In which Shakespeare play does the clown, Feste appear?
"sir.<br> And anon, sir,<br> I'll be with you again,<br> In a trice,<br> Like to the old Vice,<br> Your need to sustain.<br> Who with dagger of lath,<br> In his rage and his wrath,<br> Cries ""Ah ha"" to the devil.<br> Like a mad lad,<br> ""Pare thy nails, dad.""<br> Adieu, good man devils. Feste Feste is a fool in the William Shakespeare comedy ""Twelfth Night"". He is attached to the household of the Countess Olivia. He has apparently been there for some time, as he was a ""fool that the Lady Olivia's father took much delight in"" (2.4). Although Olivia's father has died"
"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"
"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"
"fools from making Arden out to be worse than it really is. Feste was almost certainly written for Armin, as he is a scholar, a singer, and a wit. Feste's purpose is to reveal the foolishness of those around him. Lear's fool differs from both Touchstone and Feste as well as from other clowns of his era. Touchstone and Feste are philosopher-fools; Lear's fool is the natural fool of whom Armin studied and wrote. Armin here had the opportunity to display his studies. The fool speaks the prophecy lines, which he tells—largely ignored—to Lear before disappearing from the play altogether."
"written for the particular talents of famous Elizabethan actor, William Kempe. After Kempe left the troupe, Shakespeare's comic characters changed dramatically. Kempe was known for his improvising, and ""Hamlet"" contains a famous complaint at improvisational clowning (Act 3, Scene 2). Perhaps central to the Bard's redrawing of the fool was the actor Robert Armin: ... Shakespeare created a whole series of domestic fools for [Ar- min]. [His] greatest roles, Touchstone in ""As You Like It,""(1599), Feste in ""Twelfth Night,""(1600), and (the) fool in ""King Lear,""(1605); helped Shakespeare resolve the tension between thematic material and the traditional entertainment role of the"
"the Renaissance England Marlowe among the University Wits introduced comic relief through the presentation of crude scenes in Doctor Faustus following the native tradition of Interlude which was usually introduced between two tragic plays. In fact, in the classical tradition the mingling of the tragic and the comic was not allowed. William Shakespeare deviated from the classical tradition and used comic relief in ""Hamlet"", ""Macbeth"", ""Othello"", ""The Merchant of Venice"" and ""Romeo and Juliet"". The Porter scene in ""Macbeth"", the grave-digger scene in ""Hamlet"" and the gulling of Roderigo provide immense comic relief. The mockery of the fool in ""King"
"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"
"thunderbolt. The ghosts fall on their knees."" The actors in Shakespeare's company included the famous Richard Burbage, William Kempe, Henry Condell and John Heminges. Burbage played the leading role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including ""Richard III"", ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", and ""King Lear"". The popular comic actor Will Kempe played the servant Peter in ""Romeo and Juliet"" and Dogberry in ""Much Ado About Nothing"", among other characters. He was replaced around 1600 by Robert Armin, who played roles such as Touchstone in ""As You Like It"" and the fool in ""King Lear"". In 1613, Sir Henry Wotton"
"as Endless in 'No Song no Supper,' and a third as Fustian in 'Sylvester Dangerwood' to the Dangerwood of Bannister. A portrait by Dewilde, engraved by Cawthorne, is in the National Art Library, South Kensington. Richard ""Dicky"" Suett Richard ""Dicky"" Suett (1755–6 July 1805), was an English comedian who was George III's favourite Shakespearean clown, and star at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane for twenty-five years. Suett was born in Chelsea in 1755, and at ten years of age entered the choir at Westminster Abbey as a pupil of Benjamin Cooke. In 1769 he sang at the Ranelagh Gardens, 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"
"Falstaff (opera) Falstaff () is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" and scenes from ""Henry IV"", parts 1 and 2. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan. Verdi wrote ""Falstaff"", which was the last of his 28 operas, as he was approaching the age of 80. It was his second comedy, and his third work based on a Shakespeare play, following ""Macbeth"" and ""Otello"". The plot revolves around the thwarted, sometimes farcical, efforts of the fat"
"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"
"a comedian?"" (an Elizabethan term for ""actor""). Viola's reply, ""I am not that I play"", epitomising her adoption of the role of Cesario, is regarded as one of several references to theatricality and ""playing"" within the play. The plot against Malvolio revolves around these ideas, and Fabian remarks in Act III, Scene iv: ""If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction"". In Act IV, Scene ii, Feste (The Fool) plays both parts in the ""play"" for Malvolio's benefit, alternating between adopting the voice of the local curate, Sir Topas, and his own"
