Word: elizabethan
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...Wright plays the Chorus, John Gower, with a comic subtlety which is a delightful change from Elizabethan bombastics. Like the rest of the cast he spares the audience inexpert attempts at British English, a wise decision on the part of the director Kathy Placzek. Wright's part is an open trap to overacting, but he makes no attempt to steal attention from the action of the play. Diana Chase plays a superbly wicked Dionyza, which she accents with a very low neckline and feline movements. It is probably unfair to list the attributes of the principals, for this cast shares...
...from precisely such uncomfortable facts that mouthings about moral schizophrenia shield their speakers. The phrase "tragic war in Vietnam," has become a near proverb among Liberals. But "tragic" has no definite meaning; it doesn't refer to Aristotle's rules of drama, or Elizabethan concepts of the rise and fall of statesmen, or anything like that. Insofar as it means anything at all, it means "sad." Accordingly, the phrase is given out in subdued undertones, as though a dead man with a brokenhearted widow were weeping in the next room. It is used as if in reference to an accident...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS (Lecture Hall). The Camerata presents An Elizabethan Evening. Music of Weelkes, Wilby, Dowland, and Byrd...
...Japan, in Elizabethan England, and in North America, where St. Isaac Jogues was tomahawked by the Iroquois?and where the British put prices on Jesuit heads...
...Mafia assassin seeking asylum. The left sleeve of his green knit pullover bunches around some unspeakable wound of a hand. The yarn in the shoulder stretches obscenely over his hump. His cheeks quiver with little tics. His lips pout in private arrangements of humor and rage. When he speaks, Elizabethan English seems to acquire a Sicilian accent: Shakespeare out of The Godfather...