Elizabethan Contrasts
HE NZBS provided an illuminating contrast in two of its plays I heard this week, one Shakespeare’s, the other a light-hearted picture of what was probably going on around him while he wrote it-Much Ado About Nothing, and Emlyn Williams’s Spring, 1600. One was left wishing that Shakespeare had lifted an eye from his source-books long enough to take a literary interest in this particular spring-I always feel the relationship between the’ sexes in Much Ado leaves much to be desired. But in Mr. Williams’s Spring the sexes take one another refreshingly for granted (as far as they can, that is, considering the amount of boy-girl and girl-boy disguising that’s going on). So that, in spite of the merry madness of the milieu, with rehearsals in the Burbage bedroom, bailiffs at the door, and Drake in his (continued on next nage)
hammock, the emotional atmosphere is hearteningly sane.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 10
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150Elizabethan Contrasts New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 797, 29 October 1954, Page 10
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