"lord in Padua. Numerous men, including Gremio and Tranio, deem Katherina an unworthy option for marriage because of her notorious assertiveness and willfulness. On the other hand, men such as Hortensio and Gremio are eager to marry her younger sister Bianca. However, Baptista has sworn Bianca is not allowed to marry until Katherina is wed; this motivates Bianca's suitors to work together to find Katherina a husband so that they may compete for Bianca. The plot thickens when Lucentio, who has recently come to Padua to attend university, falls in love with Bianca. Overhearing Baptista say that he is on"
"(""So In Love (Reprise)""). The play opens, with Fred, Lilli, Lois and Bill performing an opening number (""We Open In Venice""). In the play, Bianca, the younger daughter of Baptista, wishes to marry, but her father will not allow it until his elder daughter, Katherine, is married. Bianca has three suitors – Gremio, Hortensio and Lucentio – and each of them tries to win her over. She is prepared to marry anyone (""...any Tom, Dick or Harry...""). Petruchio arrives, seeking a wife (""I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua""), and when he hears of Katherine, he resolves to woo"
"of love in this exchange: Gremio and Tranio literally bid for Bianca. As Baptista says, ""'Tis deeds must win the prize, and he of both/That can assure my daughter greatest dower/Shall have my Bianca's love"" (2.1.344–346). The first opera based on the play was Ferdinando Bertoni's opera buffa ""Il duca di Atene"" (1780), with libretto by Carlo Francesco Badini. Frederic Reynolds' ""Catherine and Petruchio"" (1828) is an adaptation of Garrick, with an overture taken from Gioachino Rossini, songs derived from numerous Shakespeare plays and sonnets, and music by John Braham and Thomas Simpson Cooke. Starring Fanny Ayton and James William"
"a basket to buy whatever they need, and the king tricks them into lifting them up. The youngest, Leonetta, gets her sisters to lower her and plays tricks in his castle. The king asks the merchant to marry one of his daughters and knows that Leonetta is the prankster by her willingness. The sugar figure on the wedding night appears identically in the tale. Sapia Liccarda Sapia Liccarda is an Italian literary fairy tale written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the ""Pentamerone"". It is not known whether he had a specific source, either literary or oral, for this"
"23 December 2001. Bianca (Othello) Bianca is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's ""Othello"" (c. 1601–1604). She is Cassio's jealous lover. Despite her brief appearance on stage, Bianca plays a significant role in the progress of Iago's scheme to incite Othello's jealousy of Cassio. Bianca is traditionally regarded as a courtesan, although this occupation is not specifically designated in the drama. The character was occasionally cut from performances in the 19th century on moral grounds. Bianca is not to be confused with Bianca Minola in Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"". ""Othello"" has its source in the 1565 tale ""Un"
"she will read it later. The show begins (""We Open in Venice""). Baptista, Katherine and Bianca's father, will not allow his younger daughter Bianca to marry until his older daughter Katherine is married. However, she is shrewish and ill-tempered, and no man desires to marry her. Three suitors – Lucentio, Hortensio, and Gremio – try to woo Bianca, and she says that she would marry any of them (""Tom, Dick, or Harry""). Petruchio, a friend of Lucentio, expresses a desire to marry into wealth (""I've Come to Wive it Wealthily in Padua""). The suitors hatch a plan for him to"
"Bianca (Othello) Bianca is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's ""Othello"" (c. 1601–1604). She is Cassio's jealous lover. Despite her brief appearance on stage, Bianca plays a significant role in the progress of Iago's scheme to incite Othello's jealousy of Cassio. Bianca is traditionally regarded as a courtesan, although this occupation is not specifically designated in the drama. The character was occasionally cut from performances in the 19th century on moral grounds. Bianca is not to be confused with Bianca Minola in Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"". ""Othello"" has its source in the 1565 tale ""Un Capitano Moro"" from"
"the play in Italy may reflect an element of satire against witchcraft beliefs and practices in Roman Catholic societies of his era. Scene 1: Urbino, Italy; The grounds of the Lord Governor's house; the day of Antonio and Isabella's wedding; a banquet laid out Sebastian has been absent from Urbino for three years, and has falsely been reported killed in war. His fiancee Isabella has just married the powerful aristocrat Antonio. According to the Renaissance custom of handfast, Sebastian regards Isabella as his wife in the sight of Heaven. Sebastian is distraught at the thought of Isabella consummating her marriage"
