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...wonders as the convoluted plot unfolds what drew the director to this particular Shakespearean romance: he seems to have made only the effort necessary to relate its story. He falls short of animating the tale with any original scheme of reading or staging...
...SHAKESPEAREAN. In Henry IV, Prince Hal declares: "If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work." The sheer number of baseball and basketball contests tends to satiate all but the most avid fans...
...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 over-priced delights. The menu, filled with cheesy Shakespearean quotes, nicely complements the fake-brick wallpaper...
Marriage Revealed. Diana Rigg, 33, British actress who played the sultry, liberated karate expert of television's The Avengers; and Israeli Artist Menachen Gueffen, 43; she for the first time, he for the second; in London; on July 6. Trained originally as a Shakespearean actress, since 1972 Rigg has been a leading lady with England's National Theater Company...
THEATRE OF BLOOD is the giddy tale of a sugar-cured Shakespearean actor named Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) who sets out to eliminate the London critics who have mocked and vilified him during his career. He kills each of them in a quite elaborate and grisly fashion, every slaughter based on a scenario provided by the Bard: one hapless critic, for example, has his heart cut out (the pound of flesh in The Merchant of Venice), another is stabbed to death on the Ides of March. Worst torture of all, perhaps, is that the poor struggling wretches must listen...