Word: othello
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talking records that would not talk down to their audience. Her partner: Barbara Cohen, a classmate at New York City's Hunter College. Last week, eight years and some 200 releases later, the latest Caedmon albums were on sale: three Shakespeare dramas, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, the opening installments of an impressive recording project. Within four years, the partners hope to produce 34 other plays, all with topnotch casts, adding up to the first complete professional Shakespeare on records...
...Richard III; 3) the Shakespearean jester, e.g., Touchstone; 4) Ariel (whose hand, trumpet and feet stuck out behind the cover slash); 5) Caliban; 6) Hamlet (with Yorick); 7) King Lear; 8) & 9) Antony and Cleopatra; 10) & 11) Petruchio and the shrew he tamed, Katharina; 12) Ophelia; 13) & 14) Othello and his ill-fated wife, Desdemona; 15) & 16) Juliet and Romeo; 17) a gravedigger from Hamlet; 18) & 19) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth; 20), 21) & 22) the three witches from Macbeth, stirring their boiling cauldron; 23) & 24) Bottom, the weaver, and Queen Titania under the influence of Puck...
...still my beating mind," he puts the fingers of both hands to his temples; few actors can bring this gesture off, but Carnovsky makes you know he has an attack of migraine. He can also bring sense and conviction to those vexatious little repetitions like "so, so, so" (Othello twice has to give out "O! O! O!," and Lear even expires saying "Never, never, never, never, never!"--as a matter of fact. Carnovsky would seem to be ready to attempt Lear next season; how about it, Festival managers...
...deaf-mute students of Washington, D.C.'s tiny Gallaudet College last year mimed Othello in sign language. Next year tribesmen in Southern Rhodesia will play Macbeth costumed as Zulu warriors in animal tails and feathers. As for his native England, the playwright's blessed plot resounds with Shakespeare, from the Old Vic to Regents Park, where the lyrics of The Tempest boom through stereophonic loudspeakers suspended from the trees...
...City's famed Astor Place riot, in which 22 people were killed. But in the U.S., too, touring companies were beset by moralizers, and as they played the Bard in gold-rush camps and over billiard rooms, the actors placated indignant religious sectarians by billing Othello as "a moral dialogue depicting the evil effects of jealousy...