Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JONES. Vice triumphs-most engagingly, too-in this movie masterpiece wrested by Director Tony Richardson from Fielding's ribald 18th century classic. Albert Finney and Hugh Griffith head a superb cast...
...JONES. Vice triumphs-most engagingly, too-in this movie masterpiece wrested by Director Tony Richardson from Fielding's ribald 18th century classic. Albert Finney and Hugh Griffith head a superb cast...
...sometimes funny, sometimes corrosive drama based on Harold Pinter's London and Broadway stage success, The Caretaker. It is still morbidly fascinating to watch. And what made the play important remains perfectly clear: dialogue so richly human that every vile syllable sounds like a cry for help, plus superb acting of their original roles by Pleasence, Shaw and Bates...
...Stratford and the education Shakespeare might have received, are as interesting as they are detailed, and it seems inconceivable that any further research could have made them much more extensive. Again, in describing the London of Shakespeare's time and the courtiers who befriended the young poet, Rowse is superb...
...Rowse's assertiveness and strong language are irritating at times, they make for superb writing at others. He is clearly in love with the "exciting ... inspiring" times, with the poet whose life he is describing, and with the "precious, irreplaceable," and "unparalleled" woman who ruled England during most of Shakespeare's life. Although this blunt, opinionated man does not seem to be the chosen explicator of the infinitely subtle Shakespeare, his book is a valuable, lucid addition to the biographics of the poet. It irritates as often as it enlightens, but it enlightens very often indeed...