Word: bard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only source is the posthumous First Folio edition, which presents difficult textual problems and is several stages removed from the dramatist's original script. On the one hand, it certainly contains some passages that were foreign interpolations; on the other, it possibly lacks one or two scenes that the Bard originally included. As it stands, it is only about half the length of Hamlet; and The Comedy of Errors is the only shorter work in the canon...
...BARD COLLEGE...
...sugar-cured Shakespearean actor named Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) who sets out to eliminate the London critics who have mocked and vilified him during his career. He kills each of them in a quite elaborate and grisly fashion, every slaughter based on a scenario provided by the Bard: one hapless critic, for example, has his heart cut out (the pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice), another is stabbed to death on the Ides of March. Worst torture of all, perhaps, is that the poor struggling wretches must listen to Lionheart declaim passages from the pertinent play before...
...baptiz'd. William Bard...
FRIDAY: Much Ado About Nothing. Producer Joseph Papp brings a jazzed-up version of the Bard to television with a pre WWI setting and brassy music. Choreography by Donald Saddler ("No, No Nanette"). CH. 7, Color...