Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confusingly, Giulietta's perceptions grow so extravagantly heightened that they blur the line between reality and fantasy, and depolarization occurs. The rich, constantly bedazzling frieze of effects finally becomes an end in itself, resulting in a curiously empty drama. Instead of deepening the character of his heroine as he...
There are flaws. Richard, for instance, is meant to be a bright and appealing 11-year-old boy, but he sometimes sounds like a greybeard. "That's an ancient philosophical problem," he says to Joey in response to the latter's observation that "the ideal and the real...
Royal Hunt is just as purely an epic as is the lliad (and one could point out numerous parallels between the two). It also shows high quality in all six departments postulated by Aristotle for tragedy: plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, song. Shaffer says he was aiming for "total this...
Shaffer has, however, departed in certain instances from Prescott. Some deviations are inconsequential details, but others are important. Shaffer has moved the murder of Atahuallpa's brother Huascar ahead in time. And he has made Pizarro eventually a more sympathetic character than emerges from Prescott, who rightly stated that "the...
Plummer drives far into the complex character Shaffer has provided him. The gruffness is there, but so is the melancholy. The outward conflicts are there, but so are the just as real ones within him. He does wonders with the large number of Pizarro's short ariosos, marvelously rhythmed and...