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...each his own. That is how we feel about this eatery, which can--if vitally necessary--be found on the corner of Mass Ave and Holyoke St. The fare is motley, ranging from some moderately expensive dinners to some overpriced delights. The menu, filled with cheesy Shakespearean quotes, nicely complements the fake-brick wallpaper...
...computerized Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare proves, every critic and defender of the Nixon Administration can find barbs and shields in the blank verse. The playwright has some thing for everyone: politics and religion, sin and redemption-if it is in the human condition, it is in the Shakespearean canon. Most of the year, Shakespeare resides quietly in the volumes of his work. But each summer he thunders and chuckles in festivals from the Spokane Expo to Central Park. For those sun-flooded weeks, the Swan of Avon returns to the group for whom he really wrote - the audience. This year...
...Shakespearean stage, like our own, was cankered with financial woes and preoccupied with sex. Shakespeare produced more dubious double entendres than anyone before or since. Some are readily perceived: Hamlet's announcement, "Then came each actor on his ass," meant then what it does now. In the first Elizabethan world - when there were some 40 euphemisms for sexual organs (including will, dial and den)-almost every passage twinkled with lewdness. Like today's cheerless smut, the Elizabethan bawdiness was both deplored and exploited. The nonsexual slang has traveled with greater success: here are the witches in Macbeth, telling...
...generations, until at last they have become weary commonplaces of the English tongue. From star-cross'd lovers to the rose that by any name would smell as sweet -all these have become bromides. One can sometimes sympathize with the tired businessman who refuses to see any more Shakespearean productions because they are too full of quotations...
Comic Kaleidoscope. One kind of clowning that Dale had not considered was Shakespearean. He had not even read the plays when, in 1966, Director Frank Dunlop called to ask him to do The Winter's Tale at the Edinburgh Festival. "I said, 'No, I can't do that.' He said, 'How the bloody hell do you know you can't do it?' I turned to my wife and told her, This guy I don't even know is swearing at me because I won't do Shakespeare.' " But Shakespeare...