Word: lawbooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...splendidly in the Roman plays here last summer, is the most memorable feature of this Measure for Measure. Kerr is visually arresting--garbed in black, craggy of mien, and as completely bald as Sibelius. He provides a remarkable portrait of a strict-constructionist (who loves to carry a lawbook in his hand), of a principled man rather surprised at his own slide into treachery. In view of the play's "happy" ending. Kerr quite rightly makes Angelo not an arch-villain but a probably redeemable sinner. His soliloquies are exemplary. Telling too are his deliberate movements, his slow gait...