Word: elizabethans
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...single letter from Shakespeare is known to exist. Only one letter to him-a plea from a Stratford acquaintance for ?30-is on record. Such facts of his life as can be ascertained from Stratford town records and a handful of references to him by folk in Elizabethan London can easily be (and, in fact, are) completely set down in a few columns of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But for decades scholars have felt compelled to spin these few threads into an overblown fabric of speculation which the academic world charitably describes as literary biography. The latest offender is a brilliant...
...repertory project, first proposed by Seltzer early in November, will combine lectures and discussions with normal rehearsals. Stage managers set designers, costume designers, and lighting experts, as well as actors, will discuss acting problems in Elizabethan drama and technical and conceptual problems in all types of theater. The workshops will continue through rehearsals, Seltzer said, to increase the "education note" of productions...
...cousins, is a vintner, writer, and angel to assorted arts, leading a life as carefully modulated as a string quartet. He is the official French translator of British Playwright Christopher (The Lady's Not for Burning) Fry, and with his wife Pauline is translating into French the Elizabethan poems of Herbert, Herrick, Wyatt, Drayton and Sir Philip Sidney. His daughter Philippine, 28, is an actress on the French stage, and his niece Nicole, 39, produces films. In Israel, Guy's sister Bethsabee, 49, has set up a crafts industry for refu gees, is the prime financial force behind...
...those in the stacks researching his book. He seems to have done it. Besides teaching the second half of English 125, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Seltzer is supervising the Quadricentennial program, will direct Julius Caesar, act in King Lear, and is writing a book on the styles of Elizabethan acting...
...greatest innovation of the new project will be lectures given by Seltzer and other members of the Faculty Committee on Drama. Stage managers, set designers, and lighting experts, as well as actors, will participate in discussions on acting problems in Elizabethan drama and on the technical and conceptual problems of all types of theater. These workshops will continue through rehearsals, Seltzer commented, increasing the "educational note" of productions...