Word: elizabethan
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...until now, the standard Jewish translation for the English-speaking world. The strength and selling point of the new Bible, rendered directly from Hebrew to English, is that it ignores the wording of all past Christian translations and turns Holy Writ into fresh, understandable contemporary language instead of Elizabethan English. The Holy Scriptures is drawn solely from the Masoretic text in Hebrew, which evolved into its present form by the 10th century and is Judaism's only official scriptural standard. By comparison, Christian translators consult a variety of scrolls and codices in Hebrew and other ancient languages in order...
...fellow Victorians of an England darker and madder than anything in literature since Lear roamed the heath. The novelist made contemporary by film (Tess) and television (The Mayor of Casterbridge) was born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient superstitions and druidic spells...
...this emotionally rife history is still well taught in British schools. "The English think that the most important event of the Elizabethan age," explains Anglican Historian Henry Chadwick, who is also an adviser to Archbishop Runcie, "was the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, when the King of Spain sent a fleet to conquer the English ships and to invade and impose Roman Catholicism on the people. When people say the Pope ought not to come, they are saying that something like the Spanish Armada is on our doorstep again. They have a notion that one last ship...
...traveled to the hinterlands, people mistook the troupe for the June Taylor Dancers from the Jackie Gleason Show. The confusion ended at curtain time. Then, instead of metronomic chorines, the stage was peopled with muscular, disciplined dancers falling, posturing and accelerating to everything from Bach to Cage. Dressed as Elizabethan figures or satyrs in evening clothes, or in nothing more than bath towels, the company disturbed as many as it dazzled...
...middle of 1,400-acre Balboa Park, the mock-Elizabethan building looks from the outside somewhat the way Shakespeare's own Globe was supposed to look, with leaded windows, half-timbering and a second floor jutting out over the first. It is too cute, but it is not offensive. Whatever sins have been committed on the outside have been made up for on the inside, however, where Scenic Designer Richard Hay has devised what seems to be an ideal theatrical space: 581 comfortable seats for the audience, a thrust stage for the actors, and ample room for producers...