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...party has no room for workers without "the zest that must be an essential part of our appeal." And in a closed meeting with Tory backbenchers, the Prime Minister zestfully echoed another knife-wielding Mac known for his ruthless ambition. Defending the suddenness of his massacre, Macmillan said with Macbeth: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly...
Close your eyes, you say. That doesn't help, for her Shakespearean diction is monotonous, and she shows not the slightest grasp of the music and rhythm of the lines. She ruins Lady Macbeth's crucial "We fail?" and, as Portia, she delivers "The quality of mercy is not strained" as a question. What on earth is one to make of that...
Sticking his right hand under his tuxedo jacket behind his back is not enough to create the malevolent, hunchbacked Richard III. Nor has he the brio for Henry V. In Macbeth's "If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'were well/It were done quickly," etc., he follows the idiotic example of Kemble, Macready and Irving by making a full stop after 'well' and joining the rest to the next sentence. And from time to time to time Warren Enters, the director, allows Evans to lapse into his annoying mannerism of indulging in quavering drops of pitch at-phrases' ends...
Stratford, Ont., Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, The Taming...
Stratford, Ont., Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, The Tempest and The Taming of the Shrew, plus The Gondoliers...