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GREAT LAKES SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Lakewood Civic Auditorium, Lakewood, Ohio. Here a more traditional As You Like It features Maria Lennard, formerly of the Bristol Old Vic company, as Rosalind (July 9-15); Macbeth and his extremely active wife are played by Britishers Stephen Scott and Maureen Harley (July 17-27); and Troilus and Cressida stars Scott as Hector (Aug. 14-Sept. 11). A Shavian touch is added by Candida with Celeste Holm and Wesley Addy (July...
...pleasant, jug-eared young man of 20 who likes to fly planes, drive sports cars, play the trumpet and the cello, and who once delivered a very creditable Macbeth on a school stage, Charles is stuck in history. It is his blessing and his burden to be destined to become Charles III, the 41st sovereign of England since the Norman invasion. He will inherit a throne that, for all the erosion of empire and the straitened circumstances of the scepter'd isle, remains the most prestigious in the world...
...Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters. -Macbeth...
...Milan's La Scala are at least as high. More exciting days, though, may be ahead. Next year Bernstein and the Viennese stage director Otto Schenk will collaborate on a new production of Fidelio. Also scheduled are expensively mounted revivals of Verdi's Macbeth, Gluck's Iphigénie and such relatively little-known works as Smetana's Dalibor and Gottfried von Einem's Der Prozess...
...Baconian acrostics in Shakespeare's works) and its bitter little embryos spying from their natural nooks upon the love life of their parents." Nabokov may yet get his wish to see Shakespeare in heaven, laughing at Freud (in hell, naturally) for his bad interpretations of Hamlet, Lear and Macbeth. But how much comfort the scene would give him is debatable. From Nabokov's point of view, the electrical and chemical control of the brain, which seems to be rendering Freudian theory irrelevant, will hardly help the freedom of the individual imagination...