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at first. Peovlc must rrov; e.ccv.rto.accl to what
is out of the common before r.uovrijin^ it. Your
icier., if carried out ; L you fool it", ./ill be
receiver .generally - and before long.
(,'. Fe?v; v v^-iofj. p.2-5)
To the attraction of her - cmonrlity and the novelty of
the doubling v:oulci be ad-ed the appeal of "clar.i.ical" c.ccuory
and rrocoorj. A£ rain, the major ocenic r rtioto of the eay were
to be employed - Gillian Telbin, Walter Harm, Pcrkina anc'
Hawes Crrven, but on tU.i a occasion there was no "director"
or pcvlr.or. The pro'-ranae ackuo-. lee" ; ed Napier LolCiim as
"Sta^re .'Irna'-or for Mirjo AnderLon", but v.ithout ,the cu;; c.y'^ion
tiit t this indivicu; 1 h d any recpoaibilitios beyond those of
the coniiiion— or— ^rrdon or" a:--?.if;.cr. cither ir: : '-field, nor ;.-^iy
otlitsr "expert" \r. ,o credited \vith the pro^uctioii, recnonGibility
for v/hich rested on f.ie actress. j.'Iiis h-.'d been the cace
with T, ^ou Li!:o It at Stratford, anc1 it apoo. rrj olr..t ; ftor
Romeo av.o. J;u.i; ; t the cnnloyrient of a de^i .ncr-r'iroctor ;:nr no
longer felt to exert ; .ny influence on the niblic. No ^.^rrgrt-vn
her. .1..in:; "the production as a fa t of archaeology a;roearpr.) in
the nevrr j'jr • ^r on tac pro^rc_j...cr:.
ii. The ^erfom-nce.
The mo.,t inriortant source of infor.:i.r 'tion r-. : r in,;, ary
And roon's ;;'o, ci^" o^ The winter*s Talc ir.. a fuliy-annoo' -•'--:•"
-t ;'';c-:.v .nn/ ::cr'c c,> -r, endorsed by r t'£r->ier Lot:.drui am. 1 nov. ii:
the Polder ^li.:-J:ec-:-cc.re Library ( .int.'. .- 3: ^hattLici;, ^.^
ii-tor'c . • lo 2&). In actuition to bii^x, .^GS and oettii\r;t;;, tiic
book i -cluclec call-ii;;os, timiivo and a note of t.ae o.i. ;cii;.i?iiG
of tiio Lyceira ctaco: t_io r)j.-oocoiiioia Ojioniag v/^o Ji^irtj-u :^co
feet, cix inches v/iae and t?i rty--'Jv;o feet, ten in^hcc hijh,
and tiio ct","e v;ac forty-one foot deep, xhio depth could bo
extended by uce of a tr/onty-t-iree i'ojt doop area i.:. the i-o ^
sccne-c.jck, and tlio cellc'-ra{.:o all !-0 ;.ved an elovon-^'o^t ,',i-/-:. :J.ao
^rid -.vao -uu-:ii-b3--ci. lit feet above tac i'o,,r-co.- c& bo, r.:.:o f and
tu'Ciity-covon above the uoot ge.
•jJIio .i-oia-o-coijy irj "^acod ,..oon the Chi::\vick Press edition
of liiss And or;;; oil's active to;.t, -.Iiic-.i v/os ic. uo-: i i 1^0?, and
differs iron it in sor:ic wrticulrrc. ^lic text was al;;o pablirhed