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...series of bizarre episodes, Gog finds himself involved with such hallucinatory historical characters as the Duke of Wellington, Cleopatra, and Alfred the Great, not to mention such odd fictive figures as the Bagman and the Crook. In a novel of this picaresque kind, an orgy is to be expected sooner or later. Gog's orgy comes promptly and seems to be under pre-Christian Druidic auspices, though the Marquis de Sade and Herr von Sacher-Masoch are present in postures appropriate to their eponymous status. Gog meets his spiritual twin, an evil ogre called Magog. He also finds...
...taste of Russian humor in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, with The Merry Wives of Windsor providing the Anglo-Saxon comedy. Richard 111, played by Alan Bates, represents a somewhat darker strain. On July 31, Christopher Plummer appears as Antony, with Zoe Caldwell as his Cleopatra. A new play, James Reaney's Colours in the Dark, debuts July...
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Ashland, Ore., is one of the oldest on the continent. To celebrate its 27th season, it presents Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew and Richard HI, on a rotating basis from July 22 through Sept...
...Selznick chose her to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind; that part won her an Oscar, as did her Blanche DuBois in 1952's A Streetcar Named Desire. No movie could match the historic 1951-52 London and Broadway stage performances of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra with Laurence Olivier, her longtime lover, second husband and most ardent tutor. The triumphs were fewer after their divorce in 1960, though she still won plaudits as the vixenish divorcee in Hollywood's Ship of Fools two years ago and as the consumptive Anna last...
...reams of it, in relentless iambic pentameter. It was dourly didactic, endlessly hortatory: "Come, come, I'll show unto thy sense,/ Industry hath its recompense." Some of it was inadvertently funny: "Was ever gem so rich found in thy trunk/ As Egypt's wanton Cleopatra drunk?" Yet when her work was published in London in 1650 as The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up In America, it became one of the "most vendible books in England," and when its author died in 1672 her eulogist said: "Time will a poet raise/Born under better Stars, shall sing thy praise...