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...Reader Gettler gave up too soon. Here is the list: 1) Falstaff; 2) Richard III; 3) the Shakespearean jester, e.g., Touchstone; 4) Ariel (whose hand, trumpet and feet stuck out behind the cover slash); 5) Caliban; 6) Hamlet (with Yorick); 7) King Lear; 8) & 9) Antony and Cleopatra; 10) & 11) Petruchio and the shrew he tamed, Katharina; 12) Ophelia; 13) & 14) Othello and his ill-fated wife, Desdemona; 15) & 16) Juliet and Romeo; 17) a gravedigger from Hamlet; 18) & 19) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth; 20), 21) & 22) the three witches from Macbeth, stirring their boiling cauldron; 23) & 24) Bottom...
Prospero's two servants, Ariel and Caliban, represent his control over the upper elements (air and fire) and the lower elements (earth and water). Ariel being half angel and Caliban half beast, the two constitute the termini of Shakespeare's world of humans. Clayton Corzatte, new to the company, is a model Ariel. He is lithe and clean, with an appositely light and attractive tenor voice (for both speech and song). His nimble and graceful movement, unprecedented on this stage, deserves no less a term than choreography; he performs the notable trick of being delicate and sprightly without ever becoming...
...ideal foil is the ponderous Caliban of Earle Hyman (the only performer retained from the Festival's first Tempest in 1955, when he played the Boatswain). Caliban symbolizes evil, low I.Q., and rebellion towards authority: but he is a far more complex character than Ariel (and than usually portrayed), and it is from his lips that the word "grace" eventually issues. Hyman captures most of the complexity. When he emits those horrible words, "Burn but his books!"--especially odious for those of us who recall Senator McCarthy--the b's burst like bombs (significantly, Caliban's language is liberally peppered...
...returned to his vast Arthurian cycle, is now working on volume five, the story of Sir Tristram. For the future, Tim White solemnly assures visitors to Alderney, he plans a series of sequels to Shakespeare's plays. The Tempest, for instance, will begin as Prospero leaves the island. Caliban and Trinculo say to each other: "Well, thank God he's gone...
...Aboard the S.S. Caliban, bound out of Liverpool for Rangoon, things get worse. The lascar stewards curse foully-yet only Pinfold seems to hear. Something, he thinks, is wrong with the ship's ventilating gear; by some acoustic or electrical freak, he hears conversations, snatches of music, and a dog snuffling in the night. Then he somehow listens to an obscene lecture on sex by some evangelical clergyman (though none appears on the passenger list). New voices make themselves heard. They become menacing and are well-informed on Pinfold's private affairs...