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...American Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Conn., Exit 52 from the Connecticut Trunpike or Exits 51 or 53 from the Merritt Parkway--ED 7-4456 in Stratford) presents a repertory of three Shakespearean plays: Macbeth, As you Like It, and Troilus and Cressids, alternating Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8:30 p.m.; Wednesdays, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. Starring in the productions are Jessica Tandy as Lady Macbeth, Pat Hingle at Macbeth, and Kim Hunter as Rosalind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Guide to Summer Entertainment | 6/21/1961 | See Source »

...have been nominated along with a number of plays. But students see no reason for such a list, especially in its present form. "Half the plays on the list are unperformable by the present student body," Mirsky says. "How can they object to The Tempest and then put the Shakespearean plays they have on the list...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Actors, Directors Strongly Criticize Loeb's Administrative Organization | 5/11/1961 | See Source »

...peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that carbuncular Shakespearean scold, Thersites ("Lechery, lechery! Still wars and lechery"). Between the wailing and the railing, some valid points get made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Craven Idol | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

Edge deals with the basic stuff of drama -death, love, betrayal, loyalty and honor. But the Shakespearean richness of plot and prodigality with blood and tears is unmatched by a corresponding richness of language. The actors measure out their lives in coffee breaks. Cigarettes, coffee and apple pie (how eaten or refused) and tone of voice, rather than choice of words, become the idiom in which tragedy must express itself. In this. Edge is perhaps closer to the naturalistic convention than most prestigious art forms; the common man, after all, faces the crises of life with a First Reader vocabulary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Edgeville, U.S.A. | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

...unmistakable identifying mark on their work. It may be smaller than theme or plot or character; often it is apt to be a recurring vignette, a typical moment. In Greek tragedy, that moment is the hero smiting his brow, discovering a new wrinkle in Fate's design. The Shakespearean moment, in the tragedies, is the restoration of order after individual or civil turmoil; in the comedies, it is the lover's mistaken identity. In Ibsen, it is self-doubt besetting the stolid bourgeois; in Strindberg, it is a shrill cry of female hysteria; in Shaw, it is paradoxical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Comedy | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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