Word: villainizing
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Morphia. Lowell Sherman, master-villain, appears at special matinees in Morphia, Viennese play, in which dope plays a prominent and timely part...
...York is identified as a place full of " women, death and garbage." Yale University is grotesquely libelled in the person of a majestic creature (the villain) who catalogues his excellences at the slightest provocation. His scenes with Roger are among the play's major absurdities...
...most striking characteristic of 'Othello' is its structure. Whereas in most tragedies, the hero maintains control until the turning point in the play is reached, here we have the villain in command until the climax. It is proportionately hard to understand". Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 emphasized this point in the second lecture of his series on the "Five tragedies of Shakspere" last night in Sanders Theatre...
...drama, as played by Mr. Hampden, is a good old comedy of plot and action, with characterization, minimized. Sir Giles Overreach is a stage villain without redeeming features, while his daughter (strange heredity!) is the sum of all charms. There is the attractive young lover, the afflicted hero, the fawning toad, and a host of stock comic characters brightly differentiated. When--one reads these Elizabethan comedies, one is puzzled sometimes to follow the twisted threads of plot and counterplot; but on the stage it all unfolds compactly and without confusion. The trick of deception, dramatic irony, we call...
...first chapter; "B" is the extraordinarily beautiful girl, somehow related to "A", upon whom suspicion is cast by the local police; while "C" is the famous detective who solves the various "mysterious", or "sinister", forces--"Z to the nth power"--which surround the murder and emanate from "X", the villain or unknown quantity. The formula is then derived by cancelling "A" with "Z to the nth power", subtracting "X", squaring "B" and adding "C", with as many other factors as the ingenuity of the author can devise...