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...Reader Gettler gave up too soon. Here is the list: 1) Falstaff; 2) Richard III; 3) the Shakespearean jester, e.g., Touchstone; 4) Ariel (whose hand, trumpet and feet stuck out behind the cover slash); 5) Caliban; 6) Hamlet (with Yorick); 7) King Lear; 8) & 9) Antony and Cleopatra; 10) & 11) Petruchio and the shrew he tamed, Katharina; 12) Ophelia; 13) & 14) Othello and his ill-fated wife, Desdemona; 15) & 16) Juliet and Romeo; 17) a gravedigger from Hamlet; 18) & 19) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth; 20), 21) & 22) the three witches from Macbeth, stirring their boiling cauldron; 23) & 24) Bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1960 | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

Hamlet came tooling onstage on a red motor scooter and sat eying three maniacal traffic signs: "To Be," "Not to Be," and "No Entry." He was tossing the skull of Yorick in the air, pondering how to flip his directional signals, when a stagehand reversed the "To Be" sign, revealing the words "To Egypt." Sure enough, Cleopatra appeared and started to shimmy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: To Beat or Not to Beat | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...Hoffman's book The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare," consent was reluctantly given. Last week Sir Thomas' tomb was opened. "We found sand. No coffin, no papers-just sand,'' reported the crestfallen Hoffman. Added the London News Chronicle: "Alas, not even poor Yorick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empty Theory | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Sets for this production were designed by Yorick Blumenfeld '54, and Virginia Gray '53 is in charge of the costuming. The opera will be presented in the 18th century style, with as few modern innovations as necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Musical Club Opens Rehearsals for Comic Opera | 3/19/1953 | See Source »

...them taken out again, at least from the small reading rooms of Widener's main hall. Then students who prefer direct lighting may once more study there. But as it stands now, I see no reason for wearing bifocals just because Mr. Metcalf prefers fiuorescent lamps. Yorick Blumenfeid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bring Back the Bulbs | 1/11/1952 | See Source »

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