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Evidence suggests that All's Well lay underappreciated and unproduced in the First Folio for more than a century. The reasons are not hard to guess. Shakespeare gave his play the structure but not the spirit of a romance, and gave the leading female characters most of the good lines and gracious impulses. Commentators from Coleridge to Shaw have praised Helena and the Countess as among the "loveliest" and "most charming" of Shakespeare's heroines, while dismissing Bertram and Parolles as unworthy of the ladies' or our interest. By Act V, Helena's passion...
...taken the suggestion of several critics in moving the "To be or not to be" speech and the ensuing Nunnery Scene to an earlier spot right after the Fishmonger Scene--thus following the highly abridged First Quarto of 1603 rather than the fuller Second Quarto or First Folio. Even so, Coe placed Shakespeare's most famous soliloquy after the Nunnery Scene, and in fact makes it a part of the discourses. Thus it is no longer a solioquy, but is addressed directly to Ophelia, to whom Hamlet gives his dagger while speaking it. I suppose that this...
Adult pictures will continue to be made-because they look good in the folio, because they appeal to the social conscience of a studio boss, because they can be relatively inexpensive to produce and because, you never know, one or two of them might surprise everybody and go Golden. The problem is that Hollywood's most talented young directors are not interested in making movies that appeal primarily to adults. Instead, as Writer-Director Paul Schrader has noted, "they remake the movies they loved as kids...
There is no doubt that the work is authentic. The original 20-page, handwritten manuscript is stored at the University of Texas' Humanities Research Center at Austin, the main repository of Waugh's papers since 1967. U.T. Research Librarian Ellen Dunlap notes that the unbound folio of Schooldays bears the novelist's signature and the date Oct. 13, 1945. It is reasonable to assume that Waugh, flushed with Brideshead"s critical and popular success, decided to give a primed public more about Charles Ryder. Chapter 1 bears one piece of sad news: his mother was killed...
...effort to catalogue the papal treasures has been going on for more than 300 years now, and archivists still speak with awe of Cardinal Josephus Garampi, who managed, before his death in 1772, to inscribe more than 1.5 million catalogue entries, in strictly alphabetical order, in 124 large folio volumes. But since the millions of documents were all arranged by their places of origin rather than by subject matter, the problems of cross-indexing stretch toward infinity. And the staff numbers only 30. "If this were Germany," sighs one archivist, "we would have at least...