Word: shakespeareanisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad or even Shakespearean Scots the witches talked, but operatic Italian. They hailed him as "Macbetto, di Glamis Sire! . . . Macbetto, di Candor Sire! . . . Macbetto, di Scozia Re!". He was Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, King of Scotland-and hero of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi which was last given in Manhattan in 1850. This Mediterranean Macbeth, revived by Mrs. Lytle Hull's New Opera Company (TIME, Oct. 27), made a stirring music drama. Able Fritz Busch conducted...
...Robert Lord) and direction (Irving Rapper), with a big and superior cast. It also has the one essential ingredient it had to have: the right man to play Pastor Spence. Backed up by the superbly restrained performance of delicate, big-eyed Martha Scott, Fredric March poses, postures, struts his Shakespearean dignity to his heart's sweet content. It is a first-rate job-possibly because in many a good minister there is a forgivable touch of theatrics...
Full of years and honors, rich in curious lore and master if lethal epigram, an archetype of the New England schoolmaster has crossed over to where the Shakespearean-Baconian controversy has long since been settled. No that it ever troubled George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney professor of English at Harvard University ("I will admit that Bacon wrote them if you will tell me who wrote Bacon"), for he had better use for his time. Jack Macy used to do an impersonation of Kittredge (in "Kitty's" presence), excoriating every known editor of Shakespeare. I have been too busy for the pawst...
Kitty's English 2 (six Shakespearean plays, great chunks of which had to be memorized) was one of Harvard's hardest courses and its best show. Kitty tolerated no coughing or sniffling during his lectures. Once, halfway through, he coughed himself. He pulled himself together, said, "I am sorry, gentlemen, I cannot go on," and marched out. He lectured by the hour on single lines of Shakespeare, missed not a syllable of the Bard's meaning...
...Gentlemen," he told his students, "I am not only the greatest living Shakespearean scholar, but the greatest student of Chaucer, also." To pedants surprised at his lack of a Ph.D., he retorted: "Who would examine me?" Once he went to Oxford to look up an obscure point of Shakespearean scholarship, was told: "There is only one man who can tell you that. He is a Harvard professor and his name is Kittredge...