Word: elizabethan
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...that nobody can hear him. Hastings' head doesn't exactly bounce, but it doesn't exactly terrify either, and why Richard's unfortunate nephews should be so unmistakeably female is a mystery deeper than any of Richard's plots. Possibly someone with a misplaced sense of justice knew that Elizabethan theaters cast boys as women and thought that turn bout is fair play...
...secure that bloody heart, and the contradictions cannot always be contained as Sophocles goes one way and Langham another. The nice English-repertory accents that lurk beneath those animal skins are also jarring, and above the Afro-Greek beat of Stanley Silverman's score, one hears the vaguely Elizabethan cadence of Burgess's script. But Langham's sacrifice is worth it. He has taken 20th century audiences, prepared to yawn and genuflect obediently before a dead classic, and shaken them to the bottom of their atavistic souls. He has created an Oedipus that bleeds and thus lives...
...Shakespeare. Apply the argument in reverse. Tennessee Williams has given us remarkable and far from unsympathetic in-depth portraits of women. Does that make him profeminist? If Shakespeare did not lavish his hugest genius on women, it is probably because female roles were played by boys on the Elizabethan stage, and not because he was a homosexual, a supposition Fiedler makes yet again on the basis of the sonnets...
...timbered tower behind their house. In a neighborhood of housing-development bungalows, it is an astonishing sight. Marilyn Durham says that when Eleanor Perry writes to her describing things like the purple mountains of Monaco, "I sigh and look out at the clothesline." But she is gazing from an Elizabethan redoubt...
...Reformation gained strength, Taverner abandoned Catholicism and became notorious as an agent of Thomas Cromwell who allegedly specialized in persecuting Catholic priests and burning their monasteries. To Davies, Taverner is a tragic figure in that his revolutionary zeal led him to turn his back on his artistic gifts. The Elizabethan historian John Foxe wrote that Taverner "repented him very much that he had made songs to popish ditties in the times of his blindness." But Davies maintains that the music Taverner wrote prior to his conversion was "as fine as anything written in Europe at the time, and constitutes some...