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...that sentiment. “These gestures towards popular culture are actually elite in a very flip, ironic way,” he says. This elite interest in the lowbrow might be seen as a new permutation of what Kaufman says el-ites did with Shakespeare during the nineteenth century.“Up until then Shakespeare was for everyone, and it was a very ribald affair so long as the sex jokes were hammed up,” he says. “Only in the nineteenth century did elites try to make [Shake-speare] something for highbrows...
...affair that Burstein’s writing really thrives. Jefferson is portrayed as a political ideologue stuck in a dilemma—on the one hand advocating the equality of all men, and on the other owning slaves and repeatedly expressing no support for abolition efforts in the early nineteenth century...
...horses.” Beyond these equestrian pieces are animals as diverse as the monkey, tiger, and snake. Animals of the fantasy world include the dragon and phoenix. In “Dragon amid Clouds,” a hanging scroll from the Choson dynasty of Korea in the nineteenth century, an orange and green dragon is offset by black and white clouds. The dragon, a celebrated animal in East Asia, is chasing a wish-granting Buddhist symbol in this scroll. “Dragons in the West are considered evil, whereas in Asia they are thought of as benevolent...
...PRODUCERS: Emma Katz ’06, Casey M. Lurtz ’07, Frances C. Moore ’06 The program notes for “Ruddigore” note that the original title, “Ruddygore” was deemed too racy by the nineteenth century standards, because of its similarity to the phrase “bloody gore,” which was altogether too disturbing for audiences at the time. Such Victorian sensibility pervades the work of Gilbert & Sullivan, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Players faithfully recreate it—from the singing...
...you’re really not,’” jokes director J. Jacob Krause about his scrawny actors. “The script is talking about things that don’t really [exist] onstage.”“WELCOME, GENTRY”Nineteenth-century operatic parodies of Gothic literature may sound more like a freshman seminar than an evening of college entertainment. But the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) manage two highly entertaining productions every year since their founding in1956.After last night’s opening, “Ruddigore?...