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STRATFORD, Conn.--It is not often that sets and costumes merit the first and highest praise in a Shakespearean production, but the current Twelfth Night on view at stratford is certainly one instance. The dramatist laid the play in Illyris near the Adriatic coast; but the locale is of no particular import, and Will Steven Armstrong decided to make this romantic comedy a little more exotic by pushing it into a Near East such as Elizaebthans might have envisioned...
...Anthony's part, he could be forgiven. But it is misunderstanding and distortion, and that cannot be condoned. He has failed to realize that 2 Henry IV is not an isolated work, but a segment of a carefully wrought continuum. Admittedly, he is not alone. A number of Shakespearean scholars who ought to know better maintain that 2 Henry IV is just a rewrite of 1 Henry IV. The names of the characters do remain the same, but the people themselves undergo change -- and the later play is permeated with physical and spiritual disease. Shakespeare was not writing the usual...
...hero's metaphysical underpinnings have been giving way for centuries. Professor George M. Harper of the University of North Carolina points out that "the Greek and Shakespearean concept of the hero as an essentially noble man created in the image of his Creator and sharing his attributes is no longer possible." The decline began, Harper suggests, with Copernicus and Galileo, who demonstrated that the earth was not the center of the universe and that man is therefore not the center of creation. Darwin described man as a pawn of evolution, Freud as a puppet of the unconscious, Marx...
...ordi nary engraved white cards. The rea son was that Amanda-darling, daughter of Mrs. William S. Paley, and Susan, bright offspring of MCA Founder Jules Stein, got a couple of dozen beautiful young people to show up at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in "nude" fashions inspired by Shakespearean heroines and created for the occasion by U.S. and European designers...
...finally decided to take no chances-perhaps in honor of the fact that she has been named the Best Dressed Woman in America. "I do love the new things, but I think my husband [a fledgling lawyer] might object," she said. So she picked out a real Shakespearean number with long sleeves, high lace collar and floor-length hoop skirt from the festival's storage shop...