Word: iv
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, we left at eleven-twenty; by that time Orson Welles' "Five Kings" had got through the whole of Henry IV Part One, and up to the crowning of Henry V in Part II; some people said that Henry V made a third act, also, but we had to get home in time to milk the cows...
Five men were elected as representatives of the various divisions to the temporary Executive Board yesterday. They are Harry P. M. Brown '41, Literary; James Laughlin IV '39, General Educational; Lawrence A. Radway '40, Social Sciences; George W. Phillips '39, Music; and S. Roger Sheppard '40, Technical
...Henry IV, Part I (by William Shakespeare; produced by Maurice Evans). Though Henry IV contains the greatest comic figure in English literature, it has been produced on Broadway only once (for a week in 1926) in 43 years. One reason: the whole play cannot be performed in a single evening; another: Falstaff is not only the greatest but the fattest of comic figures, and a severe physical strain on any actor who, all padded and stuffed, impersonates him. For that weighty reason, Maurice Evans announced he would play Falstaff for only four weeks...
There are other reasons than Falstaff why Henry IV* is richly worth reviving. One of Shakespeare's most vigorous and varied chronicle plays, it rings with martial clamor, abounds in striking personages, lights up momentous times. In Part I, the rebellion of the Percys and their confederates against Henry IV opposes the heedless, gallant Hotspur to the cooler, better-balanced Prince Hal. There is rousing theatre in Hotspur's eloquent defiance; warmth in his half-boyish, half-intense love scene with his wife; pathos in his death...
...plot, Henry IV poses the cool Hal against the fiery Hotspur; but for theme it poses Hotspur against Falstaff, contrasting on a mighty scale the romantic and realistic ways life. To great-hearted Hotspur honor is everything. But Falstaff asks: "Can honor set to a leg? . . . Honor hath no skill in surgery then? . . . Who hath honor?-he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. . . . Therefore I'll none of it." So Falstaff lives; and Hotspur dies...