"love interest of Bernarda's daughters and suitor of Angustias, never appears on stage. The play explores themes of repression, passion, and conformity, and inspects the effects of men upon women. Upon her second husband's death, domineering matriarch Bernarda Alba imposes an eight-year mourning period on her household in accordance with her family tradition. Bernarda has five daughters, aged between 20 and 39, whom she has controlled inexorably and prohibited from any form of relationship. The mourning period further isolates them and tension mounts within the household. After a mourning ritual at the family home, eldest daughter Angustias enters, having been"
"his son Lucentio. In all the confusion, the real Vincentio is set to be arrested, when the real Lucentio appears with his newly betrothed Bianca, revealing all to a bewildered Baptista and Vincentio. Lucentio explains everything, and all is forgiven by the two fathers. Meanwhile, Hortensio has married a rich widow. In the final scene of the play there are three newly married couples; Bianca and Lucentio, the widow and Hortensio, and Katherina and Petruchio. Because of the general opinion that Petruchio is married to a shrew, a good-natured quarrel breaks out amongst the three men about whose wife is"
"Controversarium"" of Seneca the Elder. The plot of the play concerns the intertwined fortunes of two prominent Florentine families. Alberto is the Admiral of Florence; he is married to Mariana; their children are Cesario and Clarissa. Baptista, another old sailor, is a friend of Alberto, and father of Mentivole; like their fathers, Cesario and Mentivole are friends. Alberto's is a stable nuclear family; Mariana is a doting mother, especially in regard to Cesario. Baptista's situation is less happy: fourteen years earlier, he, a widower in his prime, contracted a secret marriage with Juliana, a niece of the Duke of Genoa."
"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"
"""Ford's most typical play."" The play is, in one view, ""the most puzzling of Ford's works,"" and in another, ""a botched mess."" Phillippo Caraffa, Duke of Pavia, has accidentally caught sight of a beautiful young woman named Bianca, the daughter of a Milanese gentleman, while he was hunting. Caraffa falls in love with her, and marries her. Yet the Duke's close friend Fernando also falls in love with the new duchess; she rejects him at first, but eventually acknowledges similar feelings for him. Fiormonda, the widowed sister of Caraffa, has long suffered an unrequited passion for Fernando; she perceives the"
"as the female leads in the original play. Their surname is Stratford, a nod to Shakespeare's birthplace. Patrick's surname Verona references the home of his relative character Petruchio. The characters attend Padua High School, named after where the play is set. Cameron (Lucentio, who disguises himself as a tutor named Cambio) tutors Bianca in French and slips in a line from play while obsessing over her: """"I burn, I pine, I perish"""". Patrick's character reflects the outlandish behavior of Petruchio, and Michael coerces Patrick into the marching band incident with the words from Sonnet 56: """"Sweet love, renew thy force""""."
"After a short three months of contentment, the Genoese duke discovered the marriage, exiled Baptista, and sequestered Juliana. He has not seen her since. This situation is delineated in the play's long opening scene. At the scene's opening, Cesario warns Clarissa to safeguard her virginity and her reputation; but Clarissa responds by reproving her brother about his rumored affair with Biancha, the thirteen-year-old daughter of a local tavernkeeper (she's the ""fair maid"" of the title). Cesario protests that his connection with the girl is above reproach: Biancha, he says, is beautiful but chaste. By the scene's close, Mentivole expresses his"
"""Hamlet"". The violent question of bloodlines and succession is one that serves as a key element in many of Shakespeare's plays, spanning from ""Hamlet"" to ""Richard II"" and ""Macbeth"", and it is one that is clearly one of the major concerns of ""Otranto"". The link to ""Hamlet"" is strengthened even more because of the matter of incest that is also at play in ""Otranto"". ""In ""Otranto"", the castle and its labyrinths become grounds for incest that signal the dissolution of familial bonds"", which is also a major point of issue in ""Hamlet"" since Hamlet's mother (Gertrude) and his uncle (Claudius)"
"Twelfth Night Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (who is disguised as Cesario) falls in love with Duke Orsino, who in turn is in love with the Countess Olivia. Upon meeting Viola, Countess Olivia falls in love with her thinking she is a man. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous disorder expected of the occasion, with"
