Tuning In.... (For Warren Wolfe)
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
January 25, 1954
January 1954
Middletown, Ohio
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Shakespeare's "King Richard II" which achieved its television debut on WLW-D and WLW-T's Hall of Fame yesterday, is an introduction, perhaps an unusually poetic one but still no more than a starter. The play, written early in the Elizabethan dramatist's career, points to three other Shakespearian histories, which finally unfold the story of England’s glorious king, Henry V. At the same time, "Richard II" is a great writer’s first struggle with tragedy, a form which he has not yet mastered. In his histories, Shakespeare is depicting the grandeur of kings. But he cannot stop his story with Richard II, for that monarch is a foolish, grief-stricken fellow...
Shakespeare's "King Richard II" which achieved its television debut on WLW-D and WLW-T's Hall of Fame yesterday, is an introduction, perhaps an unusually poetic one but still no more than a starter. The play, written early in the Elizabethan dramatist's career, points to three other Shakespearian histories, which finally unfold the story of England’s glorious king, Henry V. At the same time, "Richard II" is a great writer’s first struggle with tragedy, a form which he has not yet mastered. In his histories, Shakespeare is depicting the grandeur of kings. But he cannot stop his story with Richard II, for that monarch is a foolish, grief-stricken fellow...
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