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Just once in a while there arrives a motion picture that forces one to admit that Twentieth-Century society has developed a magnificent artistic medium, worthy of comparison to Elizabethan drama or Russian fiction of the last century. Perhaps symbolically for our age, its finest examples are not attributable to one man, author, script-writer, producer, director, or the actors. If any of these fail, the movie cannot be first-rate, and that is very likely the most important reason why the percentage of excellent films is so small. "Great Expectations" is a great picture. No one factor made...
...alike turned the same way for the same reason. Witches might be good or bad (i.e., they might practice white or black magic, or a mixture of both), but it never occurred even to intelligent Europeans as late as Shakespeare's day to question their existence. The great Elizabethan savant, Dr. Dee, was as much on the alert for phony witchery as the Roman Catholic Church is for phony miracles, but Dr. Dee used "magic" (by royal request) to divine the most propitious day for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and spent most of his life peering into...
Continuing their ingenious methods of staging which produced the transept of Rheims Cathedral for "St. Joan," the VTW is planning to create in the Sanders Theatre a replica of the Elizabethan stage. For this purpose the present pit seats will be removed and the stage extended...
...Elizabethan Technique...
...addition the early English dress and the Shakespearean method of dramatization is designed to make the audience feel that it is witnessing an Elizabethan production. This follows the method which was used successfully in the film version of "Henry...