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Like the Bard, pre-Bach music is not to be forgotten. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries-Thomas Morley, William Byrd, Tobias Hume, John Wilbye, John Dowland-Pro Musica shook the dust off a score of Elizabethan madrigals and lute songs, embellishing the rarefied melodies with a rhythmic liveliness and delicate twining of voices and instruments to produce, in Shakespeare's words, "sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not."-See Music, The Ancient's Mariner...
Together, the Burtons read T. S. Eliot's Portrait of a Lady, which, in case you have forgotten, Mother, starts off with a quote from an Elizabethan play: "Thou has committed fornication, but that was in another country." You see what I mean about courage...
...oaths and the pageant of the Nine Worthies, are really funny pieces of stage business. (It's good to hear laughter in the Loeb after a spring of tragedy.) One might object that the first act is a bit slow or that the costumes are Napoleonic not Elizabethan, but such things matter little. In the hands of the Loeb players, "Love's Labour's Lost" is a frothy and fun beginning to the summer season...
Tasty Contract. Elizabethan literature roils with legalisms-Jonson's plays are filled with far more legalese than Shakespeare's-but the Bard's characters have as effective counsel as any. Henry IVs plotters do not just plan to split their loot (the realm); like law clerks, they aver that "our indentures tripartite are drawn" and "sealed interchangeably." In Sonnet 35, the poet acts against himself as a friend's defender: "Thy adverse party is thy advocate." In Sonnet 46, a fair lady is partitioned-her lover's heart the plaintiff, his eye the defendant...
Daniel Seltzer, acting director of the Loeb and the director for Julius Caesar, said that both plays will be produced in the traditional Elizabethan style. The Loeb stage will be extended forward so the audience surrounds it on three sides...