Word: andronicus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, New York City. The outdoor theater in Cen tral Park will be the scene of King John, July 5-July 29, and Titus Andronicus, Aug. 2-Aug. 26. Ben Jonson is getting a hearing with his Volpone, performed on a mobile unit around the five boroughs until...
COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Boulder, Colo. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry VI, Part 1, and Titus Andronicus. Aug. 5 through...
Weather vanes have a high-blown tradition. In the 1st century B.C., Greek Architect Andronicus capped his Tower of Winds in Athens with a mighty bronze Triton. The rooster atop the church steeple got its official sanction in the 9th century A.D. when the Pope decreed that every church should mount a weathercock to recall the chanticleer that crowed the night Peter thrice denied his Lord. Vane making reached the peak of its popularity as an art form when American settlers took it up. To record their triumphs of style and ingenuity, Manhattan's Museum of Early American Folk...
...Anne M. Cabot Professor of English. "Here's a new book by a very distinguished Shakespearian scholar and he says simply that no one questions the Shakespearian authorship of any of the plays in the First Folio. The only one he's not sure about is Titus Andronicus; he doesn't think it's good enough. I think he's wrong. It's very clever play--though it's not a pleasant one. But you see, 50 years ago no one would have said that...
...tragedy, it would require performances in the title role and surrounding parts of such delicate adjustment and balance as I can only barely conceive. I have never seen or read of such a production (Olivier's did not come close). No--why not admit it?--Richard III, like Titus Andronicus, is not a tragedy but a melodrama. For the Elizabethans it fulfilled the function that "horror movies" do in our culture...