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STRATFORD, Conn.--Let me confess at once that, of all plays in world literature, Macbeth is the one that enthralls me most. I do not claim it is the greatest play--or even Shakespeare's greatest play. After all, the only source is the posthumous First Folio edition, which presents difficult textual problems and is several stages removed from the dramatist's original script. On the one hand, it certainly contains some passages that were foreign interpolations; on the other, it possibly lacks one or two scenes that the Bard originally included. As it stands, it is only about half...
...Pericles does not appear in either the First or Second Folio of Shakespeare; it was first published under his name in 1609. This is not conclusive evidence that the play is not his, but it points in that direction. Certainly the finale is Shakespearean, but the first two acts of the play are so inept that they could hardly be authentic. In any case, the Dunster House production of the play, which runs through this weekend, is probably the first since the Royal Shakespeare Company did it ten years ago, and may be the last for a long time...
...Atlantic) are tinged with tremolo. Sir Michael Redgrave, an esteemed former Old Vic Hamlet who plays Polonius in this TV production, says that, overall, "Richard is very good-more than just interesting." To fit the two-hour time slot, however, more massive surgery has been performed on the Folio than any that Kildare ever...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Salvador Dali. 150 pages in folio. Maecenas Press-Random House. $375. Questioned about his stature as a painter, Salvador Dali once remarked, "I consider myself a very mediocre painter [but] I'm a better painter than my contemporaries." John Tenniel isn't a contemporary, but the original illustrator of Alice still seems best. Although Dali's Mock Turtle is stupendous, most of the twelve lavish color illustrations and one original color etching are more evocative of Dali than Alice...
...rare books go, the First Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays (1623) is not very rare: probably about 1,000 copies were printed, and well over 200 are still in existence. Though the original folio copies are the most authentic texts of Shakespeare's works, scores of them differ in innumerable minor ways-they were printed in odd lots and badly proofread. Lately, scholars, equipped with a special electronic device for detecting textual variations, have coordinated all the various versions and now offer what they assert is the clearest and most accurate composite text ever. Presented in facsimile...