Word: katharina
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...naturally gravitates towards Miss Marlowe, who, after threatened retirement from the stage, is this fall gratifying New York and Boston with another appearance in Shakespearean repertoire. The qualities which have gained her so many admirers, Miss Marlowe today exhibits as gloriously as in past years. One might charge that Katharina does not kick and stamp, box ears, and throw household furnishings with the vim that one expects of a celebrated virago. Miss Marlowe has, undoubtedly, given us a subdued characterization; when one has felt her subtle power to illuminate feminine irrationality, one does not regret the omission of the conventional...
...Sothern's indomitable Petruchio is a match for twenty "lusty wenches" of Katharina's temper. From the time he swaggers into Padua with his father's fortune "happily to wine and thrive" to his winning of the wager at Lucentio's banquet, the audience feels the enthusiastic optimism and tough-skinned common sense of this wife tamer. He seems to enjoy so thoroughly his own sermons and bombasts that we can not but enjoy them with...