Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three stories each under the rubrics East and West. The first group, set in his native India, consists of simple village anecdotes, reminiscent of similar work by the contemporary master R.K. Narayan. The Western stories display a deft but slightly arid Postmodernism, particularly a Tristram Shandy-esque retelling of Hamlet...
...theory, Paul was better qualified to be Pope, by training and experience, than any other 20th century Pontiff. In practice, he proved nervous, hesitant and indecisive. He simply could not make up his mind. John had foreseen this; he had a word for his successor: Amleto (Shakespeare's Hamlet). Under this wavering and unlucky Pope, the postconciliar church went off the rails. All over the world, but particularly in the Americas and Europe, discipline became shaky or even broke down. Thousands of priests gave up their vocations and married. Nuns took to feminism. Quasi heresies like Liberation Theology became...
...leaders of Israel's settlement movement are preparing for a fight over Netzarim, and have called for "active resistance," as yet undefined, to any effort to uproot the hamlet. Given Rabin's position, the campaign may be , premature -- but not by much. "Anybody with brains in his head knows that when it comes to the final status," says Dromi, "some settlements will have to go." Netzarim will probably lead the list...
Like the Bard, Friel has warmed to the human condition as he develops as a playwright. His latest play, Dancing at Lughnasa, presents as different a perspective on the world from that of his first play, Faith Healer, as The Tempest does from Hamlet. The themes--of the ambiguity, uncertainty and misunderstanding that wrack our lives--endure. But in Dancing at Lughnasa, through the sordid banality and chaos, Friel strikes an indulgent, optimistic note...
...common fallacy to assume that musical comedies are simply plays in which, for some unaccountable reason, some of the words are sung instead of spoken. But to judge any serious music-theater work as if it aspired to be Hamlet or Death of a Salesman is wrong. Even in the heyday of Harrigan and Hart and Cohan, it was the music and the production numbers that drove the action. Who today remembers the plot of a single Gershwin show? True, it was Hammerstein who condensed Ferber and gave her characters sharp, affecting lyrics to sing. But it was Kern...