Word: dramatist
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...this theme lapse into ponderous, and therefore ineffective, moralizing. But when our grosser sins, not only our foibles, are presented to us with wit and grace we take notice. Often the barbed needles of the comic writer pierce far deeper than the heavy blows of the ostensiby more serious dramatist...
...this play Shakespeare stretched his reach as nowhere else. Indeed no other dramatist has ever taken on so huge and so impossible a task for the stage--not even Goethe with his Faust or Wagner with his Ring of the Nibelungen. Lear cannot achieve total success in performance; nor can Faust. But is this any reason to side with all those who continue to say they shouldn't be tried? With both works, enough is viable to warrant the attempt...
...belonged to John Buckstone, an actor-dramatist turned manager who took over the Haymarket in 1853, remained in the capacity of manager until three years before his death in 18-79. He called on Margaret Rutherford, or so she affirms, last year, when she and her husband were staying overnight in the theater during her appearance in School for Scandal...
Really the opera concerns itself only with the monk's search for his daughter. Pelagia's conversion seems off-stage and is dwarfed by the reunion with her father in the final scene--a disgracefully pointless ending for an experienced dramatist like Cole. The libretto's simple-minded images ("today I went wandering as a bird") and pompous archaisms (the story is "for them that have an eye to see") deaden the opera still further. The characters emerge as cute Sunday school paste...
Womanologist & Mesmerist. His later life, as Biographer William Schack describes it, was a pathetic and half-demented tirade against the way the world had treated him. He was, after all, an "artist, author, composer, dramatist, globetrotter, improvisatore, womanologist, librettist, inventor, mesmerist." He had been, he told the world, the champion of everything, from shooting to pole vaulting; he was one of the world's great lovers, though "a genius gets tired of a girl in two months." As for other painters, he had no use for "this Picasso-basso fellow," or for "Bellini-meaney," or for Michelangelo ("nyeh, nyeh...