Word: elizabethans
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YOUR OWN THING adds beat to the Bard as it madly mixes media, and mischievously juxtaposes Elizabethan and modern attitudes for a grooving replay of Twelfth Night...
...almost any standard, Neil Rudenstine is the Successful Teacher. He is friendly and witty and handsome. At 33, he is assistant professor of English at Harvard, giving his own upper-level courses in Elizabethan English Literature, as well as sharing the guidance of Hum 6 with venerable Reuben Brower. He has studied at Princeton (where he graduated summa cum laude in 1956) and Oxford (where he went as a Rhodes Scholar for three years) and Harvard (where he got his Ph.D...
...Noah Greenberg died in 1966, has no intention of abandoning such efforts. In fact he plans more: the group will soon start rehearsals for a production of Jacopo Peri's 1600 opera Euridice, the earliest opera for which all the music has been preserved, and is preparing an Elizabethan masque for next season...
...text for production, As You Like It is something of a problem. It brims with sticky plot points and minor discrepancies. It sports a resolution more arbitrary than most. More important, much of its action hinges on Shakespeare's imitation and parody of a goodly number of Elizabethan stage conventions and philosophical commonplaces. Some of the comedy depends for its force on witty allusions, now sadly obscure...
...lute, a 14-string, potbellied cousin of the guitar whose more delicate strains went out of fashion two centuries ago, Bream has a special capacity to enliven the courtly archaisms of the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. This is not only a matter of musicianship but of an instinctive sympathy for the older period's flavor, style, and more restrained decibel level. He reads about the era voraciously, fancies that he might have felt right at home in it. "I strum one chord on the lute," he says wistfully, "and I go back 400 years...