Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot concerns the trials of a Slovakian peasant girl named Katrena whose lover is found murdered in a forest clearing. At first suspected, Katrena is later cleared and promptly marries an earlier suitor named Ondrej. When she bears a child ahead of schedule, Ondrej flies into a jealous rage, reveals in a drunken soliloquy that he is the murderer, later confesses publicly. Katrena retires with her bastard child to live with old Stelina, father of her lover, and the chorus, as commentator on the action, concludes that "life sings of joy and sorrow...
...story goes, assassins hired by a prominent Venetian (whose mistress Stradella had carried off) caught up with him in a church where one of his oratorios was being performed; the music so moved the henchmen that they warned the composer and let him escape. But when a jealous actress sent other assassins after him in Genoa, no music was being played-or the assassins were not musical-and Stradella, only 37, was murdered...
...Venice likes to guess at what goes on behind the blank white walls of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, a curiously truncated structure that jealous city officials stopped at mid-construction in the 18th century for fear that it would dwarf the city hall across the way. Up from the gondola landing stands Sculptor Marino Marini's strident Angel of the City (1948), a youth on horseback equipped with a detachable phallus that is respectfully removed whenever the Patriarch of Venice floats by to bless the city. Inside the palazzo, behind a 12-ft., barbed-wire-topped wall, lies...
...impotent. At once husbands contemptuously allow him access to their wives, and soon the secretly gloating Horner has a harem. From Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, Wycherley took his ingenuous young country wife, who is not quite carefully enough guarded by a jealous husband, and who proves as eager a pupil as Horner is a teacher...
...music, and dancing, Yeats tried to build a ritual pattern, every part of which must be fully apprehended before the play can be understood. Even then, the story of a poet who chooses a mysterious queen as the ideal figure of his verses, only to be beheaded by her jealous husband, is open to a multitude of different interpretations. But Liam Clancy, the poet, and Lew Petterson, the king, do violence to Yeats' poetry by speaking in a falsely declamatory manner. And John Lancaster's music usually conceals the playwright's words rather than underlining them...