Word: shakespearean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it conquers the limitations of stage and life, ranges wherever man's imagination takes him, unrestrained by time or space or experience. Nobody in the movie business ever realized cinema's possibilities more completely than elusive, gay, acrobatic Douglas Fairbanks, son of a Denver lawyer and Shakespearean expert...
...approached the door stealthily, stalking his prey. Coming nearer, he distinctly heard the great cadences and denouements of the speech of a great Shakespearean actor. The little man was doing great things with the famous soliloquy from "Hamlet." Vag has no idea why he did it, but he found himself knocking on the door. As he recalls it, he was going to ask if this were where someone named Smith lived. Now there was not a sound. The voice had halted abruptly with "...When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?". Vag tapped again--still no sound...
...themselves, whose subject is after all the whole world. One of the finest is the treatment of "The Tempest," of which its author says, "'The Tempest' does bind up in final form a host of themes with which its author has been concerned." What the play does for the Shakespearean canon, this essay does for the book which it brings to a lovely and harmonious close...
...dissimilar to his own. Independence is indeed the keynote of Mr. Van Doren's book. In putting behind him the apparatus and techniques of scholarship, he has dared to do what few other critics have done: he has come face to face with Shakespeare. He has recreated the Shakespearean world, and one would like to quote the entire book to show how well a wise, sensitive and exquisite mind has adventured among masterpieces...
...termination of the run in Boston, Miss Cornell plans to follow "No Time for Comedy" on a tour of the United States to the West Coast. Then she hopes to take a vacation, but says it is very possible that she will begin another performance -- probably a "bawdy" Shakespearean comedy--immediately...