Word: shakespeareanly
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When we think of Shakespearean productions, our minds usually turn to the Stratford-on-Avon Festival and the Old Vic. These are now established institutions; the former began on the play-wright's tercentenary in 1864 and after rough sledding has continued as we know it from 1879, while the Old Vic has been a home for Shakespeare since...
...will then be toured during the rest of the year--thereby bringing Shakespeare to many parts of the country and providing extended employment for the actors, actresses and staff; and, in addition, to have an ancillary school, where the youngest talents of today can be helped to become leading Shakespearean practitioners of tomorrow...
Melville's dark, brooding tale has been boiled down to a tasteless mash, and Ahab's ranting Shakespearean soliloquies are gone altogether. The scraps of dialogue that remain are largely Melville's, but they rattle unconvincingly in the mouths of hollowed-out characters. Writes the editor: "The sentence structure and punctuation have been simplified. In some instances, for the sake of clarity, rearrangement of the Moby Dick sequence of events was made. Words of infrequent use and unfamiliar terms were screened; questionable words were checked in Thorndike's The Teacher's Word Book...
They seem to share a capacity not only for poking fun at folly but also for turning passing sorrow inside out. Standing in for Sullivan, Wayne and Shuster skittered nimbly through a confused-identity routine, belted out a metrically sound skit about a Shakespearean baseball team. Shrilled Catcher Wayne to a myopic umpire: "So fair a foul I have not seen. Accursed knave with heart as black as coat you wear upon your back! Now, for the bum thou art, stand'st thou revealed! Thy head is emptier than Ebbets Field...
...Dramatic Club a student will probably act in more "great plays" than he will ever read for English class. The group performs a Shakespearean work each year, and the senior class play is traditionally a serious drama...