"as a specific character. His shuffling feet, choice of themes, self-torturing reminiscence and intense reactions to much of what Words and Music produce/perform all seem to indicate that he is a decrepit version of Orsino with his famous opening line from Twelfth Night: ""If music be the food of love, play on,"" a hopeless romantic, in love with love, and the melancholy brought on by the mere thought of it. Croak could almost be the selfsame man, had he never moved from that spot for the rest of his life and now finds himself perhaps approaching the brink of death."
"a supporter of the Earl of Essex but he did not visit England until the English court for the Christmas revels in December 1600 where he was entertained by Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"" and the play opens with the character of Duke Orsino saying the famous line ""If music be the food of love, play on."" He died in Rome in 1615. Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano Virginio Orsini (September 1572 – 9 September 1615) was the second Duke of Bracciano, member of the Orsini family and knight of the order of the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Paolo"
"""If music be the food of love...""), identifying him as a force for vitality, noise and good cheer, as his name suggests. But it also raises the question of how far the audience is expected to sympathize with him. Is his criticism of his niece a justified statement of the old truism that ""life must go on"", or an insensitive blunder by a hungover old drunkard? At the beginning Sir Toby appears to be friends with another character, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a guest of Olivia, Sir Toby's niece. However as the play progresses, it transpires that Sir Toby is just"
"Olivia and immediately thinks up a fantasy, convincing himself any passion inside him is only for her. But when his page boy ""Cesario"" begins to work with him, he becomes fond of the boy, which is one reason to explain why he is easily able to switch his love from Olivia to Viola (Cesario) in the end. Orsino is in love with the idea of being in love and is depressed about this, so when he says ""if music be the food of Love play on"" he is trying to cure his depression, and Shakespeare uses a metaphor about feeding"
"opening (where the producers were sued over the show's content) saying, ""Jupiter will be in opposition to naughty Saturn, and the show opens the very day of the sun's eclipse. Terrible."" But there was no astrologically safe time in the near future. ""Hair"" makes many references to Shakespeare's plays, especially ""Romeo and Juliet"" and ""Hamlet"", and, at times, takes lyrical material directly from Shakespeare. For example, the lyrics to the song ""What a Piece of Work Is Man"" are from ""Hamlet"" (II: scene 2) and portions of ""Flesh Failures"" (""the rest is silence"") are from Hamlet's final lines. In ""Flesh"
"Love's Pilgrimage (play) Love's Pilgrimage is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. The play is unusual in their canon, in that its opening scene contains material from Ben Jonson's 1629 comedy ""The New Inn."" The common materials are ""Love's Pilgrimage,"" Act I, scene i, lines 25-63 and 330-411, and ""The New Inn,"" II,v,48-73 and III,i,57-93 and 130-68. Early researchers like F. G. Fleay and Robert Boyle thought that the Jonsonian material in ""Love's Pilgrimage"" was authorial — that Jonson was one of the creators of the play. Modern critics favor the view that"
"Love's Labour's Lost Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women for three years of study and fasting. Their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of France and her ladies makes them forsworn. In an untraditional ending for a comedy, the play closes with the death of the Princess's father, and all weddings are delayed for a year. The"
"no more than a wrestling match, and the action throughout is often interrupted by a song. At the end, Hymen himself arrives to bless the wedding festivities. William Shakespeare’s play ""As You Like It"" clearly falls into the Pastoral Romance genre; but Shakespeare does not merely use the genre, he develops it. Shakespeare also used the Pastoral genre in ""As You Like It"" to ‘cast a critical eye on social practices that produce injustice and unhappiness, and to make fun of anti-social, foolish and self-destructive behaviour’, most obviously through the theme of love, culminating in a rejection of the notion"
"has the largest cast of all Shakespeare's plays and is seen by many critics as the best of the ""Henry VI"" trilogy. ""Of the King's Party"" ""Of the Duke of York's Party"" ""The Petitions and the Combat"" ""The Conjuration"" ""The False Miracle"" ""Eleanor's Penance"" ""Murder of Gloucester"" ""Murder of Suffolk"" ""The Cade Rebellion"" ""Others"" The play begins with the marriage of King Henry VI of England to the young Margaret of Anjou. Margaret is the protégée and lover of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk, who aims to influence the king through her. The major obstacle to Suffolk"
"Shakespeare in Love (play) Shakespeare in Love is a play by Lee Hall adapted from the film of the same title. The play premiered at the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End on 22 July 2014. It was produced by Disney Theatrical Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions and directed by Declan Donnellan, with design by Nick Ormerod and music by Paddy Cunneen. The original cast included David Oakes appearing as Marlowe, Tom Bateman as Will, and Lucy Briggs-Owen as the heroine Viola De Lesseps. The production closed on 18th April 2015. The production played to sold out audiences during"
"challenges audience members to question their own moral judgment of social taboos. The play also features many language games and grammatical arguments in the middle of catastrophes and existential disputes between the characters. The name of the play refers to the song ""Who is Sylvia?"" from Shakespeare's play ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"". Proteus sings this song, hoping to woo Silvia. It is also referred to in ""Finding the Sun"" (1982), an earlier work of Albee. It is Martin's 50th birthday. In his suburban living room, he and his wife Stevie prepare to be interviewed on television by their friend"
