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Four centuries later, moderns who celebrate the Bard's birthday often miss the vivid life that Shakespeare gave to the law in hundreds of legal puns, parodies and allusions. He never studied for the bar, but in that lavishly litigious era he could hardly escape learning about it. Elizabethans thronged their court rooms with far more acuity than to day's viewers of TV's Defenders; Shakespeare's father alone was involved in more than 50 lawsuits. If history's most absorbent author needed high legal drama, he had only to versify the royal squabbles...
...Regis (Joseph C. Bright), owner of the St. Regis lipstick enterprises, is looking for a show that will sell her "lip-smacking good" products. An aide, Peter Papp (DeCourcy E. McIntosh), suggests updating Shakespeare, and a Harvard professor (Harry H. Lapham) is backmailed into changing the words of the Bard into television lard. The professor has secretly written a titillating account of Harvard life, The Student Body...
...there was. In Miami Beach last week, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. acted out a scene that was worthy of the Old Bard himself-or maybe P. T. Barnum. Just as he said he would, he took the heavyweight championship of the world away from Charles ("Sonny") Liston thereby proving that the mouth is faster than...
...Jackdaws (named after the mimic bird) are equally graphic dossiers on Columbus' discovery of America and London's 17th century plague and fire. Soon to be published: more kits on the Magna Carta, the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the boy Shakespeare (timed to coincide with the bard's 400th anniversary...
...conjecture to the far limits of common sense. Like others, too, he is an image-counter and an incorrigible drawer of conclusions about the man's life from the man's works. Because Shakespeare refers to bowling 19 times in his plays, Rowse is sure that the bard must have loved bowling. Because Shakespeare puts in Sir John Falstaffs mouth the famous speech slighting honor ("Who hath it? He that died of a Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No . . . I'll have none of it then!"), Rowse writes: "I think we may conclude that Shakespeare, sensible...