Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre PlayscriptsRichard France This volume is the only publication available of the fully annotated playscripts of Wells' W.P.A Federal Theatre Project and Mercury Theatre adaptations, including the "Voodoo" Macbeth, the modern-dress Julius Caesar and Welles' compilation of history plays, Five Kings. |
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... man's season . His language is starlight and fireflies and the sun and the moon . He wrote it with tears and blood ... man that he offered the charismatic young actor the leading part of a sixty - year - old capitalist in a new play by ...
... man's season . His language is starlight and fireflies and the sun and the moon . He wrote it with tears and blood ... man that he offered the charismatic young actor the leading part of a sixty - year - old capitalist in a new play by ...
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... man's - creative excitement had found another focus , radio , where they now made the kind of impact that Caesar and Macbeth had made on stage . There was one , tragicomic resumption of the Mercury's activities , this time in unlikely ...
... man's - creative excitement had found another focus , radio , where they now made the kind of impact that Caesar and Macbeth had made on stage . There was one , tragicomic resumption of the Mercury's activities , this time in unlikely ...
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... man's talent for ingratiating himself made him as well suited for this job , fraught with the racial tensions that would plague it , as anyone - black or white - could at that time have been . Its potential for giving work to upwards of ...
... man's talent for ingratiating himself made him as well suited for this job , fraught with the racial tensions that would plague it , as anyone - black or white - could at that time have been . Its potential for giving work to upwards of ...
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