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...normal venom kills with more or less speed. Cleopatra and Charmian dying within a few moments of their asp bites was no Shakespearean fairytale. The quietness of their death, however, was. Venom attacks the nerves as well as muscles. It causes profuse bleeding...
...Post-Shakespearean Drama", Professor Murray, Sever...
...Post-Shakespearean Drama", Professor Murray, Sever...
...Also, the 'talkies' are bound to drag in a long play. I can see how short comedies, farces, or one act tragedies could be put across and interest maintained all the way through, but I don't think one would like to go to a talking movie of a Shakespearean play...
...Dakers was by way of being a poet; Mrs. Dakers, years before, something of a Shakespearean actress. And so it happened that their adolescent boys were made to wear painfully purple velvet costumes at their first "children's party." But so well did they play cricket that they lived down the velvets. Harold careered brilliantly at Cambridge (financed on his brother Jonathan's small inheritance) while his brother Jonathan worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold...