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...Edward IV appears in Shakespeare's first folio, and The Wars of the Roses is not found in his collected works. But both titles are prominently on display this summer at that most sanctified shrine of Shakespeariana, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford on Avon. And although Wars of the Roses is stuffed with lines that Shakespeare never wrote, it has won the unanimous praise of the London critics. "A landmark and beacon in the postwar English theater," said the Daily Mail's usually savage Bernard Levin...
...Avon River. To prove something or other McPhee had himself photographed on the same railing (see cut) to send to Burton...
Between Stratford-upon-Avon and the Old Vic, he has delivered some nine or ten major Shakespearean performances, including a shining Prince Hal, a superb lago, and the definitive Coriolanus...
...danger of annihilation. Weather, children, riflemen and clumsy power mowers are rapidly wreaking havoc on the ancient tombstones that stand row on row in cemeteries all over New England and the South. But with the help of a Ford Foundation grant, two young artists, Ann Parker and Avon Neal, have been haunting graveyards since 1961, preserving the crumbling heritage in a less vulnerable form. Last week a show of 120 of their meticulous gravestone rubbings (see opposite page) opened at the Brooklyn Museum...
...never been seen in anything more exacting than a high school football game before being hailed as a superstar-Peter O'Toole was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and is a veteran of both the Bristol Old Vic and the Shakespeare company at Stratford on Avon. Critics have variously cited his "huge resources" and "sinewy vitality," his capacity to deliver lines so that they "sing like bullets...