"golden necklace which she discarded when first shipwrecked on Illyria's shores. Kingsley's Feste dresses in old clothes and appears to be a wanderer of no fixed abode, though he slips in and out of Olivia's estate at his will. He plays a number of musical instruments and, like most of the cast, displays a mixture of comedy and pathos. Feste, as a fool, has a repertoire of songs: O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?<br> O, stay and hear! Your true love's coming,<br> That can sing both high and low.<br> Trip no further, pretty sweeting;<br> Journeys end in lovers meeting,<br>"
"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"
"English names. On the Elizabethan stage, the role of Flute and the other Mechanicals was intended to be doubled with Titania's four fairy escorts: Moth (also spelled Mote), Mustardseed, Cobweb, and Peaseblossom. Francis Flute Francis Flute is a character in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". His occupation is a bellows-mender. He is forced to play the female role of Thisbe in ""Pyramus and Thisbe"", a play-within-the-play which is performed for Theseus' marriage celebration. In the play Flute (Thisbe) speaks through the wall (played by Tom Snout) to Pyramus (Nick Bottom). Flute is a young, excited actor who is disappointed"
"the Hatter (1913 and 1921). Alice in Wonderland (musical) Alice in Wonderland is a musical pantomime by Henry Savile Clarke (1841–1893; book and lyrics), Walter Slaughter (music) and Aubrey Hopwood (lyrics), based on Lewis Carroll's books ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and ""Through the Looking-Glass"". The piece, billed as ""A musical dream play in two acts"", achieved considerable popularity. At Carroll's request, Slaughter retained the old tunes in the parodies such as ""Bonny Dundee"". The pantomime opened on 23 December 1886 at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London. Phoebe Carlo played Alice. ""The Theatre"" wrote in its review, """"Alice in"
"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"
"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"
"and tells them of the stresses that the Bottom brothers and Shakespeare face (""Welcome to the Renaissance (Reprise)""). Shakespeare shows the stress he faces while trying to write hits and manage his fame (""Hard To Be The Bard""). A spy tells him that the brothers are trying to steal Shakespeare's upcoming hit. An excited Shakespeare decides to disguise himself as ""Toby Belch"" and audition for the brothers' troupe in order to steal the play. Meanwhile, the troupe is rehearsing ""Omelette: The Musical"" (""It's Eggs!""). Shylock has become their new investor, though they cannot find a title that would make his"
"part in ""King John"", a part in ""Measure For Measure"" and a part in ""The Taming of the Shrew"". Then I proceeded to learn what Shakespeare was all about, in light of the realistic method of acting that I had discovered during my years with the Group Theatre. The following year, I found myself doing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and that was really the opening of the can of peas, for me."" At Stratford he played many roles, notably Feste in ""Twelfth Night"" in a production featuring Katharine Hepburn as Viola, and Prospero in a celebrated production of"
"of the National Theatre. Shakespeare plays in which Cellier has appeared include ""Hamlet"", ""The Merchant of Venice"", ""Othello"", ""Love's Labour's Lost"", ""Measure for Measure"", ""As You Like It"", ""King John"", ""Julius Caesar"", ""Cymbeline"" and ""Henry V"", as the Dauphin. Other roles include Pinchard in Georges Feydeau's ""An Absolute Turkey"", Tommy Devon in ""Aunt Edwina"", The Dean of Archeo in ""Body and Soul"", Eric Shelding in ""The Case in Question"", Danforth in ""The Crucible"", Duke Francis in ""The Dark Horse"", Dr. Finache in Jacques Charon's National Theatre production of Feydeau's ""A Flea in her Ear"", Charles Blutham in ""Juno and the"
"Ben Jonson's ""Every Man in His Humour"". Falstaff is a more ambiguous case. Though Falstaff presents some features of an Elizabethan dramatic clown, his character is higher in class and more complex than the other roles with which Kempe is associated. In 2008, comedian Tim FitzHigham re-enacted Kemp's Nine Day's Wonder by Morris dancing from London to Norwich, forming the basis of his play The Bard's Fool, performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. William Kempe William Kempe (died 1603), commonly referred to as Will Kemp, was an English actor and dancer specialising in comic roles and best known for having been"
