Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love-anything-critically, angrily and happily, however I felt," says Miss Daničková. "But when I came home, it was silence. You couldn't really participate in the life of your country. Now you can." Another Czechoslovak who found that he could come home again is Author Ladislav Mriačko, who went into exile last summer in protest over his government's pro-Arab policy. Mnačko is back in Prague, where his biting novel about a Communist leader's downfall, The Taste of Power, has just been published for the first time...
Between the two came Androcles and the Lion (1911-12). For this, Shaw took his basic plot from an ancient tale related by the second-century Latin author Aulus Gellius. Shaw changed Gellius' Androclus, who was a Roman and a slave, into Androcles, who was a Greek, a tailor, and a Christian...
Before I indicate how this has been accomplished, let me suggest some of the problems. The celebrated critic Hazlitt began his comments on the play with these words: "If we were to part with any of the author's comedies, it should be this." Certainly the work ranks near the bottom in the Shakespearean canon...
...know that it was performed before Queen Elizabeth and her court in 1597. But there is good evidence that this was a revision of an original written in 1588, which would make it the earliest of Shakespeare's plays to survive. Regardless of its date, it betrays an author who was dramaturgically unsure of himself...
Furthermore, Love's Labour's Lost is the most topical of all the plays. In it Shakespeare parodies the euphemistic style of John Lyly (who is today not exactly a widely read author), and lampoons a number of the verbal fads and affectations of the late sixteenth century. It is stuffed with what its leading character, Berowne, describes as "Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise./Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,/Figures pedantical." And there are hundreds of puns, many be-labored mercilessly. How many of today's theatregoers relish extended puns on long-obsolete terms for a male deer of the second...