Word: shakespearean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Civic Repertory Theatre as an opportunity for presenting Romeo and Juliet. Generally content with a small part and the direction of her company, Eva LeGallienne this time took upon herself one of the title roles. The performance had a somewhat Bohemian disregard for the usual trappings of Shakespearean drama. The text, trimmed, sounded unusually businesslike curt, direct...
...figurines, the lovers absurd, and even the well-photographed scenes, such as the Paris mob singing the "Marseillaise," the carpenters working on the scaffold, the march to the palace, the fight with the palace guards, are spoiled by bad detail. The carpenters, for instance, have the enunciation of experienced Shakespearean actors. The marching mob, supposed to be recruited from the slums, all have the same kind of torches, as though their supplies for the attack on the palace had been issued by a circus property-room. Silliest shot: John Boles getting Laura La Plante out of the dungeon...
...White gift to Harvard consisted mainly of Shakespearean quartos, of which Mr. White had a very fine collection. The greatest collections of Shakespearean quartos are in English libraries, such as the British Museum. Even in this country, however, Harvard does not hold first place. The best authority in this field is the book compiled by Bartlett and Pollard, "A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto." This census of quartos, published by the Elizabethan Club at Yale, again indicates the superiority of the H. C. Folger collection. Out of a total of 886 quartos described in detail, Mr. Folger owns...
...thus seen that no matter whether Shakespearean folios or quartos be considered. Mr. Folger leads all others by a rather wide margin. In my opinions however, the chief-glory of the Folger collection lies in its ownership of the Gwynne copy of the 1619 volume. This unique copy is in its original binding. Containing nine plays, it precedes the first folio by four years, and is really the first collected edition of Shakespeare. John L. Kable...
Fritz Leiber and the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society. There are two schools of thought about Shakespearean productions. One holds that unless their splendors approach perfection, it is better to stay home and read the plays. The other insists that the great Shakespearean characters were meant to be seen and heard, that anyone who resists their appearance in the flesh, even though that flesh be pocked with imperfections, can be no true fancier of the drama...