Word: shakespeareans
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Kean (book by Peter Stone; lyrics and music by Robert Wright and George Forrest) casts Alfred Drake in the role of Edmund Kean, the early 19th century Shakespearean tragic actor of Drury Lane fame. The hero pursues a nightlong quest for identity, and the theatergoer may wonder why the case was not turned over to Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons. This lavishly mounted, richly costumed wide-stage dramarama is the most elaborate fiasco of the new theater season...
...average reader, the omission of "scammel" may not seem like a deathblow to the language. Yet, the Shakespearean scholar, and certainly many others with a far less professional interest in The Tempest, will find no sympathy for an "unabridged" dictionary that fails to recognize words from the mouth of so marvelous a speaker as Caliban...
...public library is free, why not a public theater?" asks Papp, whose schedule this year began with Much Ado About Nothing and will end with Richard II. Meeting his production costs with foundation grants and private contributions, attracting excellent young actors with little more than the promise of Shakespearean experience, Papp has managed to keep his plan alive against staggering odds-and the biggest odd of them all was former City Park Commissioner Robert Moses...
Jets rising from Idlewild often drop their whining anapests into the flow of Elizabethan iambs. But Shakespearean effects can also be heightened by outdoor production. During one festival performance of Macbeth, deep grey thunderheads compiled themselves overhead as Birnam wood moved to high Dunsinane hill; the branches of the plane trees around and above the stage began to sway and whip; and when Macbeth finally faced Macduff on the ramparts, it was a battle fought in lightning and horizontal rain...
...Macy's-Gimbels' price war. Effective only in scattered scenes and particularly in the foul language and cold ironies of its Thersites, who, more than anyone else, probably represents Shakespeare's point of view, the play is difficult to stage in any context. But Shakespearean directors have long tried to meet the challenge anyway, notably Tyrone Guthrie, who, with the Old Vic, once did Troilus and Cressida as an Edwardian period piece, the Greeks as Prussians and the Trojans as British guards...