Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WORDS, WORDS, words," one might moan, like Hamlet to Polonius, about George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance. Nearly three hours of Shavian dialogue, however diverting, is a formidable experience. That it's also a pleasant one at the Loeb is a tribute to the author and the production...
...World Cup this summer has made it easier to stomach inflation and the defections of the politicians. Whether it is right in terms of the potential!ties of the human soul for people to think more of the kicking around of a chunk of leather than of Hamlet and Bach's B Minor Mass is a question best not argued. The Fussballweltmeisterschaft has brought nations together in unlethal rivalry, and that cannot well be shrugged off as a lot of fussball about nothing...
...Shakespearean stage, like our own, was cankered with financial woes and preoccupied with sex. Shakespeare produced more dubious double entendres than anyone before or since. Some are readily perceived: Hamlet's announcement, "Then came each actor on his ass," meant then what it does now. In the first Elizabethan world - when there were some 40 euphemisms for sexual organs (including will, dial and den)-almost every passage twinkled with lewdness. Like today's cheerless smut, the Elizabethan bawdiness was both deplored and exploited. The nonsexual slang has traveled with greater success: here are the witches in Macbeth, telling...
...legitimately interpreted as the Colonial Victim violated by Western Man. Kate, of The Taming of the Shrew, may succumb to Petruchio, but not before declaring herself the most eloquent women's liberationist. There is no father who can look upon Lear and Cordelia without pangs, and as for Hamlet, he is so real that he has been psychoanalyzed (and found Oedipal) by Freud's disciple, Ernest Jones...
Died. Blanche Yurka, 86, accomplished dramatic actress; of arteriosclerosis; in Manhattan. Yurka was acclaimed for decades for her stage portrayals of such classic figures as Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Shakespeare's Gertrude, which she played to John Barrymore's Hamlet. She also appeared in several films, most memorably as Madame De-Farge in A Tale of Two Cities...