Word: shakespeareanisms
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...some tense moments with the former President. But she does not regret the experience (she and Nixon still correspond regularly): "I knew that being out there with him was going to be a seminar the likes of which one could never attend. I had a real sense of the Shakespearean, dark history that I was going to be a minor character...
...role in that Shakespearean drama caused something of an uproar at CBS, when, shortly after leaving Nixon in 1978, she was given a reporter's job by Washington bureau chief William Small. Several correspondents, including Rather, openly expressed opposition to her hiring. "Conversations would stop as I entered the room," she recalls...
...minds of theatergoers. Brilliance, for once, had its rewards. As critic Kenneth Tynan proclaimed in 1966, "Laurence Olivier at his best is what everyone has always meant by the phrase 'a great actor.' " Director, producer, prime mover of Britain's National Theater, embodier of the most vital Shakespearean heroes, Olivier at his death last week at 82 held undisputed claim to yet another title: the 20th century's definitive man of the theater...
...high portion of the Roman wall that once encircled Londinium forms part of the basement wall of a new office building; pedestrians peek in through sidewalk windows. Allowing the Rose, the only Elizabethan theater ever discovered, to disappear once again sounds like the stuff of a Shakespearean tragedy. "Replicas of Elizabethan theaters are being built everywhere," observes actor Ian McKellen, "but this is the real thing, and you don't throw away the real thing...
Based on Levine's account, the answer, in part, seems to be that American cultural behavior was genuinely different in the early to mid-19th century. Urban workers did spend their free time listening to theater performances which included magic tricks, physical comedy and Shakespearean soliloquys. Bands larger than current ensembles but smaller than full-fledged orchestras would perform both classical music and popular ditties. In the case of Shakespeare, Levine cleverly demonstrates how well people knew the Bard's works by providing examples of the careful, complex parodies of Shakespeare's plays that were performed in the mid-19th...