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...just such tests. At 17, when her widow-mother could not afford tuition at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Gillian won a scholarship, later got a prize for "grace and charm of speech and movement." At 19, after a swing through the provinces as a speechless Shakespearean lady-in-waiting, she toured the Near East with an E.N.S.A. (Britain's U.S.O.) girl show. Last spring, she got her big break in television...
Henry V.--The Laurence Olivier production of the Shakespearean classic rolls into the thirty-fifth week of its only New England engagement, at the Esquire Theatre opposite Symphony Hall. It is really every bit as good as it is cracked up to be, with superb acting and direction contributed by Olivier, with help from Reen Asherton and other British stars, and outstandingly original music by William Walton. If you have not yet seen it, by no means neglect the chance--and even if you have, it would probably be worth a second viewing...
...performance, and all the closeted, academic studies in Harry Widener's book-stacked shrine cannot convey the language, structure, and force of Sophoeles and Shakespeare better than the simplest kind of theatrical presentation. "Hamlet," produced this summer by William West '49 and company, in Professor F. O. Matthiessen's Shakespearean Tragedy (English 24a) dramatized the possibilities of presenting entertaining theatre while achieving scholarly purpose. Happily, the idea has become contagious...
...Shaw later burlesqued the novel and Shakespearean drama-in a blank verse play, The Admirable Bashville...
Author Cecil considers Hardy "the last English writer to be built on the grand Shakespearean scale." Readers, argues Cecil, may be overcritical of Hardy's often cumbersome, melodramatic writing if they fail to grasp that his work was modeled on the Elizabethan drama-on the wild and stormy tragedy of King Lear and The Duchess of Malfi rather than on he carefully constructed novel form of a Tolstoy or a Jane Austen. They may also become impatient with his pessimism if they do not realize that, unlike his great Elizabethan predecessors, Hardy was a reluctant atheist...