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...frenzy of transcendental hyperbole, Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: "In climes beyond the solar road, this planet is probably not called Earth, but Shakespeare." Even a simple solar observer could supply Emerson with startling evidence this summer that all the world is, or shortly will be, a Shakespearean stage...
...opening Twelfth Night was greeted with morning-after queasiness by the critics: Illyria became a British seaside resort circa 1830, and most of the cast appeared to be on shore leave from H.M.S. Pinafore, including tremolo-prone Katharine Hepburn, an exponent of the Bryn Mawr school of Shakespearean diction. The Connecticut Stratfordians followed up with a becalmed Tempest. Expected later with some foreboding: Movie Actor Robert Ryan's Antony to Katharine Hepburn's Cleopatra...
...follows Part I into the Phoenix Theater with much the same general success. It is far less often performed than what is popularly regarded as its better half, but it ill deserves neglect. Beyond its own rich claim to recognition, it forms with Part I something vastly and variedly Shakespearean. The two Parts, moreover, are in organic relationship and poignant contrast. And though there is considerably less history in Part II, there is actually more history in the making...
Mellowing in retirement after some 40 years as chief of the United Mine Workers, Unionist John Llewellyn Lewis, 80, was slated to get proof that his former foes, the coal-mine operators, have mellowed along with him. Ready to honor Shakespearean Scholar Lewis at a banquet in Washington this week, the Consolidation Coal Co.'s Board Chairman George Love, acting on behalf of the operators, planned to present Lewis with a rare, 15-volume set of Shakespeare's plays. The books were published in 1793 and purchased from Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library...
Thus a capacity audience at Brussel's Royal Opera House was introduced to one of the most demented ballets ever staged: Choreographer Maurice Bejart's Such Sweet Thunder, set to music by Duke Ellington. Originally written for Canada's Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Thunder is a 14-part suite obscurely inspired by a line from A Midsummer Night's Dream: "I never heard so musical a discord, such sweet thunder." Ellington's musical rogue's gallery glimpses of Shakespearean heroes and heroines in turn inspired Choreographer Bejart to paste together a 45-minute dance work...