Word: elizabethanism
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Settlement of Duty. Last week, after long and hard dickering among legal experts and art connoisseurs, he reached a settlement with the Treasury by which, as a $3,360,000 installment on his inheritance tax, he will hand over Hardwick Hall, one of the finest Elizabethan mansions in existence, together with its 934-acre park, and eight major works of art from the Chatsworth collection, including works by Rembrandt, Memling. Holbein and Van Dyck. The paintings will go to British museums. Hardwick Hall will be administered by the National Trust, and be open to the public four days a week...
...matters under the pretext that they are specifically religious, and therefore not 'classical,' though they matter essentially to the common treasure of culture. The writings of the Fathers of the Church are an integral part of the humanities as well as, or more than, those of the Elizabethan dramatists." The traditional classical concept of the humanities is both narrow and provincial, for today's humanities must reach beyond the Western world to embrace-just as does Christianity-the total human experience. "Our watchword should be enlargement, Christian-inspired enlargement, not narrowing, even Christian-centered narrowing...
...This Elizabethan description of nomadic Persians (from Hakluyt's Principal Voyages) would have been accurate in the time of Herodotus (circa 484-425 B.C.) and was still accurate in A.D. 1926, when Persia's modern-minded Reza Shah Pahlavi began his reign, set about freeing the women of their veils, ordered the men into Western suits and decided that nomadic existence was "a blot on his progressive country." Harried by the Shah's troops, the nomadic tribes "settled," but in 1941, when Reza was forced to abdicate after the Allies moved into Persia, the tribes went back...
...verge of creating a new, great theatre. We have today a larger number of good, if not great, playwrights than at any other time, with the possible exception of the Elizabethan era. It all depends on understanding the actor, on training our audiences to know what acting really is," Strasberg stated...
...straight Plays presented, sixteen were major productions, fourteen were Theatre Work-shop productions (exactly half of which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...