Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STRATFORD, Conn. --If Shakespeare's name were not attached to The Taming of the Shrew, the play would doubtless be gathering dust. Ranking near the bottom of the canon, this early potboiler is a paltry piece of work. Shakespeare very likely cooked up this bit of woman-baiting to appeal to the myriad Elizabethan fans of bear-baiting. Only the S.P.C.A. came out ahead...
...Bernard Shaw raved on about the play as a remarkable example of "realistic comedy." What rot! Shrew is about as realistic as Peter Pan, and the work is, of course, pure farce. Now heaven knows that farce depends mainly on situation and incident rather than character. But good farce (like The Merry Wives of Windsor, for instance) concerns itself to some extent at least with character; in Shrew we don't even have the slightest idea why Kate is shrewish...
...title role in Coriolanus with an able assist from James Earl Jones who also works out in Troilus and Cressida.* A mobile company, complete with dressing rooms, stage, and a 1,600-seat theater stowed into trucks, tours New York's five boroughs performing The Taming of the Shrew and Henry V in English and Romeo and Juliet en Espanol...
AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn.: Featured players this season are Philip Bosco as the noble-natured but uncouth general, Coriolanus; Lillian Gish as the malapert nurse in Romeo and Juliet; Morris Carnovsky in his-famed portrayal of King Lear; Ruby Dee as the knockabout Kate in Shrew...
...PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff fills every round with comic impact in this verbal slugfest. pitting a fiery, sexy shrew. Diana Sands, against a self-righteous bookstore clerk, Alan Alda...