"Karol: A Man Who Became Pope Karol: A Man Who Became Pope (, ) is a 2005 TV miniseries written and directed by Giacomo Battiato, and created as a Polish-Italian-French-German and Canadian joint cooperation project. ""Karol"" is a biography of Karol Wojtyła, later known as Pope John Paul II, beginning in 1939 when Karol was only 19 years old and ending at the Papal conclave, October 1978 that made him Pope. The TV miniseries was supposed to première at the very beginning of April 2005 in the Vatican, but it was delayed due to the Pope's death. It was broadcast"
"The Jeweler's Shop The Jeweler's Shop (subtitled A Meditation on the Sacrament of Matrimony, Passing on Occasion into a Drama) () is a three-act play, written in 1960 by Karol Wojtyla (later Pope John Paul II), that looks at three couples as their lives become intertwined and mingled with one another. The play looks at humanity's ideas and expectations of romantic love and marriage. It is a truthful and animated look at the way people are when in love and their motivations for entering into couplehood. Andrew and Teresa are a young couple that have been friends for many years."
"The Pope and the Witch The Pope and the Witch (Italian title: ""Il Papa e la strega"") is a satirical play by Dario Fo, first performed in 1989. It depicts the Pope as a paranoid, drug-addled idiot and the Vatican as corrupt. Fo, an Italian actor-playwright awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, is known for aiming his sarcasm and slapstick comedy at authority, and in ""The Pope and the Witch"" he takes dead aim at the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church. At the outset, the nameless pope, with 100,000 orphans waiting in St. Peter's Square and the"
"After that success, Pope wrote some works that were more philosophical and more political and therefore more controversial, such as the ""Essay on Criticism"" and ""Essay on Man,"" as well as a failed play. As a result, a decade after the gentle, laughing satire of ""The Rape of the Lock,"" Pope wrote his masterpiece of invective and specific opproprium in ""The Dunciad."" Pope had translated Homer and produced an errant edition of William Shakespeare, and the 1727 ""Dunciad"" was an updating and redirection of John Dryden's poison-pen battle of ""MacFlecknoe."" The story is that of the goddess Dulness choosing a"
"Pope also appeared as Tony Angelino, the singing Dustman in the ""Only Fools and Horses"" episode Stage Fright, in 1991. Pope has regularly featured in the radio series ""Old Harry's Game"" (1995–2009). Pope performs regularly as a singer with the Thame Chamber Choir. He toured the UK as a member of the cast of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Series Live! show for which he is also musical director. Pope portrayed several minor parts in the original radio series, as well as the more recent adaptations of the later novels. Pope co-wrote with Richard Curtis the Hee Bee"
"Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, including ""Essay on Criticism"", ""The Rape of the Lock"" and ""The Dunciad"", and for his translation of Homer. He is the second-most frequently quoted writer in ""The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations"" after Shakespeare. Alexander Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior (1646–1717), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith (née Turner) (1643–1733), who were both Catholics. Edith's sister Christiana was the wife of the famous miniature painter Samuel Cooper. Pope's"
"pope were created cardinals ""in pectore"". In each case, publication followed closely upon their appointment. They were: In ""The Shoes of the Fisherman"" (1963) by Morris West a Ukrainian, Kiril Pavlovich Lakota, arrives in Rome and is revealed as to have been appointed a cardinal ""in pectore"" by the previous pope. In ""Vatican: A novel"" (1986) by Malachi Martin, a pope on his deathbed reveals that he had named the central character, Richard Lansing, a cardinal ""in pectore"". In ""The Secret Cardinal"" (2007) by Tom Grace, the pope enlists a cardinal's godson, former Navy Seal Nolan Kilkenny, to rescue a"
"""The Dunciad"", where he deplores Johnson was therefore lumped in with his much more political theatrical manager, Cibber, and the overtly political accountant, John Ozell. In comparison with those two individuals, Johnson was an innocent. Johnson's next play was much later, ""Medea"" in 1730, and his last was ""Caelia, or, The Perjur'd Lover"", which was a tragedy that failed so badly that it was withdrawn early. In the preface to ""Medea"", Johnson replied to Pope, admitting that Pope was a better poet but complaining of the pettiness shown by Pope's treatment of those who offended him. It is possible that"
"consequence of his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith, he left his living, and was master of St Albans School from 1623–25. His first play, ""Love Tricks,"" seems to have been written while he was teaching at St Albans. He removed in 1625 to London, where he lived in Gray's Inn, and for eighteen years from that time he was a prolific writer for the stage, producing more than thirty regular plays, tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies, and showing no sign of exhaustion when a stop was put to his occupation by the Puritan edict of 1642. Most of his plays"
"is possible, and she eventually accepts the marriage proposal from the first couple's son. La bottega dell'orefice La bottega dell'orefice is a 1988 Italian-Austrian-Canadian-German drama film based on ""The Jeweler's Shop"", a play written by Karol Józef Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) and scripted by Jeff Andrus, starring Burt Lancaster and Olivia Hussey, directed by Michael Anderson. In this romantic story The Jeweler (Burt Lancaster) sells wedding rings to a young couple and teaches them some precious truths about the meaning of love and marriage. The jeweller also helps another couple to fight for their troubled marriage, rebuilding their relationship."
