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The moral midgets at London’s National Theatre are ruining art to score political points. The post Short Shrift for Shakespeare appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Short Shrift for Shakespeare The moral midgets at London’s National Theatre are ruining art to score political points. No doubt it is very weak of me, but I seem not to be able to resist looking at the feed on my phone when I wake up, rather as heavy smokers used to reach for a fag. Yesterday, I found what was advertised as a masterclass in the recitation of a soliloquy, posted by the National Theatre in London. It seems to me increasingly that English stage actors have two modes of recitation: mumbling or gross overemphasis—hamming it up in fact—with resultant harshness of diction. So it was in this case, in one of Ophelia’s laments on Hamlet’s condition. But there was something more than mere harsh diction: Ophelia…Open
