AN AMERICAN DISCUSSES SHAKESPEARE
Mrs. Sydney Greenbie (Ph.D., Yale) was the speaker at a recent meeting of the Wellington Shakespeare Society, and her treatment of Shakespeare from an American point of view was thoroughly enjoyed by an audience that filled the hall of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Her children, she said, had had a literary upbringing and she had found her ten-year-old daughter one day arranging her dolls for a representation of the witches in Macbeth, while her son, at a school puppet performance of "The Merchant of Venice," not only conceived an extraordinarily mature idea of Shylock's character, but managed to convey it to the audience by medium of the puppet he manipulated. A speech from Coriolanus and scenes ! from "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" and "Pericles" were presented by members of the society.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 7, 9 July 1945, Page 8
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135AN AMERICAN DISCUSSES SHAKESPEARE Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 7, 9 July 1945, Page 8
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