Which Shakespeare play features 'Feste', a jester?
"storytelling, and physical comedy. It has also been suggested they performed acrobatics and juggling. Henry VIII of England employed a jester named Will Sommers. During the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, William Shakespeare wrote his plays and performed with his theatre company the Lord Chamberlain's Men (later called the King's Men). Clowns and jesters were featured in Shakespeare's plays, and the company's expert on jesting was Robert Armin, author of the book ""Fooled upon Foole"". In Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"", Feste the jester is described as ""wise enough to play the fool"". King James VI of Scotland"
"The Jester's Supper (play) The Jester's Supper (Italian:La cena delle beffe) is a historical play by the Italian writer Sem Benelli, which was first staged in 1909. In 1919 the play was put on in New York City. It portrays a violent and cruel rivalry in the Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent. The play was the basis for an opera ""La cena delle beffe"" composed by Umberto Giordano with a libretto written by Benelli himself. It premiered at La Scala on 20 December 1924. In 1942 the play was adapted as a film, ""The Jester's Supper"", directed by Alessandro Blasetti"
"during the play, in answer to an inquiry by Orsino of who sang a song that he heard the previous evening. Curio responds ""Feste, the jester, my lord; a fool that the lady Olivia's father took much delight in. He is about the house"" (2.4). Throughout the rest of the play, he is addressed only as ""Fool,"" while in the stage directions he is mentioned as ""Clown."" Feste seems to leave Olivia's house and return at his pleasure rather too freely for a servant. (At the very least he is doing some free-lance entertaining over at the house of Duke"
"and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Osvaldo Valenti. It was made at Cinecittà in Rome. The film was a popular success. The Jester's Supper (play) The Jester's Supper (Italian:La cena delle beffe) is a historical play by the Italian writer Sem Benelli, which was first staged in 1909. In 1919 the play was put on in New York City. It portrays a violent and cruel rivalry in the Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent. The play was the basis for an opera ""La cena delle beffe"" composed by Umberto Giordano with a libretto written by Benelli himself. It premiered at La Scala"
"Festen (play) Festen is a British stage adaptation of the Danish film of the same name (""The Celebration"" being the film's release title in North America). The adaptation is by English playwright David Eldridge. It was first staged in 2004 by producer Marla Rubin at the Almeida Theatre in London, and has since been staged in many countries around the world. As in the original movie, ""Festen"" satirises the hypocrisy of a large and wealthy family by observing the events that unfold at the ancestral home during a reunion held to celebrate the oldest family member's 60th birthday. As the"
"certain goddesses such as Juno, Ceres, Iris, and sea nymphs are in one scene of the play. A record exists of a performance of ""The Tempest"" on 1 November 1611 by the King's Men before James I and the English royal court at Whitehall Palace on Hallowmas night. The play was one of the six Shakespearean plays (and eight others for a total of 14) acted at court during the winter of 1612–13 as part of the festivities surrounding the marriage of Princess Elizabeth with Frederick V, the Elector of the Palatinate of the Rhine. There is no further public"
"Jester A jester, court jester, or fool, was historically an entertainer during the medieval and Renaissance eras who was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain him and his guests. A jester was also an itinerant performer who entertained common folk at fairs and markets. Jesters are also modern-day entertainers who resemble their historical counterparts. Jesters in medieval times are often thought to have worn brightly coloured clothes and eccentric hats in a motley pattern and their modern counterparts usually mimic this costume. Jesters entertained with a wide variety of skills: principal among"
"to her after Mary's death in 1558. Jane Foole Jane Foole, also known as Jane The Foole, and Jane, The Queen's Fool (fl. 1543-1558), was an English court jester. She was the jester of queens Catherine Parr and Mary I, and possibly also of Anne Boleyn. She has been described as the only female court jester ever depicted. Today entertainers sometimes perform as ""Jane"" in Renaissance-themed entertainments such as Renaissance faires. Jane's full name, birth year, and background are unknown. ""Beden the Fool"" also appears in related notes of the time and it has been suggested that Beden was her"
"Alexander's Feast (Handel) Alexander's Feast (HWV 75) is an ode with music by George Frideric Handel set to a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton. Hamilton adapted his libretto from John Dryden's ode ""Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music"" (1697) which had been written to celebrate Saint Cecilia's Day. Jeremiah Clarke (whose score is now lost) set the original ode to music. Handel composed the music in January 1736, and the work received its premiere at the Covent Garden Theatre, London, on 19 February 1736. In its original form it contained three concertos: a concerto in B flat major in 3"
"Source: Recordings of ""La cena della beffe"" on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk La cena delle beffe La cena delle beffe (""The Jesters' Supper"") is an opera in four acts composed by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Sem Benelli adapted from his 1909 play of the same name. The opera premiered on 20 December 1924 at La Scala. Milan. The story, set in Florence at the time of Lorenzo de' Medici, recounts the rivalry between Giannetto Malespini and Neri Chiaramantesi for the affections of the beautiful Ginevra and Giannetto's thirst for revenge over a cruel joke played on him by Neri and"
"introduce groups of characters in longer narrative sequences. Jennings retained more of Shakespeare's poetry for the young lovers than any of his big-screen successors. Several scenes are interpolated, including three sequences featuring Friar John in Mantua. In contrast, the role of Friar Laurence (an important character in the play) is much reduced. A number of scenes are expanded as opportunities for visual spectacle, including the opening brawl (set against the backdrop of a religious procession), the wedding and Juliet's funeral. The party scene, choreographed by Agnes de Mille, includes Rosaline (an unseen character in Shakespeare's script) who rebuffs Romeo. The"
"La cena delle beffe La cena delle beffe (""The Jesters' Supper"") is an opera in four acts composed by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Sem Benelli adapted from his 1909 play of the same name. The opera premiered on 20 December 1924 at La Scala. Milan. The story, set in Florence at the time of Lorenzo de' Medici, recounts the rivalry between Giannetto Malespini and Neri Chiaramantesi for the affections of the beautiful Ginevra and Giannetto's thirst for revenge over a cruel joke played on him by Neri and his brother Gabriello. Giannetto's revenge ""joke"" ultimately leads Neri"
"""summer"" in the title has a double meaning: the play is introduced and presented by the figure of Will Summer, or Summers, the jester of King Henry VIII. Summers had an enduring reputation with the Elizabethan public; he would be brought back to the stage by Samuel Rowley in ""When You See Me You Know Me"" (printed 1605). The clown-figure of Summers provides a level of satire to the morality-play style allegory of the plot. In one view, Nashe produced his play by rewriting and expanding an earlier interlude by John Lyly that was performed in 1591. In the play,"
"Jane Foole Jane Foole, also known as Jane The Foole, and Jane, The Queen's Fool (fl. 1543-1558), was an English court jester. She was the jester of queens Catherine Parr and Mary I, and possibly also of Anne Boleyn. She has been described as the only female court jester ever depicted. Today entertainers sometimes perform as ""Jane"" in Renaissance-themed entertainments such as Renaissance faires. Jane's full name, birth year, and background are unknown. ""Beden the Fool"" also appears in related notes of the time and it has been suggested that Beden was her surname. Jane is believed to have had"
"Yorick Yorick is a character in William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". He is the dead court jester whose skull is exhumed by the First Gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1, of the play. The sight of Yorick's skull evokes a reminiscence by Prince Hamlet of the man, who apparently played a role during Hamlet’s upbringing: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I"
"three sequences featuring Friar John in Mantua. In contrast, the role of Friar Laurence (an important character in the play) is much reduced. A number of scenes are expanded as opportunities for visual spectacle, including the opening brawl (set against the backdrop of a religious procession), the wedding and Juliet's funeral. The party scene, choreographed by Agnes de Mille, includes Rosaline (an unseen character in Shakespeare's script) who rebuffs Romeo. The role of Peter is enlarged, and played by Andy Devine as a faint-hearted bully. He speaks lines which Shakespeare gave to other Capulet servants, making him the instigator of"
"Summer Shakespeare Festival The Summer Shakespeare Festival (Czech: ""Letní shakespearovské slavnosti"", Slovak: ""Letné shakespearovské slávnosti"") takes place in the courtyard of Burgrave Palace at Prague Castle. The festival was originally initiated by Václav Havel. The performances are also presented at Špilberk in Brno and at Bratislava Castle in Bratislava. The organizers closely cooperate with Martin Hilský, who translated most of the staged plays. So far, the most acclaimed was the performance of ""King Lear"" in 2002. In 2004, director Martin Huba was selected for an ambitious project, a performance of ""Romeo and Juliet"" such as that one evening Capulets would"
"festival hostess, Gertrude Butler Bowmer, died August 19, 1994. The remains of an old Chautauqua building in Ashland's Lithia Park gave Bowmer the idea of staging Shakespeare plays on an outdoor Elizabethan stage. In 1935 he persuaded the government of Ashland to revive the tradition of July 4th celebrations with an important addition: a Shakespearean Festival. The Works Progress Administration helped construct a makeshift Elizabethan stage on the Chautauqua site and Bowmer, college students, teachers, and Ashland citizens mounted two plays, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, for three performances. Bowmer directed and played the roles of Shylock and"
"A Feast in Time of Plague A Feast in Time of Plague () is an 1830 play by Aleksandr Pushkin. The plot concerns a banquet in which the central figure taunts death with a toast ""And so, O Plague, we hail thy reign!"". The story is based on Act 1 of John Wilson's play ""The City of Plague"". The play was published in 1830 as one of four ""Little Tragedies"" (Malenkie tragedii ) together with ""The Stone Guest"" (Kamenny gost ); ""Mozart and Salieri"" (Motsart i Salyeri ) and ""The Miserly Knight"" (Skupoy rytsar ). All four of these plays"
"The Jester's Supper (film) The Jester's Supper (Italian:La cena delle beffe) is a 1942 Italian historical film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Osvaldo Valenti and Clara Calamai. It was based on a play of the same title by Sem Benelli, which had later been turned into an opera by Umberto Giordano. Like the play, the film is set in the 15th century Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent and portrays a rivalry that leads to a series of increasingly violent jokes. It was shot at Cinecittà in Rome partly using sets which had been constructed for Blasetti's earlier"
"to be presented hidden in a giant pie from which he would leap out. Hudson fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War. A third jester associated with Charles I was called Muckle John. Scholar David Carlyon has cast doubt on the ""daring political jester"", calling historical tales ""apocryphal"", and concluding that ""popular culture embraces a sentimental image of the clown; writers reproduce that sentimentality in the jester, and academics in the Trickster"", but it ""falters as analysis"". Jesters could also give bad news to the King that no one else would dare deliver. In 1340, when the"
"were set as one act operas by Russian composers; Dargomyzhsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, and for the ""Feast"", Cesar Cui. A Feast in Time of Plague A Feast in Time of Plague () is an 1830 play by Aleksandr Pushkin. The plot concerns a banquet in which the central figure taunts death with a toast ""And so, O Plague, we hail thy reign!"". The story is based on Act 1 of John Wilson's play ""The City of Plague"". The play was published in 1830 as one of four ""Little Tragedies"" (Malenkie tragedii ) together with ""The Stone Guest"" (Kamenny gost ); ""Mozart"
"Philostrate Philostrate (; meaning ""lover of battle"") is a fictional character in a number of literary works, including William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1596). In that play, he is the Master of Revels at Theseus' court, meaning he is in charge of his lord's entertainments, making recommendations to Theseus, as well as altering the text of some of the plays performed in his court. Shakespeare may have used this character to poke fun at play censorship in London at the time. In early performances of the play, the actor who played this character probably also played the part of"
"John Olon and with music by Argento. In April 2015, Willing Suspension Productions, Boston University's Renaissance theater group, performed and filmed a freely viewable performance. The Shoemaker's Holiday The Shoemaker's Holiday or the Gentle Craft is an Elizabethan play written by Thomas Dekker. The play was first performed in 1599 by the Admiral's Men, and it falls into the subgenre of city comedy. The story features three subplots: an inter-class romance between a citizen of London and an aristocrat, the ascension of shoemaker Simon Eyre to Lord Mayor of London, and a romance between a gentleman and a shoemaker's wife,"
"may be that both plays devote a greater-than-usual proportion of their theatrical space and time to their special effects. Along with Fletcher's ""The Island Princess"", ""The Sea Voyage"" has attracted the attention of some late twentieth century critics and scholars as part of the literature of colonialism and anti-colonialism. The Sea Voyage The Sea Voyage is a late Jacobean comedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger. The play is notable for its imitation of Shakespeare's ""The Tempest."" ""The Sea Voyage"" was licensed for performance by the Master of the Revels on 22 June 1622. ""The Sea Voyage"" was acted"
"lesser extent, juggling and acrobatics. Shakespeare not only borrowed from this multi-talented jester tradition, but contributed significantly to its rethinking. Whereas the court jester often regaled his audience with various skills aimed to amuse, Shakespeare's fool, consistent with Shakespeare's revolutionary ideas about theater, became a complex character who could highlight more important issues. Like Shakespeare's other characters, the fool began to speak outside of the narrow confines of exemplary morality. Shakespeare's fools address themes of love, psychic turmoil, personal identity, and many other innumerable themes that arise in Shakespeare, and in modern theater. Shakespeare's earlier fools often seem to be"
"Shakespeare. Most of Shakespeare's romance plays appeared late in his life and include plays such as ""The Tempest"" and ""Cymbeline"". ""Comedy"", in its Elizabethan usage, had a very different meaning from modern comedy. A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare's other plays. Patterns in the comedies include movement to a ""green world"", both internal and external conflicts, and a tension between Apollonian and Dionysian values. Shakespeare's use of comedy and characters of comedic value was not limited to his"
"my head, that this post could be no other than that of the king’s chief Jester;—and that Hamlet’s Yorick, in our Shakespear, many of whose plays, you know, are founded upon authenticated facts,—was certainly the very man."" In a second example of the author's playfulness with names, Sterne and Eliza receive the pet names ‘Bramin’ and ‘Bramine’ throughout. Given the Brahmin Hindu priestly caste is renowned for austerity and wisdom, Sterne thereby draws attention to his real-life role as a priest. Simultaneously, Eliza's epithet Bramine highlights her connections with India. This playful religious name-calling serves to remind us that Sterne"
"King Heironymous. The play was revived again by the Fremont Civic Theatre, and by the Magnolia Arts Council in Arkansas and the Muskegon Civic Theatre in Michigan. The story is introduced by a jester – the worst jester ever: A fictional medieval kingdom is ruled by a cold-hearted queen and a gruff and imperious king (King Heironymous). They have arranged for their daughter – the most beautiful (and incredibly spoiled) princess to marry a handsome – but dumb as a bucket of rocks – prince on Christmas Day. The Jester has failed to make the king laugh - and the"
"The Shoemaker's Holiday The Shoemaker's Holiday or the Gentle Craft is an Elizabethan play written by Thomas Dekker. The play was first performed in 1599 by the Admiral's Men, and it falls into the subgenre of city comedy. The story features three subplots: an inter-class romance between a citizen of London and an aristocrat, the ascension of shoemaker Simon Eyre to Lord Mayor of London, and a romance between a gentleman and a shoemaker's wife, whose husband appears to have died in the wars with France. The play is a ""citizen"" drama, or a depiction of the life of members"
"Falstaff (Salieri) Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle (""Falstaff, or The Three Jokes"") is a ""dramma giocoso"" in two acts by Antonio Salieri, set to a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi after William Shakespeare's ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"". One of the earliest operatic versions of Shakespeare's play, Salieri's ""Falstaff"" is notable for a general compression and streamlining of the original plot, note the absence of the two young lovers, Fenton and Anne, and the addition of a scene in which Mistress Ford pretends to be German to charm Falstaff (actually two such scenes exist, one in a separate score by"
"Celebration (play) Celebration is a play by British playwright Harold Pinter. It was first presented as a double-bill, with Pinter's first play ""The Room"" on Thursday 16 March 2000 at the Almeida Theatre in London. The plot revolves around three couples dining in the most expensive restaurant in town (an allusion to The Ivy restaurant in London). At one table are sat two brothers, Lambert and Matt, and two sisters, Prue and Julie. Lambert and Julie are married, as are Matt and Prue. They are celebrating Lambert and Julie's wedding anniversary. Seated at another table are Russell and Suki, who"
"Carter's ""Wise Children"", ""To be or not to be"" is reworked as a song and dance routine, and Iris Murdoch's ""The Black Prince"" has Oedipal themes and murder intertwined with a love affair between a ""Hamlet""-obsessed writer, Bradley Pearson, and the daughter of his rival. In the late 20th century, David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest draws heavily from ""Hamlet"" and takes its title from the play's text; Wallace incorporates references to the gravedigger scene, the marriage of the main character's mother to his uncle, and the re-appearance of the main character's father as a ghost. There is the story"