Word: shakspearean
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Ever since John Wilkes Booth proved unreliable America has been wary of itinerant Shakspearean actors. But Morris Carnovsky in his two years of touring in Lear since the original Stratford, Connecticut triumph, has reinstated their good name. Carnovsky, now a Brandeis faculty member, has mounted a Lear at the Spingold Theatre which is endued with the high finish and control that was often absent in the hastily-arranged touring performances...
...life as analyzed by a philosophical playwright whose uniqueness has made his name and memory immortal. We study his plays in college, but seldom see them produced because "the public does not want that sort of thing." It would be interesting to make this experiment; obtain the best of Shakspearean actors for the production of the immortal's plays with the money sunk into the elaborate Broadway revue as a working capital for scenery costumes and modern theatrical appliances, and tour the country as frequently as do the modern bedroom farces. Perhaps the public would want more of Shakespeare then...
...Moody's "Harmonics" is a sonnet of Shakspearean form. It evidences an originality of thought, a delicacy of conception, and a strength of diction which have not always been united before in its author's poems...
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