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STRATFORD, Conn.--It is not often that sets and costumes merit the first and highest praise in a Shakespearean production, but the current Twelfth Night on view at stratford is certainly one instance. The dramatist laid the play in Illyris near the Adriatic coast; but the locale is of no particular import, and Will Steven Armstrong decided to make this romantic comedy a little more exotic by pushing it into a Near East such as Elizaebthans might have envisioned...
...world of Off-Broadway seems an improbable setting for Alfred, the world of Anglo-Saxon epics would appear even more so. Why Beowulf for a would-be dramatist...
STRATFORD, Conn.--One of the world's great studies of what it takes to be a first-rate ruler is Shakespeare's set of four plays comprising Richard II, the two parts of Henry IV, and Henry V. The dramatist here presents and analyses the many reasons for the failure of the first two monarchs and the triumphant success of the third...
...Henry IV, Falstaff and Hal spend a lot of time carousing and frolicking together. In the 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...
...play, A Bond Honoured. Writes TIME: "London's critics cast one look at the tasteless mayhem . . . and held their noses." Of the twelve major newspaper critics, at least four held their breath. Harold Hobson in the Sunday Times said of Osborne: "He is not only our most important dramatist; he is also our chief prophet." According to Ronald Bryden of the Observer, "the effect of A Bond Honoured in performance is marvelously theatrical." Alan Brien of the Sunday Telegraph thought it "a serious, ambitious and valuable play which matures in the memory and fertilizes the imagination," while for Milton...