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Hatch, Robert | March 10, 1956 issue

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The more one sees Shakespeare on the screen, the more one thinks the screen is not the place for him. The arguments for filming his plays are evident. Aside from the authority of his name and the graphic simplicity of his great themes, his plays flow with an unbroken and rising momentum that would seem to translate well into the sight stream provided by the camera. But in practice it does not, work so. The continuity of Shakespeare is verbal, in the poetry. The staged scenes are elliptical and fragmentary, they are crammed with hazard and action, but words, not deeds, carry the drama forward and the real purpose of the scenes is to personify and italicize the unbroken pageant of the verse.

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SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; DRAMA; MOTION pictures; CONTINUITY in literature; VERSE drama; POETRY
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