Word: elizabethan
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...through their paces by Franco Zeffirelli, the irreverent Italian director who once did a modern-dress Hamlet in which the Dane intoned: "To be or not to be, what the hell!" Zeffirelli's notion is that Shrew is a walloping good story that audiences can eat up, the Elizabethan language of the script notwithstanding, and he predicts that the film "will go over well with a Walt Disney audience." In fact, he says, "we intend to make Shakespeare as successful a screenwriter as Abby Mann...
...aver that London is in the midst of a renaissance, that its theater is "in a second Elizabethan era." Nonsense. While it may be the world's pleasure capital, London smacks more of Las Vegas desperation than of Renaissance gusto. Compare the solitary John Osborne with Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and Webster. The contrast is humbling...
...have looked decadence in the face without seeing it. If London today reminds you of Shakespeare's London, why? Shakespeare's London was animated by patriotism born of the achievements of Elizabethan sea captains. What victories do Londoners celebrate today? All the turned-on young men and women will burn out as quickly as a light bulb of British manufacture...
...cheerful, violent, lusty town of William Shakespeare, one of whose happiest songs is about "a lover and his lass, that o'er the green cornfield did pass." It is no coincidence that critics describe London's vibrant theater as being in the midst of a second Elizabethan era, that one number on the Rolling Stones' newest LP is a mock-Elizabethan ballad with a harpsichord and dulcimer for accompaniment, or that Italian Novelist Alberto Mo ravia describes the British cinema today as "undergoing a renaissance...
...mind since before World War I, Foxe has now been reissued in a one-volume recension that includes all the principal passages and restores to general readership a work that, at this distance of time, can be read without religious prejudice as a neglected and horrendously compelling Elizabethan masterpiece...