Word: wellesely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It was hardly a surprise to students of American foreign policy that a statement condemning German "acts of wanton lawlessness" should have been forthcoming from the United States State Department. Healthy progress away from isolation and toward a constructive program of cooperation has been the theme of all Secretary Hull...
Five Kings, Part I (adapted by Orson Welles from Shakespeare's King Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I & II, Henry V; produced by the Theatre Guild Inc.). When Richard Bentley, the greatest English classical scholar of his age, read Alexander Pope's famed translation of the Iliad, he...
Bold and ingenious was the idea of compressing a week's theatre-going into two nights. But not altogether sound: in slashing two-thirds of what Shakespeare wrote, Welles ripped out much that was dull but more that was vital, either in itself or as connective tissue. Even so...
As a result, Part I of Five Kings is a chaotic Shakespearean vaudeville in which the sense of history is conveyed chiefly by having all the characters grow older, and some of them die. The production lacks all style and almost all significance. What might have been a tour de...
With such recent productions as the uncut Hamlet and Welles's Julius Caesar, the theatre has applied grease paint to Shakespeare instead of embalming fluid. But this time Welles has gone too far. He may yet rake in the chips, but to get Five Kings he had to deal...