Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These two moments were lifted out of time and lent a significance beyond the surrounding circumstances. They were tableaus, which might well have stood for similar incidents that Shakespeare did not have time to show. Nor were Hermione's attentions to Polixenes anything to be sniffed at: they were real...
The stage was a huge pristinely white box, which conveyed no sense of confinement. No props were used but the absolute essentials. Leontes and Polixenes, present on stage, functioned in a total and enveloping mutual awareness which was unbothered by relationships to other things, and this was true for every...
Trevor Nunn fashioned The Winter's Tale as a modern fable of elegant simplicity. The neo-Edwardian dress and a few stage devices were the only indication of modernity. Nunn raised the words of Time which commence the fourth act to the level of a kind of incantation over the...
These words were spoken with exotic sonority in the blackness before the first act.
There were so many points at which this production dealt adequately with difficult problems that I cannot hope to deal with them all. One example: Antigonus is given by Leontes the unhappy chore of dispatching Hermione's newborn baby girl. He takes to ship with the idea of leaving it...