Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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I have nothing against the use of comedy in Faustus; for all I know, many of the comic scenes were written by Marlowe himself. But, they could be used discriminately so as to bear some relation to the dramatic undercurrent, which is, for whatever else one may add, a theme...
It is in Faustus that this joy and pain, this exaltation and fear of retribution, must be combined to form a character difficult if not impossible to portray on stage. James Straley does it well although he does not achieve the full childish joy Faustus finds in his power nor...
If the drama was drowned by the farce, what turned out was, still, highly entertaining and colorful. The stage was fully used for magnificent and flourishing movement while the costumes and set added a fine array of color. Carol Lee Dixon's setting in the style of Mies van der...
Though Baker's staging was generally excellent, it was often maudlin in its excesses. Thunder and gales at every mention of the Devil and at every calumniation of religion seems unnecessary. But they were particularly poor when sung by chorus line behind the scenes. Once the chorus showed up on...
This is important because the play relies heavily on making damnation as much a reality to the twentieth century audience as it was (without exaggerated staging) to that of the sixteenth. In this Baker was successful and he came closer to achieving a sense of the spectacular in the knowledge...