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...player's performance and how much is the player's own. The director must here be held accountable for the actual text that is used--and Macbeth presents an unusually high number of textual problems. There are no Macbeth quartos; we have only the version in the First Folio, published some dozen and a half years after the play was written, and even this is a corrupt text. Furthermore, no other Shakespeare play has more lines that are ambiguous in their meaning...
...Miss Nye repeatedly lets her strong will go slack. Or take the small but vital moment that trips up so many actresses. Macbeth is reluctant to choose the path of murder and says, "If we should fail--," to which Lady Macbeth replies, "We fail"--two tiny words. The Folio punctuation is no clear guide here. The words admit three groups of interpretation, depending on whether they are regarded as being followed by a question mark, an exclamation point, or a period. Mrs. Siddons, history's most admired Lady Macbeth, tried all three and unwisely settled on the last. Miss...
...book, and her poetry achieved international renown. She was also the first person to apply the phrase "First in Peace" to George Washington, who wrote to her and praised her literary gifts highly. On a visit to London, she was presented by the Lord Mayor with a fine folio edition of Milton's Paradise Lost, which is now owned by Harvard's Houghton Library...
...Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, a first edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America went for $60,000. The four-volume "Elephant Folio," so called for its outsize format, contains 435 plates of U.S. fowl by the naturalist engraver. Only 129 sets are known to exist. The price nearly doubled the last sale of Audubon's Ele phant, which went in 1959 for $36,400. ¶At London's Christie's auction house, a 241-piece dinner service of 18th century tobacco-leaf Chinese porcelain sold for $97,000. Made under...
...would you believe that no-one connected with the production or the Festival Academy knows how to pronounce the name of Petruchio? Throughout the show it is invariably spoken with a k-sound, apparently by false analogy with Pinocchio. The Italian name is properly spelled Petruccio, and the Shakespeare Folio made it Petruchio precisely to provide a phonetic spelling for English-speaking actors. Thus it should be pronounced with a ch-sound as in "church." (The identical situation obtains with the name Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing.) Furthermore, Shrew's verse requires, except in three or four lines, that...