Word: othellos
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...very favorable community reaction to last summer's Brattle productions of Othello, Henry IV, Part 1, and Much Ado About Nothing...
Haliday went down to New York and in a short time had rounded up much of the old troupe--many of whom gave up better-paying jobs to return to the Brattle. Once again, the season was artistically successful--both Henry IV, Part I and Othello made two-week stands at New York's City Center. And once again, it was a financial flop, just as Haliday and the other organizers had realized it would...
...France was not quite ready for Romanticism. When a British company came over with Othello, the pit howled: "Down with Shakespeare! Just one of Wellington's toadies!" Only six years later, "the atmosphere had completely changed." An artistic revolution had changed France from the last outpost of Classicism to a spearhead of Romanticism. Shakespeare was all the rage, closely followed by Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Schiller. France's poets, painters, sculptors and novelists all joined hands in this insurrection, but one and all acknowledged as their leader one of literary history's most spectacular figures-Victor-Marie...
...hitch a buckboard to a diesel. City thoughts from the 20th century keep popping out of these hayseed heads like fireplugs out of the prairie; and toward the climax, when Borgnine goes berserk with jealousy, the moviegoer may get a weird sensation that he is watching a production of Othello in ranch pants...
...life, it was then one of the least participated in--and least regarded--of the many extra-curricular activities at the College. The Harvard Dramatic Club, the acknowledged leader of student drama since its inception in 1908, was in bad financial shape after a barren year in which othello was its only production. There were other organizations to be sure --The Hasty Pudding was still attracting its certain audience; and two very localized House Groups, the Lowell House Opera Society and the Winthrop House Music Society...