Word: elizabethans
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...right in assuming that the play itself was enough to hold one's attention. When there is action on stage, as in the dueling scenes, if it is never quite convincing, it is at least not ludicrous. Lee's set was simple, even elegant, a very good approximation of Elizabethan conditions. Modern-ness was reduced to the necessities, like lighting and a few silly stools that people kept dragging...
...House production; the cast had fun; even if the audience was never pushed to the heights of its emotions, at least it was convinced that being an adolescent in Elizabethan England was no easier than it is nowadays...
Early in the book, for example, the reader meets a pubescent lad who talks Elizabethan. Asked when his parents will return from the movies, he replies: "Not till the witching hour methinks, or worse. For no more will th' embattled hombres make their peace in the mesa'd West, their smoking armaments put by, than Cary Grant will post him through such feats as Hitchcock doth concoct." Pretty chilling, but De Vries really sets in a little later when a maiden solemnly informs her swain that "It would be terrible to be regarded as a child-bearing machine...
Suggestions for next year include selections in six categories: Elizabethan, Shakespeare, Modern classics, opera, experimental, and light musical. One of each kind will be presented...
...convention could give back to the Legislature its rightful authority over taxation that the constitution now restricts very tightly. Like the counties and the Governor's Council, archaic limitations on taxation resemble, in the words of a commission several years ago, "a building with a Renaissance frame and a Elizabethan facade." They will require comprehensive, not patchwork reform, and probably only a constitutional Convention could erect such a structure suitable for the 20th century...