Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peter Pan (1904) amounted to such a calumny on fairies. Barrie wrote, "Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead." He thus upended the truth (people need fairies) and propagated a late Victorian myth (fairies need people) that must have grounded Puck and Ariel. The rest of the century was no kinder. Thanks to Peter Pan's continuing popularity and Disneyfication, Tinker Bell & Co. were ultimately reduced to trademarks or synonyms for homosexuals. The supernatural was obviously not long for this world. Until...
...efficient system that gave the South considerable economic growth and a high standard of living for all Southerners, both black and white. While admitting the immorality of slavery, Fogel and Engerman found that blacks in the South, propelled by self-interest and the work ethic, outfitted with a Victorian code of middle-class behavior learned from their masters, did remarkably well under the "peculiar institution...
...lines of The Belle of Amherst, Julie Harris' recent critically acclaimed adaptation of Emily Dickinson's poems. In a one woman show, Margaret Wolfit, a British actress, conjures up the characters in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, focusing on the intelligent woman's predicament in Victorian society. Performances are tonight, Friday and Saturday at 8 pm on the Loeb Mainstage. Tickets...
...years then instead of idling away his time with wishful thinking, he sits down and writes a play. Softly Speaking, to be performed at Kirkland House March 3-5 with music by Gerald Moshell is the product of Tom Fuller's law firm summer. It's about a Victorian gentleman thief who goes to a country house to steal jewels and runs off with the daughter of the aristocrat who owns the estate instead. Although Softly Speaking stands apart as one of the few originals in a season of adaptations, at least in name, Fuller's play has a decidedly...
...love sick maidens, and happy endings could only have sprung from the brows of the illustrious two. Yet Patience, like any true G & S, is a satire and in this operetta what is being so obviously but fondly mocked is the aesthetes who so carefully buttoned their sleeves in Victorian England. Banthorne, the hero, is a parody of Oscar Wilde or Swinburne; Patience is the name of the simple village milkmaid he adores...