Word: iseult
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...made to "relive the whole of history in a single night's sleep." He is a pubkeeper named Porter, but his Freudian alias in the dream is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Why Earwicker? Well, Porter's night life is invaded by an incestuous passion for his daughter Isobel (Iseult-Isolde). The inadmissible word "incest" sneaks by as "insect," specifically "earwig." Thus the odd name, says Burgess, is "dreamily appropriate...
...ROMANCE OF TRISTAN AND ISEULT, retold by Joseph Bédier; translated from the French by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld; illustrated by Serge Ivanoff (172 pp.; Heritage; $6). If 13-year-old girls still come in the shy, quiet variety, this prettily done-up edition of the old Celtic tale should be an ideal present. It is full of sadness and magic, and it rings (as Padraic Colum observes in his introduction ) with the voice of the singer and the sound of the harp...
...sampling, the new age proved to have a strong flavor of the past: Choreographer Ashton chose as his subject the legend of Tristram and Iseult. But he gave it a twist, and the audience found it all fresh and pleasant...
...begun to look hopeless, both romantically and dance-wise, the indiscreet lovers drink to each other, and go into a magic-potion trance. The stage darkens, the ruins of Tintagel fly up, the dusters, derbies and veils come off, and in a flash the trippers have turned into Tristram, Iseult, King Mark & Co., all revealed in brilliant medieval array...
...legendary story works itself out in a lyrical dance duet by the lovers (Diana Adams, Jacques d'Amboise), a sword fight between Tristram and the cuckolded king (Francisco Moncion). Then, as Tristram and Iseult lie adying, the stage darkens again, the ruins of Tintagel descend, and the dancers don their dusters, derbies and veils. They wander off, wondering whether it was a dream...