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MICHELANGELO THE PAINTER by Valeria Mariani. 151 pages, 86 color plates. Kimberly Dormann. For properly patriotic Italians, 1964 is the 400th anniversary not of the birth of Shakespeare but of the death of Michelangelo. The resulting commemorative volume, casually displayed on anyone's espresso table, is guaranteed to take the prize this summer-though perhaps only for price ($125) and awkwardness (14 in. by 11 in. by 3 in., weighing 11 Ibs.). The text is learned, dull and clumsily translated. What almost justifies the outrageous price is the color plates, which display every surviving work that Michelangelo painted, including...
HOMAGE TO SHAKESPEARE (Argo). Assorted tributes on his 400th anniversary by poets, musicians and scholars on one side of the record, and on the other, brief readings from his later works by 16 leading Shakespearean actors, including excerpts from two plays now on the boards: Paul Scofield reading Lear's reconciliation with Cordelia and Sir Laurence Olivier delivering Othello's speech to the Senate...
...rehearsal clothes in which this Hamlet is performed tend to reduce the actors to the unregality of their garb. But Shakespeare's kingliest crown is English, and as this 400th anniversary year begins, Richard Burton's lips are brushing it with glory...
THEMES FROM SHAKESPEARE - Salpeter, 42 East 57th. A palettable painting party for his 400th birthday. Present: Antonio Frasconi's woodcut portrait of the poet; John Sennhauser's collage soliloquy, To Be or Not To Be; Philip Evergood's charcoal-and-wash of Macbeth and the witches; Mel Silverman's Will plastered against a 16th century papier-mache London; 16 other artists. Through April...
...Harvard professors have been named to a government-sponsored committee to celebrate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth...