Word: plantagenet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lyricist, and so they parted professional company. "I'm not as interested in working for the sake of working," said Rice. "Andrew wants to be in the center of the musical-theater world all the time." Since the breakup, Rice has had a modest London hit with his Plantagenet saga Blondel and a major triumph in Chess, a cynical look at a championship chess match between a Soviet and an American that boasts a brilliant score by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, two members of the rock group ABBA. It is scheduled for a Broadway opening in April...
...Academy in London, without mixed feelings of delight, surfeit and loss. The first, obviously, because this is the first show to trace so large a part of England's cultural inheritance. It starts in 1216 with the enthronement of Henry III and ends with the death of the last Plantagenet, Richard II, in 1399, a span of nearly 200 years that brought Gothic art to England from France...
...show. Its catalog lists 748 items, ranging from a corroded metal pen to a whole stained-glass lancet window from Canterbury Cathedral. It covers manuscripts, paintings, maps, jewelry, seals, coins, heraldry, enamelwork, ceramics, armor, textiles, architecture and a great deal more besides. It traces the patronage of five Plantagenet kings and has a lot to say about how works of art were commissioned by the nobility and the great merchants, executed by their makers and read by the audience. It wanders off into didactic byways and outlines, among other things, the changing reactions to Gothic art and the problem...
...drapery so refined in their carving, and yet so plain and direct that they bear comparison with the sculpture made for the west door of Notre Dame a century before -- one sees the immensity of the loss. One can also sense the sheer range of feeling accessible to Plantagenet sculptors, from the grotesque and grimacing faces on corbels (meant more as effigies of "types" of men than as specific portraits, however sharp and humorous their realism) to the forbiddingly hieratic tomb effigies of dead lords like Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, lying cross-legged and pointy-toed as though about...
...Holy Year of Redemption, which extends through next Easter, and Martin Luther's 500th birth day. Lufthansa and several travel agents and religious organizations have planned a series of tours tracing Luther's life. One of the most recondite cultural vacations available is a 27-day Plantagenet tour of medieval England and France, a $3,945 trip arranged and led by Peter Gravgaard, a Danish citizen who has taught literature in the U.S. and Europe...