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...skill. The close-ups require the whole company to mime, and they do so convincingly. Macmillan passes the toughest test in his delicate handling of the tomb scene. Here the dying are trying to make love to the dead, potentially a macabre situation without the saving grace of the Bard's poetry...
...accepts and purifies all things. But Jonson is like the tide: a cool comic moralist who spews upon the shore line all the debris of vice-infected humanity. In The Alchemist and Volpone, Jonson was a giant of comedy. Directing for the crude buffoonery characteristic of the Bard's low-comedy scenes, Irving turns him into a Shakespearean dwarf...
Delft, today best known for its china, was then the home of many other important painters-notably Jan Steen, who recorded a lustier side of Dutch life, and Carel Fabritius, one of Rembrandt's pupils who may have been Vermeer's teacher. In fact, a local bard, on the occasion of Fabritius' early death, portrays Vermeer, then only 22, as the phoenix who would rise to greatness in his place...
Shakespeare festivals are still a mainstay of summer theater, but more and more the Bard's works are blended with a touch of contemporary...
...present play, the dramatist has very carefully decreased Hal's participation in the comic scenes in order to prepare the prince -- and us -- for Hal's eventual and necessary rejection of Falstaff and the world of wantonness and waste he represents. Anthony has missed this point completely. What the Bard hath put asunder, let no man join together...