Word: othello
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kean play King Lear, said Coleridge, "is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." To see Alfred Drake, in his one lamentable lapse of the evening, act Othello is to read Shakespeare by the flash of a lightning bug. Drake is more than a star; he is a galaxy. Whether he is profile-preening for an expected lady love, slashing the air with his fencing foil, or parrying insults with the Prince of Wales, he has all the darkling dash, swagger and brio of a Renaissance man. He pours his voice like nut-brown ale through a melodic sieve...
...grimy East End of London, the only child of a Jewish tailor. He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School, where he admired an eccentric master with a wild passion for the theater who liked to throw inkwells out the window and strode the halls shouting lines from Othello...
...Hollywood-Olivier played Henry II against Arthur Kennedy's Becket. Olivier had always been intrigued by the part, and when Director Peter Glenville offered it to him for a short road tour, he grabbed it. Such switching is historical enough; Edwin Booth and Henry Irving once played Othello and lago back and forth for weeks...
...dining hall, Adams also an impressive, if far too brightly Othello. Daniel Seltzer, instructor English, directed and played the of Iago--much more slowly than had ever heard but very subtly. In title role, John W. Nathan '61 veyed a surprising amount of its and Judith Ogden '62 a more than adequate Desdemons...
...Shakespeare project, Partner Mantell went to London last summer to round up talent, much of it from the Old Vic and other repertory companies. Their curtain raiser is a moving and brilliant Macbeth, starring Anthony Quayle and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. The two-hour, two-record production was followed by Othello, with Cyril Cusack and Frank Silvera; and The Taming of the Shrew, with Margaret Leighton and Trevor Howard. Early next month: Sir John Gielgud's The Winter's Tale...