Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Swan song" ¶ 5
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Shakespeare's and Merchant
The weeping philosopher makes an appearance in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
The story of Barlaam and Josaphat was popular in the Middle Ages, appearing in such works as the Golden Legend, and a scene there involving three caskets eventually appeared, via Caxton's English translation of a Latin version, in Shakespeare's " Merchant of Venice ".
Mitchell played the male characters: Nick Bottom in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Launcelot Gobbo in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, among others.
Oxfordian William Farina refers to Shakespeare's apparent knowledge of the Jewish ghetto, Venetian architecture and laws in the plot of The Merchant of Venice, especially the city's " notorious Alien Statute ".
The second part ( concerning the caskets, known to English speakers from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice ) originates from about 800 AD from Joannes Damascensus's account of Barlaam and Josaphat and was written in Greek.
William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, probably written in the late 16th century, features Shylock, a Venetian Jew and his family.
* William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is first performed and his play The Merchant of Venice is published.
* Belmont ( Merchant of Venice ), a fictional Italian town in Shakespeare's play
He cited to this effect William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice published in 1600 ( Act IV, sc.
Some of their works featured Moorish characters, such as Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and Othello, which featured a Moorish Othello as its title character.
In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Portia disguises herself as Balthazar in Act IV, scene i.
She adopted the name Portia de Rossi at the age of 15, stating in 2005 that she had intended to reinvent herself, using the given name of Portia, a character from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and an Italian last name.
Together with Rudolph Schildkraut he performed in Reinhardt's staging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, now emphasizing his melodious speech, which despite first damning reviews finally made him a star.
* Shakespeare's Comedy of The Merchant of Venice, Leach, Shewell & Sanborn ( Boston, MA ), 1894.
" Fagerbakke has received critical acclaim as a thespian by the Screen Actors Guild and Juilliard School of Performing Arts for his roles as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and Torvald in Ibsen's A Doll's House.
She played all the principal women's roles of the time, notably Shakespeare's Portia ( Merchant of Venice ) and Beatrice ( Much Ado about Nothing ), and Lady Teazle in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal.
After the show closed, portions of the work were re-used in productions of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Otway's Venice Preserved.
David Carradine said, " My dad told me that he saw a production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice when he was eleven years old and decided right then what he wanted to do with his life ".
His appearance as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1741, mesmerized London audiences.
* Porcia is also briefly mentioned in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in regards to the character of her namesake, Portia:
Wesker's play The Merchant ( a play which he also called " Shylock ") tells the plot of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice from Shylock's point of view.
Some of their works featured Moorish characters, such as Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and Othello, which featured a Moorish Othello as its title character.

Shakespeare's and Venice
Almost half of Shakespeare's plays are set in Italy, many of them containing details of Italian laws, customs, and culture which Oxfordians believe could only have been obtained by personal experiences in Italy, and especially in Venice.
Opening a new theatre in Parma, his Zaira ( 1829 ) was a failure at the Teatro Ducale, but Venice welcomed I Capuleti e i Montecchi, which was based on the same Italian source as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Having found success with Richard III, Garrick moved onto a number of other roles including Tate's adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear and Pierre in Otway's Venice Preserv'd as well as comic roles such as Bayes in Buckingham's The Rehearsal ; a total of 18 roles in all in just the first six months of his acting career.

Shakespeare's and Portia
He is, therefore, quite as grateful as Antonio when Portia, as in Shakespeare's play, shows the legal way out.
The Quality of Mercy is a phrase taken from a speech by Portia in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.
The moon is named after Portia, the heroine of William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.
He is, therefore, quite as grateful as Antonio when Portia, as in Shakespeare's play, shows the legal way out.
The two women have collaborated on plays including Electra ( RSC ); The Good Person of Sezuan ( 1989, National Theatre ); Hedda Gabler ( 1991, The Abbey Theatre and BBC2 ); the controversial Richard II, with Shaw in the title role, also at the National Theatre ( 1995 ) and televised by BBC2 ; Footfalls, whose radical staging so enraged the Beckett estate that the production was pulled during its run ; The PowerBook, at the National Theatre, a dramatisation of Jeanette Winterson's novel ; Medea ( 2000 – 2001, Queen's Theatre and Broadway ); and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, in which Shaw played the small part of Portia.
* Portia ( Merchant of Venice ), a character in William Shakespeare's play Merchant of Venice
* Portia Catonis, the wife of Roman senator Marcus Junius Brutus and a character in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar
MacLean's wife called the school Portia Law School after the heroine of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
The phrase taken from a speech by Portia in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.
She playing in the RSC production of Dickens ' Great Expectations in Stratford, and starring as Portia in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum in Edinburgh.
One was as Portia in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ( play ), the other in a Beethoven piano quartet!

Shakespeare's and exclaims
In Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Benedick spots the sharp-tongued Beatrice approaching and exclaims to the Prince, Don Pedro, that he would do an assortment of arduous tasks for him " rather than hold three words conference with this harpy!
In Act 4. 12 of Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, Mark Antony is in a rage after losing the Battle of Actium and exclaims, " The shirt of Nessus is upon me.

Shakespeare's and Let
Critchley's recent contributions to the The Stone include Let Be: An Answer to Hamlet ’ s Question, a collaboration with Jamieson Webster that traces the logic of action in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Euro Blind, a discussion of Sophocles and the so-called “ tragedy " of the European debt crisis.

Shakespeare's and music
Using a wide stage resourcefully he mingled music and dance with Shakespeare's words in a spirited mixture.
His graduation piece, completed in 1861, was a suite of incidental music to Shakespeare's The Tempest.
The Indian Queen followed in 1695, in which year he also wrote songs for Dryden and Davenant's version of Shakespeare's The Tempest ( recently, this has been disputed by music scholars < ref >
Owain is perhaps best remembered outside Wales as the mysterious Welshman of ' Owen Glendower ' in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 who claims to be able to " call spirits from the vasty deep ," and proves later on that he can, at least, summon unearthly music.
His graduation piece was a suite of incidental music to Shakespeare's The Tempest.
His graduation piece, completed in 1861, was a set of incidental music to Shakespeare's The Tempest.
" had composed a brilliant new score ( his most subtle yet ) to a scintillating libretto .... Iolanthe is the work in which Sullivan's operetta style takes a definite step forward, and metamorphosis of musical themes is its characteristic new feature .... By recurrence and metamorphosis of themes Sullivan made the score more fluid ...." Much of Sullivan's " fairy " music pays deliberate homage to the incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
However, Ernest Chausson preceded Tchaikovsky by employing the celesta in December 1888 in his incidental music, written for a small orchestra, for La tempête ( a French translation by Maurice Bouchor of Shakespeare's The Tempest ).
For this comic parody of Italian opera, he wrote the music, adapting the words from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and sang the role of Pyramus.
In Hamburg, the group performed and wrote the music for an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, which was eventually released in 1989 as Macbeth.
Another operatic version came in 1828, when Frederic Reynolds adapted Garrick's Catherine and Petruchio, adding an overture by Rossini and songs from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets set to music by tenor John Braham and T. Cooke.
They hold the UK's national collection of material about live performance in the UK since Shakespeare's day, covering drama, dance, musical theatre, circus, music hall, rock and pop, and other forms of live entertainment.
He works mainly in the music hall tradition, although, in the past, has occasionally appeared in drama, including as Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on stage in Liverpool in 1971 ; on television in the cameo role of ' The Tollmaster ' in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen ; and as Yorick ( in silent flashback ) in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1996.
The music in this episode was created by Anthony Rooley, who wrote new arrangements of works from Shakespeare's own time, such as John Dowland's piece ' Lachrimae '.
Eccles was very active as a composer for the theatre, and from the 1690s wrote a large amount of incidental music including music for William Congreve's Love for Love, John Dryden's The Spanish Friar and William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
He also wrote the masque Peleus and Thetis and songs for John Dryden's Secular Masque, incidental music for William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's Tale, and a quantity of chamber music including a set of twelve trio sonatas.
* The Tempest ( Sibelius ), Jean Sibelius's 1926 incidental music to Shakespeare's play
33 ; music for William Shakespeare's As You Like It
McKennitt is compared to Enya, but McKennitt's music is more grounded in traditional and classical invocations, using literary works as sources of lyrics and springboards for interpretation such as " The Lady of Shalott " by Lord Tennyson, " Prospero's Speech " ( the final soliloquy in William Shakespeare's The Tempest ), " Snow " by Archibald Lampman, " Dark Night of the Soul " by St. John of the Cross, Dante's Inferno, William Blake's " Lullaby ", Yeats ' " The Stolen Child ", " The English Ladye and the Knight " by Sir Walter Scott and " The Highwayman " by Alfred Noyes.
The production ran for twenty-nine performances, and included some of Shakespeare's sonnets set to music.
The music in this episode was created by Anthony Rooley, who wrote new arrangements of works from Shakespeare's own time, such as John Dowland's piece ' Lachrimae '.

0.542 seconds.