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...Prospero's rejection of vengeance for virtue is a parallel to his rejection of supernatural power for temporal sway. Neither shift should be happenstance. In Mayer's interpretation both appear so (as Daniel Seltzer played it, Prospero's decision to greet the waking lords in his ducal, not his magician's robes, seemed an incidental thought...
Mayer's interpretation of Prospero's decisions to forgive his enemies and to change his magic for his ducal staff is particularly surprising in view of the care with which he has Prospero plan the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda. Seltzer's hidden joy--"It works"--and pretended severity as the couple provide some of the nicest touches in his characterization of the wise old mage. It is hard to believe Prospero could be so happily engineering a dynastic marriage, while plotting the permanent destruction of the head of the opposite house...
First he had the beastly taste to turn the family's ancestral Woburn Abbey into a ducal Disneyland, with a zoo and souvenir stands. Now Britain's merrily huckstering peer, John, Duke of Bedford, 48, is peddling The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, a 142-page guide to gate crashing the Establishment, in which he details his rules on the names one should have (Rodney is "not so good today"); on accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them...
...expanding, said the architect, "like an open hand." There is no façade or front door: ambulance boats can dock conveniently under the hospital at gondola ports. As much an adaptation of the Swiss lake villages, which Swiss-born Corbu knows well, as a ducal palace or a gondola garage, the design should please Venetians. Yet, however harmonious this adventuring architecture, there is still much bureaucratic approval to survive. San Giobbe hospital refers, of course, to Job. And for the sick as well as for an architect wishing to build in Venice, Job's patience is an ideal...
Empress of Rome. Born in 1567, the son of a physician of Cremona, Claudio Monteverdi quickly nudged the Italian Renaissance out of its hidebound musical stance. As a young master of the madrigal under the patronage of the ducal Gonzaga family of Mantua, he met with success but grew weary of music's rigid rules. The seesaw violin bored him, so he invented the tremolo and pizzicato...