Word: lear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leiber and the Chicago Civic-Shakespeare Society. During his second week in Manhattan, Fritz Leiber added an energetic Jaques (As You Like It) and a mellifluous, rousing Mark Antony (Julius Caesar) to the rôles played during the first week (TIME, April 7). In the part of King Lear he gave all he had, more than enough to suggest the magnitude of the play...
Shakespeare's extremely carnivorous Richard III was presented last night at the Wilbur theatre by Fritz Leiber and his company before one of the largest audiences that has attended these performances since they have been in Boston. As in "Lear" the actor is here again presented with the problem of giving a play which has very little dramatic precedent, but the result did not particularly suffer from this. Mr. Leiber in the part of the unscrupulous and ambitious Duke of Gloster gives a very cold interpretation. There is no ranting passion and violent action, but merely the bloodless, calculating sneer...