Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gammer Gurton's Needle is not even a vehicle for Kaplan's production, it is an excuse. Don't see the play, but do see the production and dream about the marvelous things that might happen if this company got its hands on a real bawdy Elizabethan farce...
...theater is the Lazarus of the arts. Two thousand years of "worst seasons ever" between Periclean Athens "and Elizabethan England failed to bury it. Indeed, in the two and a half millenniums since Aeschylus, the number of dramatic geniuses could be counted on one and a half hands. The theater does not live on its masterpieces but between them. Man created the theater in his own image, and it wears two masks and a thousand faces. The mask of tragedy says weep-and bear it. The mask of comedy says grin-and bear it. The theater is witness and partner...
...through their paces by Franco Zeffirelli, the irreverent Italian director who once did a modern-dress Hamlet in which the Dane intoned: "To be or not to be, what the hell!" Zeffirelli's notion is that Shrew is a walloping good story that audiences can eat up, the Elizabethan language of the script notwithstanding, and he predicts that the film "will go over well with a Walt Disney audience." In fact, he says, "we intend to make Shakespeare as successful a screenwriter as Abby Mann...
...aver that London is in the midst of a renaissance, that its theater is "in a second Elizabethan era." Nonsense. While it may be the world's pleasure capital, London smacks more of Las Vegas desperation than of Renaissance gusto. Compare the solitary John Osborne with Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and Webster. The contrast is humbling...
...have looked decadence in the face without seeing it. If London today reminds you of Shakespeare's London, why? Shakespeare's London was animated by patriotism born of the achievements of Elizabethan sea captains. What victories do Londoners celebrate today? All the turned-on young men and women will burn out as quickly as a light bulb of British manufacture...