Word: wordsworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serf a serf, History 155b starts with mystic Alexander 1 and continues until the debacle of 1917 marked the end of all good things. The errant anglonmle may emerge from the Stuart era to listen to Professor Brower disuss in Sever 31, eighteenth century poetry, from Dryden to Wordsworth...
...hard time making a living, and his fine performance helps to keep the plaintive note running through the comic scenes (though it points up the fact that William S. Gilbert's Jack Point, constructed on the same basis, is a more interesting character than Feste). Richard Wordsworth (Malvolio), Joss Ackland (Sir Toby Belch), and the other comics play conventionally, with the down-the-line competence that distinguishes the Old Vic from American Shakespearean companies...
Fortunately, the role (and the play) is almost actorproof, and anyway Mr. Harvey was frequently satisfactory in quieter moments. In the supporting cast, Joseph O'Connor was an excellent Chorus, and Richard Wordsworth and Dudley Jones made more of Pistol and Fluellen than anybody, including Shakespeare, could have expected...
...performing never to be mannered or coy would be unreasonable. Illyria still keeps its Old World tempo, and the plot its tollgates. But the poetry dances in and out of the prankishness, the air is brushed with light, the carousing invokes no shudders and provides some laughs. Richard Wordsworth's Malvolio is grandly absurd in the letter scene, and in his yellow stockings and cross garters, really funny. Jane Downs's Olivia, Judi Dench's Maria, Dudley Jones's Feste, John Neville's Sir Andrew all bring something personal to their roles, and Barbara Jefford...
...interested to learn from Saturday's paper (Nov. 8) that "most concentrators in English History and Literature are familiar with Wordsworth's Preludes, the book assigned them this year." In view of this familiarity is it possible to assign instead Eliot's Fourth Quartet? Yours sympathetically, Howard M. Jones Professor of English