romantic lead along with claudio, what he does if he falls in love with beatrice and eventually when he fooled into thinking that beatrice loves him, he goes and tries to seek her out, though he's one typical characters. i don't want to be in love, but then he is that he finds himself falling in love. >> there is love, war, comedy and history to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. >> many people will be going home for the thanksgiving weekend but few know about this

william shakespeare once famously wrote that all of the room is a stage, and for a canadian choreographer, her work is a truth embodiment of that phrase. using outdoor settings in public places, her art comes to life, and now be architecture of frank is part of the act. dancers will travel to nine of his buildings around the world, and the result is an amazing display. we talked about her work. >> ball short -- bonjour. i was born in canada. i was in the province of quebec. this contrasts a lot of the performances i have done. i described as the body disintegrating into life or the sole escaping the body. if i think of the stairwell, it is definitely more of a visceral anesthetic feeling that the stairs have, and they created interesting tunnel, but when you and have it with people, then it really ticks on a real dimension of what this architecture, how it relates. this is one of his designs. it is the site of the raptures series, which will be performed on 10 of the french geary billings around the world -- the frank geary buildings around the world. we will have a large amount of dancer

the years of "booknotes," some 15 1/2 years, we checked some 50 different authors mentioned, william shakespeare. i want to show you a couple so we get the flavor of what they're saying about and after. >> what i tried to do with humor and columns is let the readers see politics almost like a shakespearean drama in the sense that you have running characters. >> we want to understand life, there's no better way than reading shakespeare and discussing it with a lot of people. >> one of the characteristics of extraordinary people, particularly mozart, shakespeare keets are used as example, these individuals are said to have negative capabilities. what negative capability means is ratherer this than having a strong personality themselves, they have an incredible ability to pick up the personalities of individuals around them and be able to capture that in their works. >> the children have to learn english, how do you learn english? read shakespeare. >> i can read to you shakespeare word for word. >> dreams in english, and that language is the language of shakespeare and milton and toni morrison. >>

professor of the humanities at harvard university, perhaps best known for his biography of william shakespeare. his latest book is called "the swerve: how the world became modern." it is a story of how poem, lost for 1,000 years, helped shape the modern world. i'm pleased to have stephen greenblatt back at this table. welcome. >> thank you very much. >> rose: this is one greatstory. >> it is a great story. thank you. i don't take credit for it, except that it's a magnificent story. >> rose: tell the story offindir section at yale the book that you found. >> when i was an undergraduate, with very little money in my pock, i picked up at the end of the year in a bin of books for sale a book that cost a dime with a cover that caught my attention. i'd never heard of the author. >> rose: you bought it for thec? >> absolutely. i judged the book by the cover. the author was someone i'd never heard of. the title i'd never heard of. i saw it was a book about ancient physics. i thought, hmm, i'm not interested in ancient physics, but e cover was alluring. two pairs of legs up the sky doing -- you couldn'

in our premier episode, we explore the genius of william shakespeare and focus on one of his greatest plays "hamlet." the thing that astonishes all of actors who portray hamlet and director who try to take hamlet on is the way that he is infinitely protean. you can find things of almost every different direction, of ery different time perd, everyifferent psychology inside that character and we're l hamlet because hamlet takes on our appearance. takes on who we are and speaks to us in any time. >> what a complex act it is to knowhat you are. to try to fulfill the expectations of your parents, to make your way in the world, to understand that you are no simply in the world to make it what you want but you're given a set of, in effect, commands that you can ask questions about them and question them but you can't escape them. you have to struggle with them. see where they lead you. hamlet is, of course, a tragic case of this "oh cursed spite that ever i was born" he says for himself. but that experience over the centuries has spoken to generations and generations. >> rose: a charlie rose

. >> to me, the two greatest authors in english are ralph waldo emerson and william shakespeare. and if i had to name one that i prefer for the education of young people, if i had to ask my kids to read all of one rather than all of the other, it would undoubtedly be ralph waldo emerson. >> let me show you a little of robert richardson who was here sometime ago in 1995 and he wrote a book "fire on ice" about emerson and see just a little bit about what he had to say. >> emerson is who i read when i'm feeling about. i come away from reading feeling better about myself and the world and my friends and the country, and this ability of emerson to reach the individual, to reach me alone, not as part of a party or a group or anything else, just the individual, i think is something he still has. and i find that when one puts this in front of young people, they respond and they take it up. >> do you agree? >> he's right on the head there, especially when he talks about the individual. emerson speaks to the individual and tells the individual to treasure his own thoughts, his own percepti

. >> william shakespeare. >> please. that's too easy. >> that's the point. the greatest geniuses continue to evolve. and those people have so much that they have it all together they could do 40 more masterpieces if they don't have the time. >> there were two -- one in a generation. >> that's the point. the greatest continue to evolve and other people have their thing to do and it's wonderful and then they've done it any other fate steps in with a slightly eroded because those wonderful writer, has lots folks are terrible. that's the way it is. >> but we talked a little bit about this unconscious creativeness with writers and actually scientists as well, where percolates someone or in the unconscious and sometimes that pops out uninformed and it can take years and years. and meanwhile if you're an established writer, you feel a compulsion to write without that. >> because it's what you do. the thing is given life were brought to keep going. >> final question. >> said the academic take on "catch-22" is that whatever he says that war, whatever it says about ca