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...There has appeared on the world scene [a] Shakespearean Shylock, revengeful, unmerciful, insatiable in his greed. . . . There never was a Marshall Plan but there was a Shylock Plan. . . . From the moment of his speech, dollars and only dollars have served as the gigantic bait ... for ... the western section of Europe...
...using the specifically reproduced copy, the VTW will be able to hurdle the complex technical difficulties of cutting and staging so evident in Shakespearean drama. Although Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson won't be playing the leading roles, VTW members feel that they got the next best thing...
...character of the modern Don Juan, who is unable to live up to his paradoxically ascetic ideals, has been vulgarized nobly by Maurice Evans. Instead he shows a comically flat and self-conscious hero, who completely lacks the real pathos of the Shavian creation. Emoting in the worst Shakespearean tradition, Evans draws plenty of laughs, and provides adequate surface entertainment; again a more solid treatment is called for. But Frances Rowe as the unscrupulous female, who pursues him to eventual triumph, is superb. Alternately voluptuous and indignant, she glides through her tasty part with complete competence, while the other players...
William Shakespeare won a poll. Asked what plays they would most like to see revived, Broadway audiences elected eight Shakespearean plays among the first twelve...
Required English A is not the largest course in the English department's repertoire as is usually the case with only 89 as compared to the 144 in the Shakespearean course given by Professor Willard Farnham of the University of California...