Word: tates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attending a preview of a huge Pablo Picasso art show at London's famed Tate Gallery, Britain's Prince Philip was less than impressed by the master's protean efforts. Many newshounds, trailing Philip as he inspected the paintings and other works, distinctly heard him snicker on occasion. Beyond that, accounts varied. The London Daily Herald was certain that Philip had muttered: "I sometimes wonder if the customers understand...
...refined this into: "Now friend, what means thy change of countenance?" Romeo and Juliet stayed alive; "false Cressid" remained true to Troilus; and in the most bizarre happy ending of the lot, King Lear's daughter Cordelia married Edgar, and Lear was offered back his kingdom. Adapter Nahum Tate, who also edited out Lear's Fool (this cut lasted for 157 years), solemnly declared that his only purpose was "making the tale conclude in a success for the innocent distressed persons...
...with the text. The gravediggers were missing in his Hamlet, as was Ophelia's funeral, and Laertes had no pact with the King to kill Hamlet. As far as the public was concerned, it was a case of mime over matter; audiences thrilled to volcanic Edmund Kean playing Tate's sugar-coated Lear, and demanded that mesmeric Sarah Siddons ring down Macbeth on the sleepwalking scene in her farewell appearance...
...Tate (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new West ern series with a Robin Hoodish hero...
Stefan Slabczynski, chief restorer at London's Tate Gallery: "So many people are involved and so many tests are done that it is practically impossible to damage something. A mass of chemical equipment is used, every picture is scrupulously documented, and proof positive is needed for what is done...