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Word: shakespearian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...representatives indifferent to your wrongs." But John L., born in Lucas, Iowa, Feb. 12, 1880, a Welsh coal miner's son who quit school after the seventh grade to dig coal in underground pits, a union organizer with a shock of red hair and red eyebrows and a Shakespearian style, fought his way to the top of the U.M.W. to change all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fighter's Retreat | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...here is Greek tragedy as it should be done, like neither a Shakespearian character study and display of verbal pyrotechnics, nor a contemporary inquest into the septic souls of one's nerve-wracked next-door neighbors. To meet with Oedipus Rex on its own grounds, you approach it like neither Hamlet nor Death of a Salesman, but rather as if it were a Solemn High Mass. It reminds us that the "play" was originally a religious ritual, after all, even if this is a spirit our own age has successfully recaptured on the stage only in Eliot's Murder...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: Oedipus Rex | 11/4/1958 | See Source »

After the eight-week Broadway run of The Entertainer, Sir Laurence will hurry to Scotland to catch the moors in a properly misty mood for his movie Macbeth. As in his other three Shakespearian movies (Henry V, Hamlet, Richard III), he will produce, direct and star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Barbara Tettelbach, a twenty-year-old blond photographer's model from Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, was chosen from 27 candidates for the role of Juliet in the forthcoming production of the Harvard Shakespearian Players, producer Maurice Ford announced Sunday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feud Interlude | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

Romeo and Juliet is one of four plays in the Shakespearian production "The Play's the Thing,' which the Harvard Players will present next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, August 15-17, in the Union Commons Room. The other three plays are Richard II, Henry IV, Part I and The Midsummer Night's Dream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feud Interlude | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

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