Word: bard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard III is prentice Shakespeare (some have argued that it is not all his) and in it the early Bard catches only the surfaces of evil. But he gives Richard two thoroughly vivid characteristics: a malign, gloating wit and a flamboyant love of effect. The role is an actor's dream because Richard is himself forever acting-throwing not a dark veil but a bright light round his hypocrisies, welcoming, not wincing at his bloody crimes. Seldom has there been such joy of villainy...
...third set is always played in searsucker jackets and the epilogue in caps and gowns. Just what sort of comedy the play is--whether it is farce, or burlesque, or tragi-comedy--has never been settled. But that is a matter for pedants to discuss. Today, as the great bard has said, we have another op'nin' of another show, and if it isn't "The Taming of the Shrew," and if it isn't in Baltimore, of all places, what difference does that make, so long as the lectures are at eleven o'clock, the reading is light...
...Whorf and Richard Barr, who hope to present this version on Broadway in the near future. As a Repertory offering it rates an unhesitating recommendation, but it is not a very good play, and the Messrs. Whorf and Barr could do well to devote their talents elsewhere in the Bard's works...
...book, Island of Death (J. J. Augustin; $7), Dr. Werner Wolff, professor of psychology at Bard College, N.Y., tackles the problem with a "psychological" approach. There is plenty of scattered information about Easter Island, says Dr. Wolff. Why not fit the pieces together and use psychological insight to reconstruct the island's ancient culture? Then the mystery of the statues might be solved...
They are looking for "the absolute of sex in feminine flesh." Or more exactly, they are searching for the properly lascivious features that are required of Helen of Troy as the Bard envisioned...