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Breaking the Code:

A Genius's Double Enigma
A Short Article by Jack Kroll (Newsweek)

Ingenuousness and Genius
A short Article by William A. Henry III (Time)

A Play Encoded
A Review by John Simon
Theater Critic, (New York Magazine)

Colleagues Applaud Jacobi's Quiet Craft
by Leslie Bennetts
New York Times, November 26, 1987

A Stage Wizard Conjures Much From Little
by Benedict Nightingale 
The Sunday New York Times, November 29, 1987

Various Review Excerpts 
(television version)

Cadfael:

Monk Mystery  is a Hair-Raiser 
by Lynn Elber
Associated Press (January 1995)

Worth Doing a Little Penance  
An Article by Hilary Kingsley
London Times, May 28, 1994

SIGNOFF; That Healing Touch in a Brutal Century
An Article by Marilyn Stasio
New York Times, January 3, 1999

Sir Derek Jacobi Bids Cadfael Farewell
An Interview with Amazon.com

A PBS Interview

Cyrano de Bergerac:

A Cyrano from London
An Article by Rhoda Koenig (1982)

How One Actor Moves Between Polar Opposites
An Article by Michiko Kakutani
The Sunday New York Times, January 20, 1985

Everything's Coming Up Noses
An article about Chris Tucker
Makeup Man for Cyrano (People)

Hamlet Productions:

Various Reviews of Stage Production

BBC Shakespeare Plays
An Interview

Hamlet
An Article re BBC Production by S. Schoenbaum
T.V. Guide, November 8, 1980

The Role is the Thing
An Interview re BBC Production by Clarke Taylor
Los Angeles Times, November 8, 1980

"Hamlet Now"          
by Sally Beauman; "The Dial",   November 1980

Various Reviews of BBC TV Production

An Article from BBC Education
An Article re 1996 Branagh Film

From Graves to Gravedigger
An Interview re 1996 Branagh Film by Peter Mountain

A Standard Times Interview
An Interview re 1996 Branagh Film by Luaine Lee 
Scripps Howard News Service

A Review of Hamlet (film)
Dr. Tita French Baumlin, university professor of Shakespeare
(as quoted in the "Are you Shakespearienced?" SMSU web site)

 I, Claudius:

I, Claudius: Pure Decadent Pleasure  
A Review by Marvin Kittman
T.V. Guide

An orgy of TV reminiscence
An Article by W. Stephen Gilbert
The London Times, September 25 1996

Love is the Devil: 

Love is the Devil
Reviews from the Urban Cinefile, 1997

Bringing Home the Bacon 
Interview from the 1998 Cannes Film Festival

An Interview by Stan Schwartz 
NYC Citysearch.com

Sympathy for the Devil
by Cate McQuaid
Boston Globe, Sunday November 8, 1998 

Portrait of the Artist
An Interview by Hedy Weiss
Theater Critic for the Chicago Sun Times, November 15, 1998  

'Devil' of a Film Finally Gives Jacobi
a Meaty Role in Movies

An Interview by Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune Movie Critic, November 20, 1998

A Conversation with Sir Derek Jacobi
by Deanna Quinones
1998 Mill Valley Film Festival Program

Entering an Empire of Pain 
by Kristine McKenna
LA Times Sunday, October 11, 1998

Derek Jacobi Takes a Dark Turn as a Painter / Sexuality colors art in `Devil'
The San Francisco Chronicle Date: 10/08/1998

Much Ado About Nothing:

An Interview From "Shakespeare's Players
by Judith Cook, Harrap, London; 1983

Derek Jacobi Gives the Audience a Role to Play 
An Interview  by Francesca Simon
Los Angeles Herald Examiner June 3, 1984

Various Reviews

Richard II:

BBC Shakespeare Plays
An Interview by John Wilders

Various Reviews

Derek Jacobi--Ruler of the Stage
An Article by Frank Rich
New York Times, December 22, 1988

The Tempest:

An Interview From "Shakespeare's Players"
by Judith Cook , Harrap, London; 1983

Derek Jacobi on Shakespearean Acting
by John Andrews, The Shakespeare Quarterly

Various Reviews

Uncle Vanya:

 Modest Once the Play Is Over 
By Peter Marks,  New York Times, April 16, 2000

Gosford Park

Gosford Park 
by Todd McCarthy, Variety Chief Film Critic, 2001

General Interviews and Articles:

Derek Jacobi 
interviewed by Joan Martin-Burke of CBS News in New York
on February 9, 1978

Things I wish I’d known at 18
an Interview by Sandra Barwick (Sunday Express--1984)

A Interview from Text & Performance
An Interview by Clyde Vinson, January 1989

London Times (The Idiot)
An Article by Michael Billington 
The London Times, July 11, 1970

I, Claudius is Ancient History ... a Broadway Play's the Thing
An Article by Bobbie Stein and Fred Hauptfuhrer
People Magazine, October 1980

The Actor's Art
An Interview by Dan Sullivan
Sunday Los Angeles Times, June 3, 1984

Much Ado About Derek Jacobi
by Jack Kroll
Newsweek Magazine, October 22, 1984

Broadway Gives Him Regards  
An Article by Karen Heller
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 13, 1987

The Diffident King finds Refuge
The London Sunday Times Profile, December 4, 1988

Article from the Guardian ( 1991)

I, Derek 
An Interview by Nancy Mills; 1991

Life of Byron
An Article by Peter Lewis
The Sunday (London) Times: May 24, 1992

The Superhuman Voice  
An Article by Judith Green
San Jose Mercury, December 11, 1992

A Derek Jacobi Fest
An Article by J.W.M.
The Shakespeare Newsletter, April 1997 

My Bit of Britain
An Interview with Derek Jacobi, In Britain, August 1997

Words have the Real Special Effect
1998 Cannes Festival Interview
by the London Times in May, 1998

Jacobian Drama
An Interview by Scott Proudfit
Backstage West Drama-Logue, October 8, 1998

Snob of Stage No More
An Article by Jamie Portman
The Ottawa Citizen, November 28, 1998

God Only Knows
by Helen Cross
Birmingham Post, August 24, 2000

I, Jacobi
From the Sutton Guardian, September 8, 2000

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