Word: coriolanus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ashland, Ore., Oregon Shakespeare Festival: A Comedy of Errors, Henry IV, Part 2, As You Like It and Coriolanus, in rotation...
...probably not sufficient to relate Mr. Gunn's heroes to the convention of the "broken Coriolanus," or more contemporaneously and thus more deceptively, that of the cardiac Sisyphus. The quality of "starriness" central to the title poem and one other, entitled "Blackie, the Electric Rembrandt," is that "disinterested, hard energy" by which Nobody holds Nothing-at-all at bay. Mr. Auden's "ironic points of light" flashed out among a decimated signal corps on the last battlefield of love; Mr. Gunn's stars are self-sufficient. Where Donne tossed and scrambeld known quantities and academically-sanctioned categories, where Shakespeare talked...
...went to Hollywood, and in ten years turned out more than a dozen films; in New York he directed Mary Martin in Lute Song and Robert Ryan in Coriolanus. Trying television, he produced Playhouse go for two seasons. Most notably, however, he was artistic director of the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., built it from an initial failure into a successful operation in four seasons. He quit in disgust two years ago when the trustees would not let him establish a permanent repertory company...
Stratford, Ont., Shakespeare Festival: Henry VIII, Coriolanus and Love's Labour's Lost...
Stratford, Ont., Stratford Festival: Love's Labour's Lost, Henry VIII, Coriolanus, The Pirates of Penzance and a new play, The Canvas Barricade, by Donald La-mount Jack...