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...newly extended apron stage (designed to achieve neo-Elizabethan intimacy), see a forgettable version of Two Gentlemen from Verona mounted on a revolving stage, a tricked-up Twelfth Night, and a fine Taming of the Shrew, starring Peggy Ashcroft. ¶ Ontario's Stratford, a 1953 offshoot of England's, and heavily Anglicized in cast and directors, was originally housed in a huge tent, eight miles from the town of Shakespeare; the festival moved indoors-in 1957, and its parasol-roofed theater makes Ontario's the only Stratford with true arena staging. More a purist than a tourist...
...have the overriding merit of bringing Shakespeare alive for huge audiences. The actors and directors are not smug; seesawing between Shakespeare straight and Shakespeare as straight-man, they remain as restlessly dissatisfied as their customers are satisfied. Above all. the Stratfords have recaptured some of the fluidity of the Elizabethan theater, in which the "two hours' traffick of our stage" was literally true, since scene followed scene without break, and the scenery might be no more than a placard reading "A Wood Near Athens" (see cut). To judge by the traffick rush to the Stratfords, today's audiences...
...life was a very Shakespearean mixture of the familiar and the strange, of petty peace and dark tragedy, acted out against the incomparable backdrop of the Elizabethan Age. Young Will had a far better family background, and probably far better schooling, than the anti-Shakespearean theorists usually concede. The Shakespeares were Warwickshire farmers, but Will's father, ambitious John, moved to Stratford and became a glover. He was one of the town's official aletasters, and donned the scarlet robes of high bailiff, or mayor, when Will was four. The boy presumably went to Stratford's King...
...Fall based on Jessica's chronicle. There is even a Waughlike Mitford uncle who was the author of one book, a privately printed volume of his letters to the London Times and other publications, notably on the subject of manure; his notion was that the greatness of Elizabethan Eng land was due to the widespread use of sheep droppings in producing an organically based diet and thus a sound society. But more than the shortage of sheep droppings is needed to explain the anemia of English society between the general strike of 1926 and World...
...some twist of mind or diet, the inhabitants of Trinidad speak English in a way that startles and delights the ear. They have this in common with nonprofessional speakers of Irish English (the barroom Irish of Manhattan's Third Avenue are tedious professionals) and with the talkers of Elizabethan England, if their playwrights bear true witness. In writing about such magnificent lingoists, color threatens to overwhelm shape, as it very nearly did in Naipaul's roguish first novel, The Mystic Masseur. In these sketches about Port of Spain, he lets shape find its own way home. This makes...