Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrapped up in the limpid legend of southern Eire, Three Wishes for Jamie is a pleasant tale of simple Irish folk, a mild musical comedy tastefully done...
Briefly stated, it is the tale of Jamie McRuin, a strapping young Irishman who is saved from certain death by the legendary Fairy Queen. After plucking him out of a raging stream, she offers him three wishes. He chooses to travel, to marry a beautiful woman, and to have a son who will speak the old (Gaelic) language. In the course of two acts, nineteen scenes, the wishes are fulfilled...
...auld tale opens i' bauld fashion, as bonnie Charlie lands i' the Western hi'lands. He gathers the braw clansmen about him i' a unco handsome scene, verra probably set on the only cloudless day i' the recent climes o' Scotia. The skirl o' the pipes, the fearsom' whoops o' the hairy-legged hi'landers and the proud switchin's o' their kilts bode fair to make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen...
Dickens is essentially a confidential writer. Even when he is dealing with the broad masses of unrest in France in "A Tale of Two Cities," he is drawn inexorably to the minute details of the situation, which he eagerly and secretively displays to his reader. He should ideally be read-or rendered--in a heavy Victorian atmosphere itself rich in distracting detail. Mr. Williams attempted to recreate this mood by dressing himself as Dickens, beard and all, by reading from frayed volumes on a velvet-topped desk copied from that which the author used in his own "Readings...
...Shrike is a relentless, gripping theater piece-one man's horror story that might easily be more than one man's fate. It is a tale of doors closing, one by one, until a door opens at the end-upon the outskirts of hell. Even its chief flaw as playwriting-it slightly scrambles the picture of an institution with the predicament of a man-enhances it as theater...