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...Smith '43, writes of a time he knows; he is currently completing a dissertation for a Harvard Ph.D. about an unpublished Elizabethan manuscript...
...often Elizabethan works are staged in a spirit of resignation, as if their plots are so remote or meandering that it is futile to emphasize anything but "the poetry." (Most directors who do realize that dramatic poetry cannot exist without drama, go to the other extreme and delineate plot-line until nothing is left of the text but a Hymarx outline.) The current production strikes a fitting balance: Webster's language is respected while his tale of murder and intrigue is played to the hilt...
...endowed by her creator with certain inalienable wrongs, among them five legs, seven elbows and 423 teeth. In one episode, she shows up as a harem girl to end all harems, and she almost saves the show when she whips out her trusty little recorder and shyly tootles an Elizabethan ditty called Woe Is My Bosom Friend, Lackaday...
Smooth, clear and professional, the Central Park group offers, in the words of Elizabethan Scholar Marchette Chute, "bright, swift Shakespeare, overacted, rather like a poster, as it has to be out of doors; the great thing is that it brings Shakespeare back to his original, wonderfully motley audience." And it brings him back for nothing. In six seasons, Producer Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival has played to more than 600,000 people, never charging admission...
Jets rising from Idlewild often drop their whining anapests into the flow of Elizabethan iambs. But Shakespearean effects can also be heightened by outdoor production. During one festival performance of Macbeth, deep grey thunderheads compiled themselves overhead as Birnam wood moved to high Dunsinane hill; the branches of the plane trees around and above the stage began to sway and whip; and when Macbeth finally faced Macduff on the ramparts, it was a battle fought in lightning and horizontal rain...