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...clad in knee-length trousers, stockings and ruffled collars, and women in elegant Elizabethan dresses, converged on the steps of Memorial Church to kick off the 11th annual Arts First celebration yesterday...
...temple, bongo drum and headdresses made of pheasant feathers do not immediately bring Shakespeare to mind. But in Richard III, which opens on the Loeb Mainstage this weekend under the direction of Kenneth P. Herrera ’03, the Aztec empire will serve as the backdrop to the Elizabethan historical tragedy...
...people. The tale he tells is astonishing - but what really astounds is Ferguson's glowing praise. Contemporary historians routinely decry the Empire's sins; Ferguson celebrates it for dragging the world into the modern age. As an economist, Ferguson is particularly good at explaining how the assets seized by Elizabethan buccaneers fed, in the 18th century, the habits of an emergent consumer society hooked then as now on sugar, coffee and tobacco; how Britain evolved a system of national debt to build a vast navy; how the East India Company's ports and forts seeded a global system of trade...
Some say that the holy books of the great western faiths were written by God through the hand of man. But maybe all of these great religions are wrong. Perhaps God was truly waiting to write through the hand of an Elizabethan poet. Perhaps, if we can truly understand this greatest of works, our self-understanding will be complete. Perhaps this is His true Revelation, set before us in an infinitely-layered riddle, a Gordian knot that not even the sword of Alexander could hope to break. And the genius of the riddle is that though it can never...
...river then drops about 4 m to a landing where court officials bathed. Beyond that, the water cascades another 20 m and creates a pool where the masses once washed. As in the days of Elizabethan theater in London, when the best seats in the house?those closest to the stage?were inexplicably given to peasants, the Khmer commoners enjoyed the most beautiful section of the cascades, where a majestic sunlit waterfall streams through dense jungle growth. Today, Khmer families pass leisurely afternoons here: children frolic, and Buddhist monks crouch along the river downstream to wash their orange robes...