Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike in melodrama, the hero in tragedy "is not only an angel, but also a" the critic said in his next to last Charles Eliot Norton lecture. He described melodrama and farce--the "lower" dramatic forms--as "childish," while and comedy are more "grown-up." "The high forms can be distinguished the low by a respect for reality," Bentley maintained...
...Jews call a midrash. A midrash is a passage of explanatory commentary on the Scripture -either in analytical, legal terms (Halacha) or dramatic, legendary terms (Haggada). Into the latter category the so-called Midrash Theory puts the Gospel narrative of the birth of Jesus-including such episodes as the angel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin of her miraculous conception, and the beloved story about the journey of the Wise Men from the East to Jesus' birthplace in Bethlehem...
...educated American Catholics," according to Jesuit Francis L. Filas, chairman of the department of theology at Chicago's Loyola University, writing in The Priest. "Shock and surprise have occurred" among "priests, nuns, college students, and even the general public," says Father Filas, from such statements as: "1) The angel Gabriel never made any annunciation to Mary. Luke's account is a pious meditation enlarging on the single fact of the Incarnation, which is the only fact of which we can be certain in Luke's story...
Four characters, bound for Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, constitute Mr. Cole's instruments in his tussle with the fates. The Bishop expresses a worldly skepticism; the Merchant an enthusiastic nihilism; the Baron is the only truly faithful mortal of the bunch; and the Angel, determined but confused, finally tumbles into the water instead of soaring into the Christian empyrean. Mr. Cole tries to make his characters palatable by casting a thin gauze of mockery over the entire apparatus. This technique, though well handled, fails to disguise the essential fatuity of his conception, for though the play is witty...
...inverted the structure of the Miracle Play, placing the emphasis on the pagans and the thieves, giving the Christians at most a tenth of the lines. And before and after the beheading, torture, crucifixion, or any other horrific maltreatment of the Christian Crusaders, Bodel has a sweetly smiling Angel descend to the stage to tell them about the better life to which they are, forthwith, going...