Word: boccaccio
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Decameron Nights. Spicy stories by Boccaccio: with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (TIME...
Decameron Nights. Spicy stories by Boccaccio; with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (TIME...
Decameron Nights. Spicy stories by Boccaccio; with Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan (TIME...
When directors undertake to dust off Shakespeare plots, the noise of the vacuum cleaner all too often drowns out the play, but Director Tyrone Guthrie, a veteran of the Old Vic, never allows that to happen. The story of All's Well, lifted from Boccaccio, is about Helena, a poor physician's daughter married by royal command to a snobbish young count. The groom runs off to the wars before the wedding day has even reached the cocktail hour. The rest of the play tells how Helena plots her way into her husband's bedchamber and eventually...
...thought that such books should be barred from the newsstands and put out of reach of children. Duffy invited them to appear before the Dubuque grand jury and state their case, countered by sending two officers to the public library with a warrant for the seizure of copies of Boccaccio's Decameron, Fielding's Tom Jones and some of Rabelais' works...