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...covers the theatrical writings of Shakespeare and scenes of conjuring, exorcism and magic. Texts range from "The Witch of Edmonton" and "Twelfth Night" to "Macbeth" and "The Tempest...
...14th century Chaucer, via the Wife of Bath, was already pointing out that the elf queen and her company had retreated from human contact "manye hundred yeres ago," but their popular life continued to be irrepressible. Shakespeare is full of them--A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest. They pullulate as sylphs in Pope's Rape of the Lock; they appear in the verses of Drayton, Herrick, Milton, Spenser, Coleridge, Shelley and Blake. Indeed, whenever national origins were celebrated under the aegis of the Romantic movement, with its passion for the primitive and antiquarian, there the fairies (a.k.a. trolls, elves...
...storms, real and metaphysical, buffeted the South, brewed turmoil in Moscow and depressed world financial markets, the clouds of another tempest hung about the borrowed clapboard cottage, where President Clinton and his family were winding up their decidedly unrelaxing vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. The official word from the White House was that a "healing process" was under way. And indeed, the President was doing his best to make amends, not only with the woman who is making good on her promise to stick with him for better or worse, but also with the political party that has always...
...soon as authorities evacuate a storm-threatened town, reporters arrive to demonstrate exactly why the town was evacuated. Bonnie showed that while some embrace the tempest, others avoid it in expensive raingear. Continuing our highly praised, service-oriented journalism, we critique the performances...
...With this show in particular I think it's perfect for this space, because [The Tempest] is supposed to be a huge spectacle and a pageant," Lowenhaupt says. "It's wonderful to do it during Arts First weekend because people are walking through the Yard expecting to see the arts...