Word: elizabethans
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...most moving scenes in Shakespeare, Falstaff was killed off. To replace him, his pal, Pistol, the quintessential burlesque of the Elizabethan soul, was played far down to the groundlings...
Next came folk singers Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Burl (Blue Tail Fly) Ives and Woody (Ballads from the Dust Bowl) Guthrie, and jazz purists like Pianist Mary Lou Williams and Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and guitar-strumming Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet, singing Elizabethan love lyrics. His best sellers: Burl Ives, and an album of American country dances...
...edition has sought the simplicity and clarity of the King James version without its often obscure Elizabethan quaintness. Gone are "thee" and "thou" except where God is addressed. Gone are such phrases as "is come," "would fain," such words as "divers" and "privily...
...production is one of the best Boston has seen in years, despite a somewhat obtrusive score by Raymond Scott. John Houseman's direction and Robert Edmond Jones; scenery, costumes, and lighting are both intelligent and imaginative; the contrast between settings and costumes is almost a throwback to Elizabethan times, for where producer Michael Myerberg has spent a fortune of a wide assortment of gaudy costumes, the scenery is composed almost entirely of various curtain backdrops...
Reviving tradition as completely as possible under present crowded conditions, Lowell House will present this evening lie first Elizabethan comedy since 1941. A virtually unexpurgated production of Thomas Middleton's bawdy "A Chaste Maid of Cheapside," with a cast of 16, will be given at 7:30 o'clock in the dining room and will be open to House members only. The yearly dinner, with candlelit tables, Yule log ceremony, and carols will be held on Monday night...