"revived at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2006 and at the Royal and Derngate Theatres, Northampton in 2011. It was broadcast as a Radio drama on BBC Radio 4 the same year. It has become a staple of repertory theatre seasons since. In Praise of Love (play) In Praise of Love, originally entitled ""After Lydia"", is the first part of a 1973 double-bill play by the English playwright Terence Rattigan (the second half being ""Before Dawn"", a burlesque of the opera ""Tosca""). It was the penultimate play he wrote. The play's action was loosely inspired by the true-life relationship between"
"lays the ghosts to rest and all ends happily. Perchance to Dream (musical) Perchance to Dream is a musical romance with book, lyrics and music by Ivor Novello. It was the only musical for which Novello wrote lyrics. The title is a quotation from William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". The plot, like many of Novello's plots, is a romantic adventure tale, telling the parallel stories of the fates of several inhabitants of the same house through differing time periods. The stories interconnect and have unforeseen repercussions, one upon the other. It opened on the London stage at the Hippodrome Theatre on"
"musical ""The Game of Love"", based on the translation of the play by Tom Jones. The lyrics are written by Jones, and the music is by Jacques Offenbach, with musical arrangements and additional music by Nancy Ford. It was also adapted into the successful American musical, ""The Gay Life"", with songs by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz Anatol (play) Anatol is a play by Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, published in 1893. The introduction was written by ""Loris"", a pseudonym of the young Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who was a friend of Schnitzler. It is a seven-act play set in late 19th"
"Hamlet in William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", who tells Prince Hamlet that he needs to avenge his father's death. While King Hamlet is a driving force upon the plot of ""Hamlet"", however, Andrea's ""ghost and his theme, which was to be the core of the play, are superfluous; and, indeed, need never have been introduced"". Awake, Revenge, if love, as love hath had, Have yet the power or prevalence in hell! Hieronimo with Lorenzo is joined in the league And interprets our passage to revenge. Awake, Revenge, or we are woe-begone. (3.14.13-17) Andrea and the personified Revenge serve as the chorus of"
"Music in the plays of William Shakespeare Music in the plays of William Shakespeare includes both music incidental to the plot, as song and dance, and also additional supplied both by Shakespeare's own company and subsequent performers. This music is distinct from musical settings of Shakespeare's sonnets by later composers. The following are among the most notable examples of songs in Shakespeare's plays: Among the dances associated with Shakespeare's company is ""Kemp's Jig"" named after the actor Will Kemp. The generations after Shakespeare saw many composers create or arrange music for his plays. Among the most notable were Thomas Morley,"
"was first shown on More4 on Monday 26 February 2007. 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"
"Passion Play (play) Passion Play is a 1981 play by British playwright Peter Nichols dealing with adultery and betrayal, unusual in that the two leading characters are each portrayed by two actors for public speech and private thoughts. It was originally intended to open the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Barbican Theatre but was produced by them at the London's Aldwych Theatre in 1981. It was revived at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre in 1984 before transferring to Wyndham's Theatre, at the Donmar Warehouse in 2000 before transferring to the Comedy Theatre, and at the Duke of York's Theatre in 2013. It"
"Kean (musical) Kean is a musical with a book by Peter Stone and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest. Using material by Jean-Paul Sartre and Alexandre Dumas, père as its source, it centers on the adventures of Edmund Kean, considered the greatest Shakespearean actor of the early 19th century, focusing primarily mainly on his wild behavior offstage. Trouble ensues as Kean desperately tries to juggle the two women in his life - the Danish Ambassador's wife, Elena, and a young aspiring actress, Anna. After one preview, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jack Cole, opened on"
"Perchance to Dream (musical) Perchance to Dream is a musical romance with book, lyrics and music by Ivor Novello. It was the only musical for which Novello wrote lyrics. The title is a quotation from William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". The plot, like many of Novello's plots, is a romantic adventure tale, telling the parallel stories of the fates of several inhabitants of the same house through differing time periods. The stories interconnect and have unforeseen repercussions, one upon the other. It opened on the London stage at the Hippodrome Theatre on 21 April 1945. The show starred Novello as Sir"
"Jaques both elect to remain within the forest. University of Wisconsin professor Richard Knowles, the editor of the 1977 New Variorum edition of this play, in his article ""Myth and Type in As You Like It"", pointed out that the play contains mythological references in particular to Eden and to Hercules. ""As You Like It"" is known as a musical comedy because of the number of songs in the play. Indeed, there are more songs in it than in any other play of Shakespeare. These songs and music are incorporated in the action that takes place in the forest of"
