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...Mason was very, very funny." The professionals closed ranks behind the comedian: Writer-Producer Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H) returned eight times, and Mel Brooks announced that "nobody makes me laugh harder." Joe Papp, producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival, went further. When Donald Moffat appeared as Falstaff in Henry IV, Papp instructed him to "do it the Jackie Mason...
Bloom, in his third of six Charles Eliot Norton lectures, said that Shakespeare portrayed characters like Hamlet, Lear and Falstaff so realistically that he forever altered the expectations of readers and play audiences...
...result of Shakespeare's brilliant representation of characters is that many of the playwright's creations are fully implanted in modern notions, including the ideal of the Freudian parental authority in Lear, the disinterested seer and truth-finder in Hamlet, and the totally free man or superego in Falstaff...
...engaging one-man show, Acting Shakespeare, at the Charles Playhouse for the next three weeks, the actor performs soliloquies of some 20 characters, from Macbeth to Sir John Falstaff to Juliet Capulet. With parts from The Tempest, a romance, and several history plays, McKellen covers all the theatrical bases from tragedy to low comedy. He even throws in Sonnet XX, for poetic justice...
...puffing like a beached whale as he sports in the percales with a period piece named Augusta Cordell, estrous wife of a society figure. Renek never whitewashes the Boss, but he adds another dimension to the celebrated Thomas Nast drawings of Tweed as a vulture, a bloated moneybag and Falstaff. En route the author vigorously and accurately portrays his real hero: the city, with its teeming and angry slums, frantic mix of ethnic groups, riots, underworld schemers and high-level scandals, demonstrating that in New York, the more things change, the more they are the shame...