Word: shakespearianism
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Florence Reed has never before played a Shakespearian role though she rehearsed in Hamlet with E. H. Sothern in 1907. She devoted her talents in 1917 to the long continued spectacularities of Chu Chin Chow, wherein Ali Baba and his robbers concealed themselves at the Manhattan Opera House ; hers also was the somewhat wanton Shanghai Gesture...
Margaret Anglin, famed actress, in Philadelphia, hurt her foot. Therefore she resigned from the cast of Macbeth as produced by George C. Tyler, with scenery designed by famed Gordon Craig. Florence Reed, famed actress who has only once played a Shakespearian role, succeeded her when Macbeth opened in Washington, prior to engagements in Manhattan, Boston and elsewhere...
Salanio, Salarino and Gratiano, ordinarily the Wynmen, Blynken and Nod of the Shakespearian first act, were as different as people really are and as alike as gentlemen's ideas are. Hugh Miller, Alfred Jingle in 'Pickwick", played a lively Gratiano to the giggling Nerissa of Spring Byington...
Henry the Fifth. Walter Hampden, in his delvings into the classic drama, happened upon this occasionally beautiful, often bombastic, box-office piece by William Shakespeare and produced it with all the whisperings, stampings, posturings and spur-clankings that generations of Shakespearian ragpickers in the acting profession have taught people to associate with the poetry of the immortal playwright. Certainly the foremost U. S. exponent of this orthodox and dignified procedure, Walter Hampden acts with his usual authority and vigor through the crashing, sometimes too sonorous story that has been visited upon the armies at Agincourt. Henry the Fifth will especially...
...modernizing of Shakespeare is just a fad," Fritz Leiber, veteran Shakespearian star, walking off the stage into his dressing-room at the Arlington Theatre, explained to a CRIMSON representative. "It appeals to those people who are always seeking novelty in a thing, while the company likes it because it breaks up the repertoire...