The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-23
By JOHN CORBIN.
| N its production of "The Tempest"
this week at The Century Theatre
tho Drama Society will present

"'i I''N'ut
u tuIi TEXT IN It's proper order and
!" T'piu community. tor tho hrst time
IN 'hrec hundred years to "a day the
N'""c VIII ne played rs Shakespeare
'h"nded' TN" Yard 80 to speak. Is to
get as mis- ""n stage manager. A
World "r stag. history lies behind this
,houhcetn"ut
me arrest ana most elusive dream
u the poets imagination has suffered
more severely thah an! other play the
crushing weight ~ our manner of pic
t"rlal production "a thing which was
"o', ildeed' unknown To shakespeare
'ht pt when II" was most certainly
-hl't'ess. To make way for stage pic
'"r"S u mas hithett" been necessary
- 'u' IN" t'Ni severely ana 10 alter
'"' "fh"r "f 'hc narrative. with the
result that II mas noi been possible TO
present TN" l'aE Ia lis fuli Nigor and
integrity. TIE present production II
'aH'd on an inoep"hd"nt study of
hl'zapethan sttsecraft. ana IN several
.lai points " rcNolntohl%es previous
'"n'"ptions "t II.
IN" might hesitate 10 say mat our
ng three hundred years the stage OF
'"' greatest ana tie most opular OF
To-" worlds dra'natistS mas pc"ii raui-
t.te. TINT il II Il, w.r, not we'll Lcoyn
,b., ,,. .,,,s, tn. ,bo,.., y,,rs J
fn. st,p. of Sophocles was m~isnuJ,r-
.tood oui,, a. radically. II il only
WITHIN o,r own generation that p1rn-
f,ll has r,yad the .u. ,ld errors M
NArro and Nitruyiua. The Two eases.
. il haptrps run closely p~arallel. I
To the writer's of the Roman Empire
n. theatre OF Sopnoclns elonge to "A
i.st scarcely NOR. remote thar was
he Ellzabethan age TO writers OF the
Restoration. Both uttered misrepre-
>entations that were gllbly parroted
by centuries ur followers. And all the
lime "A practical man Of the theatre. if
MS mind i,ad been left uncluud,d by
,rror. might huv. reconstructed the
,rimatursy If Sopllvclc> or Of shake
spnare 10y a careful sitting of what is
implied in the test of the plays.
Tn" pictorial stage rad its first fun
development In ia, gorgeous mask
1T court. which " Snak.sp"are's "
lifetime Wcr' engineered hN no less "a
i~~vsonice than lingo Jones. Shortly
afrerward ti" public theatres Were
,losed. durinG the civil wars: aud
when they opened uudrr the Iscstura-
ton they promptly took over. IN oor-
disnce To the IiGhl ana surnntnouS
tastes Of tn" court. tn" polderous
m.chanisn Of tn" picture stage. IL was
IN" folk of this gay tim" t.dt tfSt
found the old dramaturg> cruue. me
Tor centuries the world neglected II ~
=. thing VI iouGht 'olcriJge described
S~hanesp"are's stage a. "a naked room
hunS win a ~'anN"'' ana even an
a~ntipnarN aa '~hetIcuio"S a. r"rinah
''rulsh ts'i'ia'eu '1' '''"''', " -"
pa|h"nSe nv "nIN 'hI'' h""u''""
NJ 'he cp'n'h- w !" "n''.."''
'eh'hT!' I" W SURF "'''''' '"' ~
ms ensaseu III " p'''e,'
'To'ersE as l" "ne''''' "t""'''
imPIoEeu seehe's 't '' $50
was nceHSiple petause H'''"ei 'e"l.""
mat scenery j. =" wv i'"''''i ~
emf kihd' -'dhNa@ r'.n'c" ." ~
specu'e' 10 NC >e"'" ,unn
'nrous" INV '"'"' I'm.
hrch' ana H"i'" "N
pIas'icah! IN 'he ioui' NV 49,"
dramatist m's't e"'i''f VI. -, w..
on medd"ns WIN '"e o'.,, ~.
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