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The handling of the Jack Cade rebellion was… a serious failure of imagination… Cade was without color or vigor; enacted by a performer with a thick New York accent (which was not used… for comic heightening), Cade seemed witless, and the scenes of the short-lived revolution were staged haltingly and unexcit-ingly… Nicholas Kepros’ Henry VI was a fine achievement. His restrained, even serene, performance, provided a sturdy calm at the center of the prevailing disorder … Paul Sparer proved himself equal to the grateful part of the Duke of York… Miss Caruso’s Margaret was a real achievement; she was the only character who aged convincingly. (Foster Hirsch, Shakespeare Quarterly 21 [1970]: 478–79)
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© 2010 Katharine Goodland and John O’Connor
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Goodland, K., O’Connor, J. (2010). Henry VI Part Two. In: A Directory of Shakespeare in Performance, 1970–1990. A Directory of Shakespeare in Performance Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-60041-0_49
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