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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In this suspenseful Romantic tale, all the supporting roles are expertly handled, especially the curious roster of people living in the Count's ancestral chateau: the Count's morphine-addicted mother (Bette Davis), who keeps to her bed and board (chess); his neurotic wife (Irene Worth); his young daughter (Annabel...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Alec Guinness Excels in 'The Scapegoat' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

STRATFORD, Conn., July 29--With its opening performance of All's Well That Ends Well here today, the American Shakespeare Festival has put its full repertory on the boards for the current season. From now until mid-September, this well-acted, handsomely staged, but somewhat abridged All's Well will...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, (SPECIAL TO THE HARVARD SUMMER NEWS) | Title: All's Well That Ends Well | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

Many things in this script tax to the umost the oft-stated "willing suspension of disbelief" that every playgoer is supposed to bring with him into a theatre. Shakespeare was never primarily concerned with story line, anyway; he was more interested in character than in plot. For All's Well...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, (SPECIAL TO THE HARVARD SUMMER NEWS) | Title: All's Well That Ends Well | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

The choice of All's Well raises a raft of problems (some of them insoluble). One of these is of long standing, and arises from the publication of Shakespeare's collected plays by his fellow-actors John Heminges and Henry Condell in the celebrated First Folio of 1623. In this...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, (SPECIAL TO THE HARVARD SUMMER NEWS) | Title: All's Well That Ends Well | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

This play was designated a "comedy" in the Folio. Modern scholarship has tried to improve the situation by setting up a sub-category of "dark comedies" for All's Well, Troilus and Cressida, and Measure for Measure. But let's face it: All's Well simply is not a comedy...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, (SPECIAL TO THE HARVARD SUMMER NEWS) | Title: All's Well That Ends Well | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

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