Word: shakespeareans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHAMPLAIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Burlington, Vt., from July 22 through Sept. 21. Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, and Henry IV, Part 2, are the Shakespearean entries, counterpointed by Waiting for Godot...
Died. Patricia Jessel, 47, mistress of theatrical malice, whose dark hair and darker voice were just the ticket for mystery lovers on both sides of the Atlantic; of a heart attack; in London. Although a versatile Shakespearean actress, the Hong Kong-born performer found her real metier as a modern villainess, won fame (and a Tony Award) for her portrayal of the calculating wife in the 1954 Broadway run of Witness for the Prosecution...
...Orson Welles wrote and illustrated a volume entitled Everybody's Shakespeare. That title, for all its overtones of Lambist heresy, may still indicate something about what is going on in Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight), the latest and finest of the director's screen adaptations of Shakespearean texts. For Welles, the problem of license versus faithfulness does not exist as such. His Shakespeare films are informed by a single overriding concern: to make the text, both the words and the visual images implicit in them, wholly and completely his own, and thereby to make them ours...
...immigrant parents' Greek accent was drilled out of him by the time he was 19, when he apprenticed with Eva LeGallienne's Civic Repertory Theater. Within four years, he was on Broadway as the Player King to Leslie Howard's Hamlet, and had developed so Shakespearean an intonation that he bombed his first radio auditions. So, he says, "I dirtied it up a little bit and made it sound Amer ican." Soon he was dovetailing up to five soap-opera parts...
...Indeed, the slightly schizoid Romantic preoccupation with nature and the supernatural, physical reality and psychological mystery, rooted itself easily in English soil. Swiss-born John Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) emigrated to England at 22 and took up painting with the encouragement of Sir Joshua Reynolds. His ghoulish portrayals of Shakespearean heroes and fantastic chimeras, such as The Nightmare, predated Goya's grotesques by more than a decade and were immensely popular on the Continent. In their desire to get back to nature, the English Romantics also abandoned the ruins of Italy in favor of the English countryside and Alpine...