Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...17th century a French consul dug down into the dunes, sent hundreds of ornate columns to Louis XIV. At the start of the 19th century an English sea captain sent home a second load of marble loot. It now ornaments the grounds at Windsor Castle. The winds blew and the dunes again covered what was left, until digging began in earnest in modern times...
...here today, the American Shakespeare Festival has put its full repertory on the boards for the current season. From now until mid-September, this well-acted, handsomely staged, but somewhat abridged All's Well will share the Festival stage with performances of Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and--a revival from last summer--A Midsummer Night's Dream. All four are much worth seeing, and the last two are obligatory...
Hoist a cup o' sack to the Connecticut Stratfordians! With their new production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, which had its official opening yesterday afternoon, co-directors John Houseman and Jack Landau have put the American Shakespeare Festival back into high gear...
...choice of this play marked an act of courage. Few people are familiar with it. Those with any knowledge of the plot have usually acquired it through one of the dozen or so operatic versions, chiefly Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi's Falstaff, or Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love. But the directors were willing to gamble (or gambol); and their slot (or slut) machine has come up with three cherries--a winning combination that ought to keep the box office coffers filled and the audience coughers silent...
Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: alternating Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor...