Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friends lie awake praying they won't get Quadded, I can sleep in an old wooden Victorian home only a ten minute walk from the Yard...
...complements the characters without obscuring them. Nicole Gertrud Peskin's set design is an effective, not-too-ambitious late Victorian concoction of opulent brocade upholstery, polished parquet and lace curtains...
...disguise that her artistic aspiration is to write popular fiction as opposed to great literature. She calims to have been inspired to write by a third cousin, Elizabeth Goudge, who wrote fiction with titles such as Towers in the Mist and Green Dolphin Lane which were widely read in Victorian England...
...plot explores how the sins of the fathers are transplanted to sons and how past events recycle. Although the art that one generation deems revolutionary may seem banal to the next, the liberal themes of Ghosts shock modern audiences like liberal themes in the Victorian era shocked audiences then...
...Sundry Victorian furnishings fill the small stage, but director Polly Hogan exploits it by having the actors traverse across and around it. During a scene when Manders remarks about the resemblance between father and son, he, Oswald, and a portrait of Mr. Alving fall into line to highlight that Oswald has inherited the countenance of his sire. Contrarily, his mother had hoped that her son would inherit nothing from a father who led a dissolute life...