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...produce talking records that would not talk down to their audience. Her partner: Barbara Cohen, a classmate at New York City's Hunter College. Last week, eight years and some 200 releases later, the latest Caedmon albums were on sale: three Shakespeare dramas, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, the opening installments of an impressive recording project. Within four years, the partners hope to produce 34 other plays, all with topnotch casts, adding up to the first complete professional Shakespeare on records...
...Continental dollars for pennies when most people thought they would become worthless. Overnight a man of affairs instead of a lowly leather dresser, he was still despised by the other well-to-do. He was uncouth, uneducated, a prodigious boozer and a shameless wencher. His wife was a shrew, his son a boor, his poor daughter none too bright and also addicted to the bottle. Dexter bought the finest house in town, and sat in it spitting tobacco juice on the carpets and getting drunk every night...
Ashland, Ore.: Duchess of Malfi and Shakespeare in rotation with Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Richard II and The Taming of the Shrew...
...Krapp's Last Tape, in which a defeated, Proust-like writer plays back his own past, on the same bill with Edward Albee's Zoo Story, which stars a lonely beatnik trying to communicate with an awful square. Up in Central Park: The Taming of the Shrew...
Ashland, Ore.: Richard II, The Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, and a sleeper, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi...