Word: dramatistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shocked by such folly, but eventually, the amiable Emperor gave his approval. The new opera was Le Nozze di Figaro. So began the greatest collaboration in operatic history. To this day, says British Biographer April FitzLyon, nobody quite knows why "the facile, mediocre poet, the very inexperienced dramatist, should be the man who, above all others, succeeded in providing Mozart with the perfect framework for his music." One possible explanation is that a better poet than Da Ponte might have been less willing to bow to Mozart's stern dictum: "In an opera the poetry must be altogether...
...bingen University), Speidel is a cultivated specimen of the oldtime German general staffer. On his desk he keeps two photographs-one of the late General Ludwig Beck, the stiff-backed martinet who headed the German general staff 20 years ago, the other of turn-of-the-century German Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann...
...focusing down to this controversial theme, ABC's Omnibus this week brought big historical drama to television. Lee at Gettysburg, a 78-minute play written in lucid, often eloquent blank verse by young (35) TV Dramatist Alvin Sapinsley, opposed the general's two chief subordinates like tongs of a forceps with which to lay bare and probe Lee's fatal flaw...
...From a dramatist's point of view, the Scopes trial is very much a Good Thing, because it brought together two magnificent figures--William Jennings Bryan and the great lawyer, Clarence Darrow. As an added attraction there was H.L. Mencken, who reported the story for his Baltimore newspaper. The climax of the play comes in the confrontation scene between the two giants, when the quiet, gallus-snapping Darrow, acting for the defense, calls prosecutor Bryan to the witness chair and exposes his Bible-belting oratory as so much hot air. A most exciting scene, this, and much of the excitement...
...whole, Biographer Ervine has written a solid, slow, yet readable account. It is duller, but more complete, than Hesketh Pearson's brilliant portrait (1950). And it firmly supports Shaw's claim to being the greatest dramatist in the English language since Shakespeare-a claim recently supported by his erratic fellow Irishman, Sean O'Casey. Wrote O'Casey in a memorable tribute: "Look at the Theatre as it was . . . So sob-sisterly, so stupid, so down to dust was the Theatre then that God turned his back to it, made for Shaw, caught him by the beard...