Word: claudio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reprobates, fops, split-second marriages, and a Duke ex machina, Measure for Measure is a grabbag of Elizabethan dramatic tricks. Set in Vienna where, in the absence of the Duke, the deputy Angelo is ruling with impeccable stridency, the play is loosely concerned with the fate of the libertine, Claudio, who must pay for an indiscretion with his head in order to serve notice that the law long lax under the Duke, now has new metal in it. As Claudio awaits execution in his jail cell, however, the real plot begins. Claudio's sister, Isabelle, pleads for mercy...
...Isabelle's refusal to yield to Angelo's desires condemns her brother to death and even in the context of 17th-century Christianity, it comes off as little more than brutality, and Angelo's subsequent breach of his promise, as he orders Claudio's execution, is utterly despicable. Even when the Duke returns in disguise of a friar, and devises an elaborate plan to save Isabelle's honor, spare Claudio's head, and unmask the culprits--his plan is so strangely convoluted--a series of lesser sins to offset greater crimes--that it is barely within the letter, and certainly...
...Angel Claudio is a lucky young man. The legal system, which has become a system of technicalities, works for him and not for justice. What more does the system need than a confession and some evidence to back up the case? The law has become a game between lawyers...
...City last spring. The story told of a Queens high school honor student, three weeks away from graduation, who dropped off his date after a prom and then, while walking home, was shot to death on a quiet street. A week later, one of his three young assailants - Angel Claudio, a 16-year-old tenth-grade dropout - found a lawyer in the Yellow Pages and surrendered to police, admitting that he had accidentally shot the victim with a .38-cal. pistol when the student resisted an attempt to take his ring. Within a few days, one of the accomplices retained...
...sequel to I, Claudius? Part 2 of Caligula? No, an opera: Claudio Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, first performed in 1642 in Venice. History's first great opera, Poppea is infrequently performed not because of the plot, which set a high standard of treachery and lubricity, but because of the special demands of Baroque convention, which included the casting of castrati in principal roles. Further, the musical idiom of early 17th century opera sounds strange to audiences accustomed to the ripe lyricism of Bellini, Verdi and Puccini...