Word: elizabethan
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...Does anyone suppose that if the Elizabethan Theatre . . . had been under public control it would have produced Shakespeare? . . . Mr. Justice Shallow in all his many guises would have greatly exerted himself to, as it were, keep Sir John Falstaff...
Shakespeare has a new home this side of the Atlantic. The place: Stratford, a small (pop. 19,000) railroad town in the dairy country of southern Ontario, on the banks of Canada's River Avon. But the Shakespeare festival which opened there last week-on a neo-Elizabethan stage under a spreading carnival tent-is not straw-hat; it is distinctly top-hat. And the two plays, presented by a first-rate cast (stars: Alec Guinness. Irene Worth), are as surprising as the event itself. For the real hit is not the famous, battle-tested King Richard...
...will to prosper. Neither government nor opposition dares allow itself to be disclosed fully facing the facts." What most worried the Times was the too-popular conviction that somehow, somewhere, "there is a formula that of itself will cure the country's ills ... A new Elizabethan Age," warned the Thunderer, "is in danger of becoming an incantation, a magician's hey presto, as if the nation's new stature could be established merely by proclaiming...
Buoyantly, Britons made final preparations for the dawning of their second Elizabethan...
...Americans, who brewed the Great Tempest. His demand for a sovereign conference of the world's leading powers (TIME, May 18) had fired his countrymen's imaginations, and in domestic terms at least, it was well timed to appeal to coronation-time sentiments about a second Elizabethan Age. Behind well-phrased compliments, Churchill had adroitly sniped at the U.S., berated the truce negotiators for dillydallying, taunted Washington for its unwillingness to meet the Russians face to face. He was on popular ground and he knew it, for Britons are fed up with playing second fiddle...