Word: marlovian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means obvious that Shakespeare outwrote Marlowe. McKellen's Richard is Shakespeare's, full-strength and without eccentricity, a prince refined down to holy innocence, so that London Critic Harold Hobson could write that "the ineffable presence of God himself enters into him." In total contrast, his Marlovian Edward is a performance as hell-inspired as the red-hot poker that, at the conclusion, is used to murder the king by being rammed up his anus...
...somewhat less titanic roles, Madeline Rosten (Zabina) and Booker Bradshaw (Bajadeth) caught the Marlovian pitch and battered away at their lines with enough controlled volume and barbarity to enliven every moment they were on stage. They were the only members of the company with enough vocal power to really make use of what Marlowe gave them, and I will not soon forget the sovereign articulacy this pair displayed in the infamous "braining scene...
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