Word: bard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YOUR OWN THING. Writer-Director Donald Driver mixes media and blends bits of the Bard with shreds of Hollywood folklore, shakes them up with high jinks and low camp, and comes out with an ingratiating rock musical version of Twelfth Night...
...begins the strange version of Hamlet that Director Joseph Papp presented last week at his Public Theater in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. In his years as producer of New York's open-air Shakespeare summer festival in Central Park, Papp has proved his ability to do the Bard straight. This time he does Shakespeare free and fancy. To a background of mind-bending rock music, his characters speak of Denmark, although they are costumed to suggest a modern military camp. Yet it is abundantly clear that the time and place of the action are any time...
...TRUTHFUL HARP by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Evaline Ness (Holt; $3.50). A prizewinning team tells a story, with more text than most picture books, about a young king who fulfills his secret wish to wander the countryside as a bard and learns thereby many truths...
...angry young Folk Singer Bob Dylan toured England in the spring of 1965, his entourage included a friendly spy in the person of Film Maker D. A. Pennebaker. Out of that journey, Pennebaker has created a 96-minute essay in cinematic truthtelling that may explain how the thin-voiced bard of the bedraggled became a subcultural prophet and a millionaire by combining the most resonant cliches of alienation and some not very distinguished music...
Sometimes, the Bard shares the boards with other playwrights, but most often he plays alone...