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...JACOBEAN PLAYWRIGHTS took their violence seriously. Their morals were usually straightforward enough, but when it came time to rivet the message solidly in the audience's mind, nothing worked like a little blood. Murder, ghosts, mutilation, alchemy, infidelity: these were the playwright's moral tools, and they incidentally made for spectacular theater as well...
...first issue of Maledicta ("bad words" in Latin) is now in the hands of 1,480 subscribers who pay $10 per year. It contains scholarly dissertations on such subjects as Yiddish insults, scurrilous Elizabethan and Jacobean sexual metaphors, and Latent Accusative Tendencies in the Skopje Dialect. Other articles include a bracing harangue by Aman himself, directed at academics who do not appreciate his life's work ("biodegradable nitwits" and "cacademoids," a neologism formed from "academic" and the baby-talk word for feces, "caca"). The coat of arms of his International Maledicta Society is a 3,000-year-old obscene...
Antonin Artaud's The Concl, was written by the man who coined the "theater of cruelty" movement. And the story of The Concl, a murderous, incestuous Roman family of the late sixteenth century, is certainly cruel enough (Shelley used it when he wanted to write a blood-and-thunder Jacobean verse drama). Director Phill Hass is usually good at bright more or less esoteric Continental playwrights to English audiences, and The Concl should be a worthwhile evening. At Lehman Hall, tonight, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and next weekend...
This production of The Alchemist is one of the few Harvard productions that have grown out of academic work. Mark Mosca, who directed it, took English 125 "Elizabethanand Jacobean Dramatists," and went to the Harvard Dramatic Club with a proposal to do Jonson's masterpiece, Bartholomew Fair, Bartholomew Fair is not nearly as well-known as The Alchemist, and is much more difficult to stage, to the HDC chose the sure-fire-alternative. The HDC has been rewarded with packed houses, but settled for an evening with no surprises for anyone--with a good cast, perceptive direction, and an appreclative...
...words, his ecstatic visions of gluttony. All his appetites--gustatory and sexual--are to be fulfilled by the Philosopher's Stone, but even these pleasure, poignantly, pull after a while. All he can think of to do with the phoenix once captured is eat it. He is a Jacobean Bernie Cornfeld, spreading the gospel of "Be rich!" and he receives the perfect come-uppance--he can have his money back only if he'll admit in public what he was trying...