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...Duchess of Malfi, currently showing on the Loeb mainstage, is a solid production of an extremely disturbing work. Now, I like to be disturbed--Disability, Escaped, Blue Window and House of Blue Leaves are among the better plays I have seen performed at Harvard--but this went...
...pokes threateningly at a woman's crotch with a knife. In another scene a man straddles a sobbing woman, pinning her to the floor. "You should thank me!" he shouts over and over again as he kisses her violently. A later scene entails a fight between the Duchess and her brother in which the knife is again brought out. First he drags it suggestively in front of her throat. Then he gives it to her explaining that she should kill herself. An argument ensues during which the crying Duchess is held in a choke hold. In the second...
...wasn't good enough for Neil Rudenstine--he cut out at halftime. But this may have been an ominous mistake for the future president of Harvard, because this production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi deserved to keep most people planted in their seats...
...work of this "king of painters and painter of kings" attracted every serious patron in Italy and half the military leaders and crowned heads of Europe. The roster of his clients and portrait subjects reads like a list of international society in the 16th century: the Duke and Duchess of Urbino, Alfonso d'Este, Duke Federigo of Mantua, Ippolito de' Medici, several ancient and cunning Popes, doges, admirals, art dealers, intellectuals. Even those who were deadly enemies, like Francis I of France and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, had in common the fact of having been painted by Titian...
...lawyer?" "A Doberman"); a couple of philosophical digressions ("Liquor, once you're hooked on it, is a hard habit to break. Like God, Henry thought . . ."); some manic riffs on fame ("That dumbbell the Duke of Windsor he threw in the sponge for a tart. You want the Duke and Duchess for a charity ball, you rent them like a tux from Tip-Top"); and the most furiously original cast of buccaneers, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and whackos north of Niagara Falls...