Word: soliloquys
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Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). A look, from both sides of the footlights, at The American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn., with Lawrence Langner as guest and Richard Basehart in a soliloquy from Richard...
...Doctor," on the other hand, is cold and frightened. If Rosie is ridiculous in collecting experience, "The Doctor" is sick in avoiding it. And as he reveals in a final, disproportionate soliloquy, he is afraid of love just as she is open...
Joseph is also inconsistent in his treatment of children. In the first act, right after an upward-looking soliloquy that treats very wisely of life and death, Miss Duke asks a contemporary with open-mouthed wonder, "Duh--what's an agnostic?" Miss Duke and her playmate (James Aubrey) seem mature beyond their years throughout most of the play, but in the final scene they regress practically back to the womb, before surging back into virtual senescence for some metaphysical meanderings...
...provide Marlowe neither with actors nor audience ready to accept him on his own terms. Still, Maguire's martial bearing and lush voice mask his inadequacies well enough to let the play move ahead without much tedium. Maguire never plumbs any of Tamburlaine's sensitivity in the great soliloquy of Act Four, nor, most disappointing of all, can he overcome enough of his own refinement to be the "scourge...
...lurching by, Sam realizes that he is in love. He decides to find the girl and salvage her. In the effort to save her, he finds a justification for his own life. At the Sistine Chapel, facing Michelangelo's Last Judgment, the failed painter delivers a soliloquy. " 'Okay, Angelo,' he said to himself grimly. 'I came into that chapel of yours expecting a big lift. That finger of God of yours came right down and you stuck it in my eye. Maybe my canvases should all be thrown out. Or some landlady will use them...