Word: five-act
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poems a day. From the first his verse was simple, sensual, strong; though he rarely employed a metaphor, he continually induced his readers to produce their own images, to feel in their bodies what appeared on the page. At 22, in a violent convulsion of composition, he produced a five-act farrago called Götz von Berlichingen that read like second-rate Shakespeare but made him famous overnight as a leader in a new literary movement called Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress...
...Condemned of Altona. Hating Hitlerism is like opposing poison ivy. It is a sensible thing to do, but at this late date it is a difficult thing to do in an original or even interesting way. In The Condemned of Altona, a five-act drama produced four years ago in Paris, Philosopher-Playwright Jean-Paul Sartre almost turned the trick. His play transformed turgid history into skillful theater and tired slogans into existential epigrams. This film, adapted freely from the drama, presents even more impressive credentials. It is directed by Vittorio De Sica. It stars, along with Fredric March...
...fact is, "The Winter's Tale" just isn't a good play. If Shakespeare's name weren't on it, nobody would pay any attention to this stock, five-act, heavy "comedy," which not only misses its classical unity of time by 16 years, but loses faith with its audience by reviving the dead...
...Aloysius; he used to sign himself Jas. A. Joyce. During his first visit to Paris, when he was 20, he often had no food for 40 hours at a stretch, was speechless with toothache when he did eat. At around 19, under the influence of Ibsen, he wrote a five-act play-lost-which he dedicated to his own soul. (His father, reading that in bed one night, bawled "Holy Paul!") Passing the Arc de Triomphe, Valery Larbaud asked him how long he thought the Eternal Flame would burn. "Until the Unknown Soldier gets up in disgust and blows...
...Theatre. One bedrock essential that Welles & Houseman apparently lacked was cash. But after a succession of muffled death-rattles backstage, the Mercury came to its first play's first night. On November 11 it produced Julius Caesar. On November 12 the public was informed that Shakespeare's five-act classic had: 1) been turned into a one-act cyclone, 2) on a bare stage, 3) in modern dress, 4) with a modern meaning, 5) gone over with the loudest bang that Shakespeare-lovers could recall. And decidedly First in Rome had been Director Orson Welles for managing...