"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."
"""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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"were a new song written by the Duke for Lady Liv. Lady Liv finds Vy-man charming, and a series of mistaken pairings results. Meanwhile, several of the performers at the Cotton Club are rebelling against the overly serious and tyrannical club manager, Rev. Since Rev has a crush on Lady Liv, the performers persuade him that he should woo her by learning to swing and scat, giving up his old fashioned ballads. More confusion results before the truth is revealed, and the couples are appropriately united. Play On! Play On! is a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"", featuring the"
"them ""in flagrante"" and break off the engagement. However, Joan also catches Hilary wooing Pinkie. During an eventful dance sequence, Toby overcomes his reluctance to marry, Sir Barnaby gives way, and all three couples are free to marry. Primrose (musical) Primrose is a musical in three acts with a book by Guy Bolton and George Grossmith Jr., lyrics by Desmond Carter and Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. It centers on a writer whose story-within-a-story forms the basis of the plot. It was written expressly for the London stage, where it ran for 255 performances in 1924 and 1925."
"true love's worth gold, and breeds delight."" It is set to the tune of, ""The True Lovers Delight; Or, The Cambridge Horn."" The ballad's opening lines are, ""LAte in the Morning as I abroad was walking,/All in a meadow green, I heard two Lovers talking;."" Extant copies of the ballad can be found at the Glasgow University Library, the British Library, the Huntington Library, the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, and the National Library of Scotland. The play begins with voyeuristic means: the, seemingly omniscient, narrator stumbles upon two witty lovers on a hilly knoll close to a river. The"
"time. John Stuart Mill, in his ""Autobiography"", recalled that in his childhood, Baillie's ""Constantine Paleologus"" appeared to him 'one of the most glorious of human compositions' and that he continued to think it 'one of the best dramas of the last two centuries'. Two ""songs"" from ""Ethwald"", ""Hark! the cock crows"" and ""Once upon my cheek he said the roses grew"", were set to music by the English composer John Wall Callcott. One of her few detractors was Francis Jeffrey, who in 1803 published a long condemnatory review of the ""Plays on the Passions"" in the Edinburgh Review. He attacked"
"of the problems they will face and their desire to return someday to the Garden of Eden (""In the Beginning""). Original London Production ""Act I"" ""Act II"" ""Chorus (both acts)"" American Productions ""1991 Prince Edward Theatre Production"" ""Track Listing for the Paper Mill Playhouse Cast Recording (1998)"" Children of Eden Children of Eden is a two-act musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John Caird. The musical is based on the Book of Genesis, with Act I telling the story of Adam and Eve, Cain, and Abel, while Act II deals with Noah and the"
"play's in which Max and Elsa sing. Along with ""How Can Love Survive?"", which was also cut from the film, it is the only number that addresses her relationship with the Captain. The satiric, cynical number, which is about ""amoral political compromising"" (and in fact an anti-protest song), is theorised by ""Broadway Musicals: A Hundred Year History"" to be the first-ever rock song to be introduced to a Broadway musical. The book cites its similarity to songs by the Kingston Trio from around that time. The song, along with ""How Can Love Survive"" was cited in ""The Oxford Companion to"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"he should live for Jessie's sake. Barney pulls Harry out of the wheelchair and they fight on the floor. The fight is broken up and Maxwell tells the Heegans to take Harry home. Harry hurls the Tassie to the ground. The Heegans leave, Sylvester pushing the chair and guiding Teddy. Jessie, Susie, Maxwell and Barney return to the dance. The Silver Tassie (opera) The Silver Tassie is an opera in four acts by the English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. The English libretto was written by Amanda Holden based on the 1927/28 play of the same name by Seán O'Casey. The opera"
"characters fixed to the tree move on and cease to have to wait for Godot. Much of the play is steeped in scriptural allusion. The boy from Act One mentions that he and his brother mind Godot's sheep and goats. Much can be read into Beckett's inclusion of the story of the two thieves from Luke 23:39–43 and the ensuing discussion of repentance. It is easy to see the solitary tree as representative of the Christian cross or the tree of life. Some see God and Godot as one and the same. Vladimir's ""Christ have mercy upon us!"" could be"
"his victim rise up, more than one murderer has confessed his crime""). He asks the players to enact the play ""The Murder of Gonzago"", saying he shall tell them when to pour the poison. He then asks the pages to bring in wine for all. 10. ""Chanson Bacchique"". Seizing a goblet, Hamlet sings a song in praise of wine (Hamlet: ""Ô vin, dissipe la tristesse qui pése sur mon cœur! À moi les rêves de l'ivresse et le rire moqueur!"" – ""O wine, dispel the sorrow which weighs on my heart! Give me dreams of euphoria and the mocking laugh!"")."
"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"
"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"
"world. Shakespeare sings the funeral song of Act IV, Scene 2, when asked about his view of death (the song is titled ""Fear No More""). ""Fear no more the heat of the sun"" is the line that Winnie and her husband are trying to remember in Samuel Beckett's ""Happy Days"" as they sit exposed to the elements. 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"
"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"
"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, love, in the Forest of Arden. In the forest, they encounter a variety of memorable characters, notably the melancholy traveller Jaques who speaks"
"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."
"""in originality and breadth of execution, and in complex relationship to the academic, literary, theatrical and social life of the period, ranks supreme among the extant memorials of the university stage"", and that they are ""among the most inexplicably neglected key documents of Shakespeare's age"". The first play, ""The Pilgrimage to Parnassus"", describes allegorically the progress of the two students through the university courses of logic, rhetoric, etc., and the temptations that are set before them by their meeting with ""Madido"", a drunkard, ""Stupido"", a puritan who hates learning, ""Amoretto"", a lover, and ""Ingenioso"", a disappointed student. The first play"
"Mazel Tov (play) Mazel-tov (Yiddish: מזל טוב, ""mazel tov""; Russian title either «Мазлтов» or «Поздравляем», 1889), is a one-act Yiddish-language play by Sholem Aleichem. The play focuses on the relationship between the servants downstairs, the cook Beyle, and the upstairs rich, the Landlord. One memorable servant song from the 1889 play ""Bitter is the food That gets burnt, Bitter is it to work Beyond your strength"", was later recycled and included into the 1949 and 1969 Polish Jewish State Theatre production of The Treasure in the mouth of another servant, Zelda. The play was revived after the Revolution among the"
"ran with it."" Much of Mumford & Sons' lyrical content has a strong literary influence, its debut album name deriving from William Shakespeare's ""Much Ado About Nothing"". The track ""Sigh No More"" includes lines from the play such as ""Serve God love me and mend"", ""For man is a giddy thing"", and ""One foot in sea and one on shore."" The title of the song ""Roll Away Your Stone"" is an allusion to ""Macbeth""; the song includes the line ""Stars hide your fires/ And these here are my desires"" which borrows and pares down Macbeth's line in act 1, scene"
"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"
"Shakespeare's 1603 play ""Othello, the Moor of Venice"". In the play, the title character utters the following lines: Stew commented that the quote reminds him of a rock musician who tries to attract a girl with his on-the-road stories. ""Passing"" also refers to the history of African Americans passing as white, as well as the passage of time. The plot itself involves an anonymous protagonist, called the Youth, who travels on a picaresque journey to find ""the real"", complicated by his need to rebel against his mother and society, ""passing"" through place to place and from lover to lover. His"
"and music of Shakespearean passion. One or two of the songs introduced into his plays are justly famous and show a real lyrical gift. Nor in estimating his dramatic position and his effect upon his time must it be forgotten that his classical and mythological plots, flavourless and dull as they would be to a modern audience, were charged with interest to those courtly hearers who saw in ""Midas"" Philip II, Elizabeth in Cynthia and perhaps Leicester's unwelcome marriage with Lady Sheffield in the love affair between Endymion and Tellus which brings the former under Cynthia's displeasure. As a matter"
"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"