Word: shakesperianism
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...from Sheridan to Robertson have been considered the absolute zero of the drama itself; when the Professor ends his lectures on Sheridan, he casts a long glance forward to 1865 and Robertson, dons his seven-league critical boots, and stamps his way quickly through the poetic drama and the Shakesperian revivals, which alone illuminate the "void, or chaos, of Georgian and early Victorian drama," leaving in his train disparagement and apology until he comes to the renaissance of realism in the work of Robertson and the Bancrofts, when he smiles again, and the class stops cutting...
There is nothing like putting one's best foot forward, and certainly this Yale Game Lampy does that with an excellent cover by Saunders. Picture, if you will, a Shakesperian gentleman of no small fame, standing with a canine skull in hand, background of blue clouds and what might be Dunsinane Castle but looks more like a stadium, --and the words in his mouth you have guessed by this time. "Alas Poor Y--!" All well done, but we doubt if we can agree that the rest of the number holds up to that standard...
...Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra the other evening gave a program of all Shakespeare, that is to say of orchestral pieces written to illustrate some Shakesperian theme. This interesting selection of music, ably conducted by Fritz Reiner, consisted of Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing, Wechsler's overture As You Like It, Berlioz' Queen Mab, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. This piquantly balanced the well known against the little known...
Music written to Shakespeare affords interesting observation. Most of it is not so good, and very few pieces rise to the remotest inkling of the grandeurs of the original. Especially is this true of the Shakesperian plays made into operas. Both librettos and music are sad mirrorings. Verdi's Otello and Falstaff, with their scholarly librettos by Boito are the only operatic compositions that ascend within sight of Shakespeare. They are not faithful to the poet in spirit-they sober down his great madness, adding to it a classical and austere elegance of form...
ROMEO AND JULIET?Last week of the longest Shakesperian run in American dramatic history, wherein Jane Cowl proves to everyone's satisfaction that you don't have to be over draft-age to present an enthralling Juliet...