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Between Stratford-upon-Avon and the Old Vic, he has delivered some nine or ten major Shakespearean performances, including a shining Prince Hal, a superb lago, and the definitive Coriolanus...
Last season Shakespearean plays in German were performed 2,396 times on 112 stages in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. By contrast, J. W. von Goethe, the German Shakespeare (who is not terribly popular in England, the U.S., Australia, Canada or New Zealand), ran a poor second. In the three countries, 86 theaters staged his plays last season in 1,980 performances. The chief reason is A. W. von Schlegel, a German writer whose stunning translations of Shakespeare were completed in 1840. He was such an accomplished poet himself that people who know both languages often claim that the German versions...
Noted as a Shakespearean scholar, Seltzer has acted extensively himself, including a portrayal of Ulysses in Treilius and Cressida, the first play ever to be produced at the Loeb...
...manner of a man alternately caught in a revolving door and staggering blind drunk out of a bar. Finally he expires, with a line that promises to become deathless. "Now is steel 'twixt gut and bladder interposed." His adversary asks the rhetorical question most often put to Shakespearean corpses: "Oh saucy Worcester, dost thou lie so still...
Double Choice. Unlike the usual "popularizer" of science, Eiseley is himself a scientist who commands the respect of his colleagues. Yet as a boy in Lincoln, Neb., he seriously considered becoming a poet. He got his love of language from his father, a little-known Shakespearean actor. His passion for science was roused by roaming the plains of western Nebraska, one of the world's finest Tertiary fossil beds. But anthropology alone seemed too narrow a field to his roaming mind, and he also studied biology and sociology in trying to understand the nature of man. After graduating from...