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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...
...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...
...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...