"is our life? A game!"") a quote from Act 3 of the opera, became a proverb in Russian. ""What? Where? When?"", a trivia game and one of the most popular TV-shows in Russia and former Soviet countries, starts with a musical quotation from the opera, Herman singing the phrase ""Life is but a game."" The Queen of Spades (opera) The Queen of Spades, Op. 68 (, ""Pikovaya dama"", ) is an opera in 3 acts (7 scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story of the same name"
"Where Is Love? ""Where is Love?"" is a song from the Tony Award-winning British musical ""Oliver!"" and the 1968 film ""Oliver!"" based on the novel ""Oliver Twist"" by Charles Dickens. The musical was written by Lionel Bart and was first staged in London's West End in 1960. Oliver Twist, the leading character, sings the song after being thrown into the cellar of a funeral parlour for getting into a fight with Noah Claypole, another servant of the undertaker. Later in the show a reprise is sung by Mr Brownlow's housekeeper, Mrs Bedwin. In the 1968 Columbia Pictures musical film version"
"starring Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith. The music has become popular worldwide, and was performed in the film by violinist Joshua Bell with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. While Hess was House Composer for the Royal Shakespeare Company he contributed twenty scores for RSC productions, and highlights from his Shakespeare scores have been recorded and performed by the RPO in concert as ""The Food of Love"", hosted by Dame Judi Dench and Sir Patrick Stewart. His most recent RSC scores were for Christopher Luscombe's productions of ""Love's Labour's Lost"" and ""Love's Labour's Won"". Hess was awarded the New York"
"is based on the ""Seven Ages of Man"" element of the ""All the world's a stage"" speech and was premiered in April 2016. As You Like It As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. ""As You Like It"" follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually,"
"geographical details are irrelevant. The Arden edition of Shakespeare makes the suggestion that the name ""Arden"" comes from a combination of the classical region of Arcadia and the biblical garden of Eden, as there is a strong interplay of classical and Christian belief systems and philosophies within the play. Arden was also the maiden name of Shakespeare's mother and her family home is located within the Forest of Arden. Love is the central theme of ""As You Like It"", like other romantic comedies of Shakespeare. Following the tradition of a romantic comedy, ""As You Like It"" is a tale of"
"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 the opening brawl. The film includes two songs drawn from other plays by Shakespeare: ""Come Away Death"" from ""Twelfth Night"" and ""Honour, Riches, Marriage, Blessing"" from ""The Tempest"". Clusters of images are used to define the central characters: Romeo is first sighted leaning against a ruined building in an arcadian scene, complete with a pipe-playing shepherd and his dog; the livelier Juliet is associated with Capulet's formal garden, with its decorative"
"been the first play Shakespeare wrote for the new company; it was followed over the next two years by a concentrated burst of creativity that resulted in ""Romeo and Juliet"", ""Love's Labours Lost"", ""The Merchant of Venice"", and the plays in the so-called second tetralogy. The extent and nature of the non-Shakespearean repertory in the first is not known; plays such as ""Locrine"", ""The Troublesome Reign of King John"", and Christopher Marlowe's ""Edward II"" have somewhat cautiously been advanced as likely candidates. The earliest non-Shakespearean play known to have been performed by the company is Ben Jonson's ""Every Man in"
"classed with a roster of similar plays in its generation, including Dekker and Ford's ""The Sun's Darling"", Nabbes's ""Microcosmus"", Randolph's ""The Muses' Looking Glass"", Barten Holyday's ""Technogamia"", and William Strode's ""The Floating Island"", among others. In the view of one critic, ""Pathomachia"" has ""a significance for the historian of ethics and psychological theory."" Pathomachia Pathomachia, or the Battle of Affections"", also known as Love's Lodestone"", is an early 17th-century play, first printed in 1630. It is an allegory that presents a range of problems to scholars of the drama of the Jacobean and Caroline eras. The play was licensed for"
"the lovers. All characters now recognise their folly in light of recent events, and things return to the natural order, thanks to the love and death of Romeo and Juliet. The ""light"" theme in the play is also heavily connected to the theme of time since light was a convenient way for Shakespeare to express the passage of time through descriptions of the sun, moon, and stars. Time plays an important role in the language and plot of the play. Both Romeo and Juliet struggle to maintain an imaginary world void of time in the face of the harsh realities"
"love ""Anne Whateley"". Anne is depicted as shrewish in the first play, and as spiteful towards her former rival in the latter. A frosty relationship is also portrayed in Edward Bond's play ""Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death"" (1973), about Shakespeare's last days, and in the 1978 TV series ""Will Shakespeare"". ""The World's Wife"", a collection of poems by Carol Ann Duffy, features a sonnet entitled ""Anne Hathaway"", based on the passage from Shakespeare's will regarding his ""second-best bed"". Duffy chooses the view that this would be their marriage bed, and so a memento of their love, not a slight."
"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"
"Shakespeare in Love Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 American romantic period comedy-drama film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard. The film depicts an imaginary love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) and Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) while Shakespeare was writing ""Romeo and Juliet"". Several characters are based on historical figures, and many of the characters, lines, and plot devices allude to Shakespeare's plays. ""Shakespeare in Love"" received favorable reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $289.3 million worldwide and was the ninth highest-grossing film of 1998. The film"