Word: shakespeareanly
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...Antony and Cleopatra, but Caesar and Cleopatra has just joined the repertory of the American Shakespeare Festival--which thus, for the first time in its history, has staged a non-Shakespearean work (of this departure more anon...
...though there weren't enough plays to go around. Even if, as during this season, it is found feasible to present four instead of three plays, the Shakespearean canon is still sufficiently large. Can we not stand even Shakespeare's lesser works at least once a decade...
...side." Barton, whose past efforts range from the successful Hollow Crown of the past Broadway season to an abortive dramatization of Les Liaisons Dangereuses called The Art of Seduction, made no effort to emulate Shakespeare's unmatchable imagery. But his purely expository passages have a convincingly Shakespearean ring, as when he inserts these lines to emphasize the weakness of King Henry...
...fact, Night and Silence is not only a novel that can be read with pleasure as such, but an ingenious literary game in which the characters are given an extra dimension by association with their Shakespearean counterparts...
...milled on the macadam and roared at the famous faces in the glare. One by one, smiles popping like flashbulbs, they disappeared in the direction of the screen. What did it hold for them? Surely no Shavian conversation piece could conceivably have cost all that money. Surely no noble Shakespearean poem could possibly be recited by Elizabeth Taylor. No, Cleopatra was bound to be one of those colossal Things that periodically come charging out of the acetate jungle and gobble up millions of dollars. It was bound to be a superspectacle. But as such might it not prove as memorable...