"play is based on various accounts of the semi-legendary Brythonic figure Leir of Britain, whose name has been linked by some scholars to the Brythonic god Lir/Llŷr, though in actuality the names are not etymologically related. Shakespeare's most important source is probably the second edition of ""The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande"" by Raphael Holinshed, published in 1587. Holinshed himself found the story in the earlier ""Historia Regum Britanniae"" by Geoffrey of Monmouth, which was written in the 12th century. Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene"", published 1590, also contains a character named Cordelia, who also dies from hanging, as"
"fool, Jane Foole. Will was reputed to be the only man who made Mary laugh, apart from John Heywood. Will's last public event was the coronation of Elizabeth I. He was probably the William Sommers whose death is recorded in the parish of St. Leonards, Shoreditch, on 15 June 1560. A modern plaque in the church commemorates his burial there. William Sommers made a number of appearances in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama and literature: for example, Thomas Nashe's ""Pleesant Comedie called Summers last Will and Testament"" (play first performed in 1592, published in 1600), Samuel Rowlands's ""Good Newes and Bad"
"flaws, which overturn order and destroy the hero and those he loves. In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more major plays: ""Cymbeline"", ""The Winter's Tale"" and ""The Tempest"", as well as the collaboration, ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"". Less bleak than the tragedies, these four plays are graver in tone than the comedies of the 1590s, but they end with reconciliation and the forgiveness of potentially tragic errors. Shakespeare collaborated on two further surviving plays, ""Henry VIII"" and ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"", probably with John Fletcher. Other important figures in the Elizabethan theatre include"
"(Some English Renaissance plays derive their titles from comic subplot characters; ""Blurt Master Constable"" and ""Grim the Collier of Croydon"" are two examples.) Within the context of the Shakespeare authorship debate the subplot (Act V) of ""The Witty Fair One"" has been interpreted as a disclosure of the true Shakespeare's (Marlowe's) destiny: William Shakspere (Stratford) and James Shirley The Witty Fair One The Witty Fair One is a Caroline era stage play, an early comedy by James Shirley. Critics have cited the play as indicative of the evolution of English comic drama from the humors comedy of Ben Jonson to"
"for pageantry and symbolism, extended throughout the Tudor and Stuart periods with Lord of Misrule characters, sometimes called 'Captain Christmas', 'Prince Christmas' or 'The Christmas Lord', presiding over feasting and entertainment in grand houses, university colleges and Inns of Court."" In his allegorical play ""Summer's Last Will and Testament"", written in about 1592, Thomas Nashe introduces for comic effect a miserly Christmas character who refuses to keep the feast. He is reminded by Summer of the traditional role that he ought to be playing: ""Christmas, how chance thou com’st not as the rest, / Accompanied with some music, or some"
"Le roi s'amuse Le roi s'amuse (; literally, ""The King Amuses Himself"" or ""The King Has Fun"") is a French play in five acts written by Victor Hugo. First performed on 22 November 1832 but banned by the government after one evening, the play was used for Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 opera ""Rigoletto"". The action takes place in Paris in an unspecified year in the 1520s. The first act is set during a nocturnal party at the Louvre palace; the second in the deserted cul-de-sac Bussy; the third in an antechamber of the King at the Louvre, and the fourth and"
"Cymbeline Cymbeline , also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain (""c."" AD 10–14) and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify ""Cymbeline"" as a romance or even a comedy. Like ""Othello"" and ""The Winter's Tale"", it deals with the themes of innocence and jealousy. While the precise date of composition remains unknown, the play was certainly produced as early as 1611. Cymbeline, the Roman Empire's vassal"
"based on the 1623 First Folio. Under this referencing system, 1.2.51 means Act 1, Scene 2, line 51. The Taming of the Shrew The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew."
"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"
"and Stephano were two characters used to show how wrong human beings are. Unlike Antonio, which was featured in no less than four plays, the name Stephano only appears in one of Shakespeare's other plays, ""The Merchant of Venice"". Stephano (The Tempest) Stephano ( ) is a boisterous and often drunk butler of King Alonso in William Shakespeare's play, ""The Tempest"". He, Trinculo and Caliban plot against Prospero, the ruler of the island on which the play is set and the former Duke of Milan in Shakespeare's fictional universe. In the play, he wants to take over the island and"