The Cool Ferocity of a King Inflamed by Jealousy
Charles IsherwoodJuly 24, 2011: A thrill of true feeling runs through virtually every scene of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “The Winter’s Tale” at the Park Avenue Armory. Scalding jealousy, hunger for revenge, young love in rapturous bloom, the soul-corroding sorrow of regret: all are evoked in the saturated colors that have sometimes been missing from the company’s New York repertory season this summer.
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