"lent depth to his poetry. For example, Maynard Mack, the great Pope scholar of the mid- to late twentieth century, argued that Pope's moral vision demanded as much respect as his technical excellence. In the years 1953–1967 the definitive Twickenham edition of Pope's poems was published in ten volumes, including an index volume. Alexander Pope Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, including ""Essay on Criticism"", ""The Rape of the Lock"" and ""The Dunciad"", and for his translation of Homer. He is the second-most frequently"
"His satirical ""Mac Flecknoe"" was written in response to a rivalry with Thomas Shadwell and eventually inspired Alexander Pope to write his satirical ""The Rape of the Lock"". Other satirical works by Pope include the ""Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot"". Alexander Pope (b. May 21, 1688) was a satirist known for his Horatian satirist style and translation of the ""Iliad"". Famous throughout and after the long 18th century, Pope died in 1744. Pope, in his ""The Rape of the Lock"", is delicately chiding society in a sly but polished voice by holding up a mirror to the follies and vanities of"
"work); and (with William Hatchett) """" (1743) (translation of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's novel). Haywood is notable as a transgressive, outspoken writer of amatory fiction, plays, romance and novels. Paula R. Backscheider claims that ""Haywood's place in literary history is equally remarkable and as neglected, misunderstood, and misrepresented as her oeuvre"" (xiii intro drama). For quite some time Eliza Haywood was most frequently noted for her appearance in Alexander Pope's ""The Dunciad"" rather than for her own literary merits. Even though Alexander Pope made her a centerpoint in the heroic games of ""The Dunciad"" in Book II—she is, in Pope's"
"as a writer. Originally, he studied law in his hometown of Budapest and then in Geneva. He eventually left this track to return to his love of journalism. When he was eighteen, he began writing for a Budapest newspaper. His most famous works, both plays and novels, are his earliest works. One of his most successful plays was ""Liliom"" in 1909. In 1945, this play would become the well known Oscar and Hammerstein musical, ""Carousel"". Other famous plays include ""The Devil"" in 1907, ""The Guardsman"" written in 1910 and then translated in 1924, ""The Wolf"" in 1913, and ""The Swan"""
"though Theobald's work is invaluable, Pope succeeded in so utterly obliterating the character of the man that he is known by those who do not work with Shakespeare only as a dunce, as a dusty, pedantic, and dull witted scribe. In this, ""The Dunciad"" affected Theobald's reputation for posterity much as Dryden's ""Mac Flecknoe"" affected Thomas Shadwell's. In 1727, Theobald produced a play ""Double Falshood; or The Distrest Lovers"", which he claimed to have based on a lost play by Shakespeare. Pope attacked it as a fraud, but admitted in private that he believed Theobald to have worked from, at"
"about staging a play. It is possible that Pope's ""Dunciad Variorum"", published on 13 March 1729, influenced the themes of the play and the plot of the puppet show. The Court of Nonsense in the puppet show are related to the Court of Dulness in ""The Dunciad"" and the Court of Nonsense in John Dryden's ""Mac Flecknoe"". The Scriblerus Club style of humour as a whole influences ""The Author's Farce"", and it is possible that Fielding borrowed from Gay's ""Three Hours after Marriage"" (1717) and ""The Beggar's Opera"" (1728). In turn, Fielding's play influenced later Scriblerus Club works, especially Pope's"
"of what the ideal should be. Pope's friend John Gay also adapted the pastoral. Gay, working at Pope's suggestion, wrote a parody of the updated pastoral in ""The Shepherd's Week."" He also imitated the Satires of Juvenal with his ""Trivia"". In 1728, his ""The Beggar's Opera"" was an enormous success, running for an unheard-of eighty performances. All of these works have in common a gesture of compassion. In ""Trivia,"" Gay writes as if commiserating with those who live in London and are menaced by falling masonry and bedpan slops, and ""The Shepherd's Week"" features great detail of the follies of"
"The Rape of the Lock The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's ""Miscellaneous Poems and Translations"" (May 1712) in two cantos (334 lines); a revised edition ""Written by Mr. Pope"" followed in March 1714 as a five-canto version (794 lines) accompanied by six engravings. Pope boasted that this sold more than three thousand copies in its first four days. The final form of the poem appeared in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good"
"of Pembroke. The 1607 quarto is the sole edition of the play prior to the 20th century. The play opens with a dumbshow prologue that shows Roderigo making a deal with the devil to become Pope Alexander VI. Lodowick convinces Charles of France to go to war against Italy on religious grounds. Two gentlemen lambast the pope’s corruption. Gismond and Barbarossa intercept some slander against the pope and Gismond and are upset, promising to find and punish the writer. The Pope soliloquizes about how he made this deal with the devil for the betterment of his sons, Candy and Caesar."
"The Deputy The Deputy, a Christian tragedy (German: ""Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel""), also published in English as The Representative , is a controversial 1963 play by Rolf Hochhuth which portrayed Pope Pius XII as having failed to take action or speak out against the Holocaust. It has been translated into more than twenty languages. The play's implicit censure of a venerable if controversial pope has led to numerous counterattacks, of which one of the latest is the 2007 allegation that Hochhuth was the dupe of a KGB disinformation campaign. The ""Encyclopædia Britannica"" assesses the play as ""a drama that"
"""Plotwell"" was modelled on Cibber. Notwithstanding, Cibber put the play on at Drury Lane with himself playing the part of Plotwell, but the play was not well received. During the staging of a different play, Cibber introduced jokes at the expense of ""Three Hours After Marriage"", while Pope was in the audience. Pope was infuriated, as was Gay who got into a physical fight with Cibber on a subsequent visit to the theatre. Pope published a pamphlet satirising Cibber, and continued his literary assault for the next 25 years. In the first version of his landmark literary satire ""Dunciad"" (1728),"
"exchanges between Pope Adrian VI and a rival pope. Another important version of the incredible legend is the play ""Faust,"" written by the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The first part, which is the one more closely connected to the earlier legend, was published in 1808, the second posthumously in 1832. Goethe's ""Faust"" complicates the simple Christian moral of the original legend. A hybrid between a play and an extended poem, Goethe's two-part ""closet drama"" is epic in scope. It gathers together references from Christian, medieval, Roman, eastern, and Hellenic poetry, philosophy, and literature. The composition and refinement of"
"Hey! Luciani: The Life and Codex of John Paul I Hey! Luciani: The Life and Codex of John Paul I is a play written by Mark E. Smith, best known as the lead singer of the band the Fall. Described by its author as ""a cross between Shakespeare and ""The Prisoner"""", the play centres on the mysterious death of Pope John Paul I – born Albino Luciani – in 1978. The script for the play was supposedly written by Smith on beer mats and delivered to the play's director in a shoe box. Starring Smith and the performance artist Leigh"
"Alexander Pope (actor) Alexander Pope (176322 March 1835) was an Irish actor and painter. He was born in Cork, Ireland. He was educated to follow his father's profession of miniature painting. He continued to paint miniatures and exhibit them at the Royal Academy as late as 1821; but at an early date he took the stage, first appearing in London as Oroonoko in 1785 at Covent Garden. He remained at this theatre almost continuously for nearly twenty years, then at the Haymarket until his retirement, playing leading parts, chiefly tragic. He was well known as Othello and Henry VIII. He"
"""Zlata čeveljčka"" (Little Golden Shoes). One of his most important plays is ""Krst pri Savici"" (adaptation of Prešeren's epic-lyric poem ""The Baptism on the Savica""), a paraphrase of France Prešeren's major work with the same title, in which he used the setting of the Christianisation of the predecessors of the Slovenes in the 8th century to deliver a clear yet subtle metaphor of the political conditions in Slovenia after the Second World War. He employed the same scheme in his most important poetic play, ""Antigona"" (Antigone), written in 1961. The play is conceived as a remake of Sophocles' famous play,"
"on Female Modesty"". Jacob subsequently criticized that play for ""obscenity and false Pretence"". Jacob had admired Pope, had been on good terms with him, and had submitted the biographical entry of Pope (in the ""Poetical Register"") to Pope himself for correction, and Jacob was surprised when Pope attacked him for Jacob's criticism of ""Three Hours After Marriage"". Jacob perhaps did not know that ""Three Hours After Marriage"" had been co-authored by Pope. In ""The Dunciad"" of 1728, Pope pounced: Jacob, the scourge of grammar, mark with awe, Nor less revere the blunderbuss of law. Pope explained Jacob's offense as follows:"
"the inspiration for Pope's breakout game, ""Papers, Please"", released first in 2013. ""Papers, Please"" was critically praised, winning several awards including several Game Developers Choice and Independent Games Festival awards, as well as a British Academy (BAFTA) Games Award for Best Simulation Game. For Pope and his wife, ""Papers, Please"" was financially successful; the game had sold about 1.8 million copies by August 2016, and through 2018, still sold enough that Pope was not worried about his financial security as he was developing his next game, ""Return of the Obra Dinn"". Pope is currently living with Keiko near Tokyo, Japan."
"produced John Gay's ""Beggar's Opera."" The play ran so successfully, with 62 performances, that it was famously said the play ""made Gay rich and Rich gay."" John Gay was a long-time friend of Pope's and a frequent collaborator of his. Rich's success with ""Beggar's Opera"" allowed him to open his own theatre, and in December 1732 he opened the Theatre Royal Covent Garden. This was the first of three theatres on the site, now known as the Royal Opera House. Rich commissioned some of the great landscape artists of his day to paint the scenery for Covent Garden, including George"
"written by Pope in his own voice, entitled ""Hyper-Critics of Ricardus Aristarchus."" The most obvious change from the three book to the four book ""Dunciad"" was the change of hero from Lewis Theobald to Colley Cibber. Pope's choice of new 'hero' for the revised Dunciad, Colley Cibber, the pioneer of sentimental drama and celebrated comic actor, was the outcome of a long public squabble that originated in 1717, when Cibber introduced jokes onstage at the expense of a poorly received farce, Three Hours After Marriage, written by Pope with John Arbuthnot and John Gay. Pope was in the audience and"
"The first mention of Theobald in Pope's writings is the 1727, ""Peri Bathos,"" in ""Miscellanies, The Last Volume"" (which was the third volume), but Pope's attack there shows that Theobald was already a figure of fun. Regardless of the quarrels, though, Theobald was, in a sense, the nearly perfect King of Dunces. ""The Dunciad's"" action concerns the gradual sublimation of all arts and letters into Dulness by the action of hireling authors. Theobald, as a man who had attempted the stage and failed, plagiarised a play, attempted translation and failed to such a degree that John Dennis referred to him"
"was an accomplished man of letters who wrote poetry, dramas and libretti, as well as what may be the first comic opera, namely his 1637 libretto ""Chi soffre, speri"". He was also a patron of Nicolas Poussin, commissioning ""A Dance to the Music of Time"" from him and dictating its iconography. Pope Alexander VII appointed him to the cardinalate in 1657 as the Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto Vecchio and was also appointed as the Cardinal Secretary of State in 1655 which he held until 1667. Pope Alexander VII died in 1667 and a conclave to choose his successor was called."
"the Pope. Leblanc would often walk around in the garb of an abbess; he would wear roller skates as he moved about the house. During this time, he wrote his essay ""The Intelligence of Flowers"" (1906), in which he expressed sympathy with socialist ideas. He donated money to many workers' unions and socialist groups. At this time he conceived his greatest contemporary success: the fairy play ""The Blue Bird"" (1908, but largely written in 1906). After the writing ""The Intelligence of Flowers"", he suffered from a period of depression and writer's block. Although he recovered from this after a year"
"Poppea"" (""The Coronation of Poppea""), performed shortly before the composer's death in 1643. Giacomo Badoaro (1602–1654) was a prolific poet in the Venetian dialect who was a member of the Accademia degli Incogniti, a group of free-thinking intellectuals interested in promoting musical theatre in Venice—Badoaro himself held a financial interest in the Teatro Novissimo. ""Il ritorno"" was his first libretto; he would later, in 1644, write another Ulysses-based libretto for Francesco Sacrati. The text of ""Il ritorno"", originally written in five acts but later reorganised as three, is a generally faithful adaptation of Homer's ""Odyssey"", Books 13–23, with some characterisations"