Word: noblewoman
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...response was historic. Soon after Beatrice's death, Dante published La Vita Nuova (The New Life), a history of his passion that was interspersed with some of the purest love lyrics in the language. Some time before 1294, still in his 20s, Dante married a Florentine noblewoman named Gemma Donati, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. He also instituted a series of sensual liaisons, and to one of these women he wrote some of the most ferocious love poetry ever penned...
...stage, half-enclosed by the audience, provides the intimacy that Strindberg felt was needed for a sensitive performance of the play. Working from this solid structural foundation, directress Marsha Hutchinson has captured brilliantly the wide range and staccato alternation of moods that mark the degeneration of Julie, a Swedish noblewoman...
...Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. The Lincoln Center Repertory Theater is working its way from mediocrity to absurdity. This season's starter is an Elizabethan plotboiler full of sex, gore and lunacy. As Beatrice, a noblewoman of Spain, Barbara Loden is not on speaking terms with her lines, and the rest of the cast is unspeakable, except for Barry Primus, who plays Beatrice's low-born hatchetman and seducer. The message of the evening seems to be that a girl may love the man she loathes. It does not hold for a playgoer...
Married. Maurice Herzog, 45, leader of the 1950 conquest of the Himalayas' 26,502-ft. Mount Annapurna, now director of De Gaulle's physical fitness program; and Countess Maríe Pierre de Cossé-Brissac, 39, French noblewoman; he for the first time; she for the second; in Paris...
Moliere's Dandin does not so much tell a story as examine a set of related topics. Its three acts are essentially a series of analytical variations on a theme. The central situation is easily stated: a rich bourgeois tradesman is married to a beautiful young noblewoman, who cuckolds; him by striking up with a passing youth but is always clever enough to make her husband seem in the wrong...