Word: shakespeareans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when competing with a critic who is also a man of the theater, such as Harley Granville-Barker.) Styan might have made the additional point, recently emphasized by Fredson Bowers in Textual and Literary Criticism, that discussion of early plays must have its foundations in scientific bibliography. Twentieth-century Shakespearean scholarship depends upon the work of W.W. Greg and other textual scholars; the two volumes of Dover Wilson's The Manuscript of Shakespeare's Hamlet precede his What Happens in Hamlet...
...pages-but by a catalogue as racy as it was comprehensive. Haldeman-Julius gathered his titles largely from the public and the public domain, combining sex with the classics, self-improvement with sex-all mailed in plain wrappers. Over 40 years, Little Blue Book editions of 29 Shakespearean plays sold 5,500,000 copies-but one sex-instruction pamphlet alone, What Married Women Should Know* produced a total sale...
Shakespeare's Cleopatra is, as Charmian says, "a lass unparallel'd," but Miss Hepburn's is not, alas, unparallel'd. This Mt. Everest of female roles has foiled many a seasoned Shakespearean within recent memory, including Vivien Leigh. Eugenie Leontovich, Mary Newcombe, Dorothy Green, Katharine Cornell, Janet Achurch, Peggy Ashcroft, and Edith Evans (though the last two came close). The celebrated willing suspension of disbelief does not extend to accepting Miss Hepburn as a sensuous femme fatale who ages from 28 to 38. Only once is she amorously convincing, when she gradually moves in toward Antony ("Eternity...
...When you salute the three Stratfords for gaining "some of the fluidity of the Elizabethan theater," you overlook the fact that the Shakespearean Festival-in Ashland-insists that Elizabethan staging is necessary to achieve the full value of our stage. It is built on the known dimensions of the 1599 Fortune Theater of London. Because of it we can, and do, produce an uncut Hamlet (without interruption of any kind) in three hours...
...Reader Gettler gave up too soon. Here is the list: 1) Falstaff; 2) Richard III; 3) the Shakespearean jester, e.g., Touchstone; 4) Ariel (whose hand, trumpet and feet stuck out behind the cover slash); 5) Caliban; 6) Hamlet (with Yorick); 7) King Lear; 8) & 9) Antony and Cleopatra; 10) & 11) Petruchio and the shrew he tamed, Katharina; 12) Ophelia; 13) & 14) Othello and his ill-fated wife, Desdemona; 15) & 16) Juliet and Romeo; 17) a gravedigger from Hamlet; 18) & 19) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth; 20), 21) & 22) the three witches from Macbeth, stirring their boiling cauldron; 23) & 24) Bottom...