Word: fops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fop to Martyr. Like many of Shakespeare's plays, Richard II is a journey of inner transformation. As Prince Hal moves from tavern playboy to patriot King, so Richard moves from self-indulgent fop to martyr. Chamberlain accomplishes this with masterly gradations. His early Richard walks with a kind of saucy flippancy. When he banishes Bolingbroke and Mowbray from the realm, it is not so much with imperial ire as petulant impatience. He has already gained in gravity when he later drops to the ground and fondles the soil of England: "Dear earth, I do salute thee with...
...Spanish skirts, roistering toreadors and intricate incidental dancing in the market square in search of Dulcinea. The Don thinks he finds the lady disguised as a saucy innkeeper's daughter, but from there on Cervantes is left far behind. The daughter, who is to marry a rich old fop, really yearns for a poor barber (Nureyev). The lovers flee, the old knight pursues, and much horseplay and some lovely dancing ensue. What everyone came to see was Nureyev, who (except for an all but transparent set of tights) kept himself unexpectedly unobtrusive until Act III, when he showed...
...audience and a blue cutout doily. It is the serpent in Eden. "This," Andersen scribbled under it, "is the snake of knowledge, representing both good and evil." The dilemma of coming to grips with any work of art became the subject of another image, "Art and the Critic"-a fop peers through a lorgnette at a mocking head faceted with many small variants of the same face that peer from within-all invented, it seems, by the writer at work in his cell in the creature's neck. The critic can see the face, not what lies behind...