Word: shakespearean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shakespearean pundits such as Harry T. Levin '33, associate professor of English, and Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, lecturers in English 25a and English 23a respectively, have been briefing defenseless classes daily on how to enjoy the big show...
Theatre Intime's executive board has agreed to share with the University group the profits or any loss incurred by exchange of the two Shakespearean dramas...
...John Tanner, who knows what women are up to but is helpless in the face of the "life force" (sex), Maurice Evans is playing his first non-Shakespearean role in ten years. But you wouldn't always know...
...There has appeared on the world scene [a] Shakespearean Shylock, revengeful, unmerciful, insatiable in his greed. . . . There never was a Marshall Plan but there was a Shylock Plan. . . . From the moment of his speech, dollars and only dollars have served as the gigantic bait ... for ... the western section of Europe...
...character of the modern Don Juan, who is unable to live up to his paradoxically ascetic ideals, has been vulgarized nobly by Maurice Evans. Instead he shows a comically flat and self-conscious hero, who completely lacks the real pathos of the Shavian creation. Emoting in the worst Shakespearean tradition, Evans draws plenty of laughs, and provides adequate surface entertainment; again a more solid treatment is called for. But Frances Rowe as the unscrupulous female, who pursues him to eventual triumph, is superb. Alternately voluptuous and indignant, she glides through her tasty part with complete competence, while the other players...