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...they had for 340 years, the Yeomen of the Guard, in white Elizabethan ruffs, flat hats with rosettes, and red-&-gold uniforms, poked tasseled halberds into corners of Westminster cellars, in the traditional "search" for conspiratorial descendants of Catholic Plotter Guy Fawkes...
...Comparative Literature 3a, where meetings every other Wednesday afternoon have seen the readings of Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" and Sophoeles' "Antigone," the dramatic effect is achieved, it is said, despite the weaknesses of translation. Both the Elizabethan and Greek performances are models that might be copied not only by drama courses, but by all classes in poetic literature. The use of recordings, of readings, and of full-scale theatrical productions can solidify and shape subjects that suffer in their current linear presentation...
...Duchess of Malfi (by John Webster; adapted by W. H. Auden; produced by Paul Czinner), though one of the most famous of Elizabethan dramas, received its first Broadway production in 88 years. From a theatrical standpoint, there were possibly reasons to explain the delay. For all its magnificent flashes of drama and snatches of poetry, The Duchess moves slowly, mounts uncertainly, lets its fire go out between quick, bright blazes. It lacks, too, the humanity that a Shakespeare could fuse with horror; Webster's tale of the rich, widowed young Duchess who remarries in secret, fearing her rapacious brothers...
...tone, in large measure, remained Elizabethan. Costumes were sober; the dim-lighted sets were mainly just drapes of black and grey, so readily shifted for change of scene that the play flowed pauselessly as fate itself to its blood-slippery conclusion. The cast, down to the minor roles, played with assurance and conviction. Head & shoulders above this excellent support stood the Hamlet of Louis-Jean Barrault, onetime pantomimist and cinemactor, and a brilliant renegade from the Comedie Française. Barrault's Hamlet was real, immediate, full-bodied, and above all intelligent...
Miss Webster, who by now is an old hand at producing Shakespeare, has still not mastered the job. She has attempted to tie loose historical ends together with two speeches by a chorus-like character who informs the audience by a homespun Elizabethan intonation of what is happening. And she has aggravated the injury of the famous pre-curtain eulogy to Queen Elizabeth by humorously poor staging...