"of Englishmen and women in Naples at Carnival time. ¤ In the original 1677 production, Anne Marshall played Angellica Bianca and Elizabeth Barry was Hellena. Scene 1<br> Hellena, a young woman about to enter a convent, questions her sister Florinda about whom she loves. Florinda admits she loves Belvile, an English colonel, but her father is determined that she would marry the elderly Don Vincentio (who never actually appears in the play). Further complicating matters, Florinda's brother, Don Pedro, wants Florinda to marry his friend Don Antonio. Don Pedro enters with Stephano (his servant) and Callis (the sisters' governess). Pedro"
"Sebastian (Twelfth Night) Sebastian is one of the main characters from William Shakespeare's play ""Twelfth Night"", believed to have been written around 1600 or 1601. It has been played by several famous actors, and even by actress Vivien Leigh in an acclaimed production directed by John Gielgud in 1955. Sebastian is the twin brother of Viola. After the beginning of the play, Viola mentions that her brother Sebastian is drowned in the sea. The next appearance of Sebastian denies this, as he has been rescued by Antonio, a sea Captain who looks after Sebastian at some risk to himself. Their"
"that when Shakespeare dramatised the poem and expanded Mercutio's role, he introduced a brother for him in order to suggest a more fraternal character. Shakespeare appears to be the first dramatist to have used the name Valentine prior to ""Romeo and Juliet"", but he himself had actually used the name previously. In ""Two Gentlemen of Verona"", a play about two brothers and also set in Verona, Valentine is a true and constant lover and Proteus is a fickle one. While not primarily based on it, ""Two Gentlemen of Verona"" adapts several incidents from Brooke's poem, and in all these instances"
"Viola appears with the duke, the siblings are reunited and the Duke resolves to marry Viola. Sebastian's character is necessary to allow Viola to unravel the roles she has accumulated in the play, and to allow her to return to being a woman, and allowing her to marry Orsino. He is 23. Sebastian (Twelfth Night) Sebastian is one of the main characters from William Shakespeare's play ""Twelfth Night"", believed to have been written around 1600 or 1601. It has been played by several famous actors, and even by actress Vivien Leigh in an acclaimed production directed by John Gielgud in"
"The play tackles themes of marriage, sexuality and war. Benito and Gabriela's relationship is in some ways mirrored by that of Cat and Coyote. Coyote is a hunter and wild where Benito is a soldier who has been involved in grisly acts of war, and Cat is a homebody, loved and taken care of with no knowledge of the stimulating and dangerous desert world in which Coyote lives where Gabriela is a housewife who is trapped in Barstow and fears the war. In addition to this, both the Cat and Gabriela refer to themselves as ""fixed"", as the Cat is"
"offer or marriage. Frapolo tries to brave out his disguise; when this fails, he admits his deception. Paulina's pride takes a mighty tumble: not only does she lose the prince to her sister, but her nurse reveals that Paulina is her own daughter, and not Angellina's sister at all. The false prince Frapolo and the false gentlewoman Paulina end up as husband and wife. The Sisters (play) The Sisters is a Caroline stage play, a comedy written by James Shirley. It was the last of Shirley's plays performed in London prior to the closing of the theatres in September 1642,"
"of fire, knives and hammers. The blow of mercy comes when Barbara is beheaded by her own father. Buhez Sante Barba Buhez Sante Barba (""The Life of Saint Barbara"") is a mystery play in Middle Breton verse on the life and miracles of the martyr saint Barbara, daughter of King Dioscurus of Nicomedia. It first appeared in print in 1557. Barbara, who has secretly embraced the Christian faith, is carefully guarded by her pagan father, who keeps her shut up in a tower in order to preserve her from the outside world. Barbara convinces the builders of her prison to"
"Viola (Twelfth Night) Viola is the protagonist of the play ""Twelfth Night"", written by William Shakespeare. Viola's actions produce all of the play's momentum. She is a young woman of Messaline. In the beginning Viola is found shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria and separated from her twin brother, not knowing whether he is alive or dead, the Sea Captain tells her that this place is ruled by the Duke Orsino, who is in love with the Countess Olivia. Viola wants to serve her, but, finding this impossible, she has the Sea Captain dress her up like a eunuch, so"
