Word: maturest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes to see it because the Romeo is good, or stays home because he isn't. Everything centers on its not quite 14-year-old heroine; for lady stars, Juliet is a final goal and often a graveyard. There is a double hazard: the part demands the maturest art, must convey the most dewy fragrance...
...rest, the production merits respect for its determination to be serious rather than showy. Unfortunately, much of it seems commonplace, passionless, unbreathed upon. King Lear contains half a dozen roles stamped with Shakespeare's maturest genius. But the production is a tangle of acting styles-an Edmund sinuous as an Oriental dancer, a Goneril straight out of melodrama; perhaps only Martin Gabel's blunt, forthright Kent keeps its outline. Round the play's great lonely poetic peaks roar the cold winds of human evil and malign fate, the bleak message that...