Word: kingships
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...Richard's weakness, Ian Richardson plays the King as a kind of drag queen. This is disastrous. The epicene approach robs the audience of the pity it should feel for Richard's painful self-knowledge in adversity, and mutes his ringing defense of the divine prerogatives of kingship: "The breath of worldly men cannot depose the deputy elected by the Lord...
...then became utterly ruthless in pressing for his execution. Nor of why, only months before his own death, this driven, self-doubting man of God came within a few hours of accepting the crown himself-only to settle for the protectorship, with nearly all the perks and palaces of kingship...
...Crown Matrimonial, British Playwright Royce Ryton qualifies as one of the grounds keepers of history. He rakes up a pile of yellowed 1936 newspaper clippings to reassemble the tale of how Edward VIII abdicated his kingship in order to marry "the woman I love...
James Earl Jones seems to know a good deal about kingship but very little about old age. His King Lear at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park has a certain grandeur in the early portions of the work, a ground base of reasonable outrage over the lèse-majesté of his elder daughters. Yet the eccentricities of age-the sudden frets and pets, the false starts, queer hesitations and erratic humors of senility-are only rarely present...
...Proxmire "the Giant Killer" is in line for kingship if the David and Goliath story has political significance...