Word: shakespeareans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Hampden, now playing at the Arlington Theatre in a series of Shakespearean plays, seems to have awakened Boston's interest in his work. His audiences, meagre during the earlier performances, have grown steadily, and at present he is drawing excellent houses; in fact his success has been great enough to call for an extra week of "Hamiet," "The Merchant of Venice," and "The Taming of the Shrew...
...vigor and beauty of the Bible and the rusticity of its writers; the philosophic acceptance of a First Cause as inconscient as the telephone, and the strong inclination to say one's prayers; the faculty to cope with Kant and the childlike aptitude for faith; the sheepishness of the Shakespearean mask and the sublimity of the poet; the greatness of Queen Elizabeth and the pretentiousness of her virginity; the grace of Charles the Martyr and his unending folly; the greasy corpulence of Gautier and the perfection of his verse; the divine murmur of Verlaine and the cretin's mentality...
...Mantell and his company are inestimably valuable in the American theatre. If we are inclined to criticise rather severely some of his Shakespearean performances, there can be nothing but praise for his "Richelieu." We can only hope that he will return to Boston in the fall, and that on his next engagement he will give us more than two nights when we may forget so completely the age in which we live...
Observations on the life and customs of New England of a hundred years ago by Harvard's great Shakespearean...