"“Popery,” while portraying several Italian characters of quality as honorable and virtuous. Behn “emphasizes that, while Whiggish middle-class patriots are to be derided, upper-class good taste is international”. The play centers around two virtuous sisters, Marcella and Cornelia. Marcella has been promised to Octavio for marriage, but has fallen in love with Sir Henry Fillamour. Cornelia is bound for the convent. They have run away to Rome together, posing as courtesans named Euphemia and Silvianetta, so that they may be free to control their own futures. When Fillamour and Galliard arrive in Rome, they notice the beautiful Marcella and Cornelia"
"3 starring Beth Chalmers as Bianca, John McAndrew as Leantio, Bill Wallis as Guardiano and Sara McGayghe as Isabella. A musical adaptation is being workshopped ahead of performances in May 2017 with students of the Single Honours Musical Theatre course at University of Chichester. Women Beware Women Women Beware Women is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton, and first published in 1657. The date of authorship of the play is deeply uncertain. Scholars have estimated its origin anywhere from 1612 to 1627; 1623–24 has been plausibly suggested. The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 9 September 1653"
"result is a snapshot of Restoration comic tastes. Beatrice and Benedick are brought in to parallel Claudio and Hero; the emphasis throughout is on witty conversation, and Shakespeare's thematic focus on lust is steadily downplayed. The play ends with three marriages: Benedick's to Beatrice, Claudio's to Hero, and Isabella's to an Angelo whose attempt on Isabella's virtue was a ploy. Davenant wrote many of the bridging scenes and recast much of Shakespeare's verse as heroic couplets. A final feature of Restoration stagecraft impacted productions of Shakespeare. The taste for opera that the exiles had developed in France made its mark"
"also based his Franceschina in ""The Dutch Courtesan"" on Bianca Maria.) An account of Bianca Maria's life and death was included by Matteo Bandello in his 1554 ""Novelle"" collection. François de Belleforest translated Bandello's account into French in 1565, which in turn appeared in English as the 24th story in William Painter's ""Palace of Pleasure"" (1567). The critical response to ""The Insatiate Countess"" has compared and contrasted the sexual morality of the play with Marston's other works. The play's richness in female characterisation, with four prominent women's roles, has also been noted. As the play opens, Countess Isabella is at"
"and, with Giovanni Battista Giraldi's ""Orbecche"", led to literary debates on tragedy and theatrical morals and decorum through to the next century. Elio Brancaforte's translation is the first translation of the play to English and it has just been published by the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Toronto, 2013. Canace (play) Canace is a verse tragedy by Italian playwright Sperone Speroni (1500-1588). It is based on the Greek legend of Canace, the daughter of Aeolus, who was forced by her father to commit suicide for having fallen in love with her brother, Macar. The play was composed for Padua's"
"different women, each of whom was a gifted painter in her own right. He left his first wife, Hilda Carline, who put her ambition aside to make a home for him, to marry Patricia Preece, a defiantly unconventional lesbian who was incapable of loving him. Much of the play revolves around his passionate attachment to both women. Stanley (play) Stanley is a 1996 play written by English playwright, Pam Gems. The play was premiered at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in London. The play explores the complicated life of British painter Stanley Spencer, who was played by Antony Sher"
"particularly when Petruchio discusses taming strategies. The ending of Shakespeare's play ""The Taming of the Shrew"", particularly the question of whether Katharine is actually 'tamed' or not is frequently debated. Garrick's play provides a narrower interpretation than Shakespeare's ambiguous ending. There is no wager. Instead, Catharine makes her speech to Bianca, though without the offer to put her hand beneath her husband's foot. Her reasons for women's subordination, namely that their ""soft and weak and smooth"" bodies are unsuited for life outside the home, are omitted, as are her assertions that ""my mind hath been as big as one of"
"Octavia (play) Octavia is a Roman tragedy that focuses on three days in the year 62 AD during which Nero divorced and exiled his wife Claudia Octavia and married another (Poppaea Sabina). The play also deals with the irascibility of Nero and his inability to take heed of the philosopher Seneca's advice to rein in his passions. The play was attributed to Seneca, but modern scholarship generally discredits this. It is presumed to have been written later in the Flavian period during the 1st century, after the deaths of both Nero and Seneca. Octavia, weary of her existence, bewails her"