"Comedy, a corruption in the text or a unique dramatic effect that the author intended. Variations in this play are found in the following conventions: The Birds (play) The Birds (Greek: ""Ornithes"") is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia where it won second prize. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs. Unlike the author's other early plays, it includes no direct mention of the Peloponnesian War and there are few"
"a new city in the sky to be named ""Nubicuculia"" or Cloud Cuckoo Land (, '), thereby gaining control over all communications between men and gods. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer used the word (German ') in his publication ""On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason"" in 1813, as well as later in his main work ""The World as Will and Representation"" and in other places. Here, he gave it its figurative sense by reproaching other philosophers for only talking about Cloud-cuckoo-land. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche refers to the term in his essay ""On Truth and"
"The Shoe Bird The Shoe Bird is a 1964 children's novel by Southern writer Eudora Welty. The novel tells the story of a Parrot in a shoe store, as he talks to other birds about shoes. Welty, who had never written any children's literature before, wrote it to satisfy a contractual obligation with her publisher Harcourt Brace and to pay for a new roof on her house. An orchestral ballet was composed by Lehman Engel and performed by the Jackson Ballet Guild in 1968. A 2002 choral piece was also commissioned by the Mississippi Boy Choir and composed by composer"
"of Thrace, Teres, which Webster believes was made necessary by the popularity of Sophocles play around this time causing confusion between the two names. Based on references in ""The Birds"" it is also known that another Greek playwright, Philocles, had also written a play on the subject of Tereus, and there is evidence both from ""The Birds"" and from a scholiast that Sophocles' play came first. Some scholars believe that Sophocles' ""Tereus"" was influenced by Euripides' ""Medea"", and thus must have been produced after 431. However, this is not certain and any influence may well have been in the opposite"
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1963) is a play based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel of the same name. Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation, with music by Teiji Ito, made its Broadway preview on November 12, 1963, its premiere on November 13, and ran until January 25, 1964 for a total of one preview and 82 performances. Since then, the play has had two revivals: first off-Broadway in 1971, with Danny DeVito as Martini, then as a Broadway production in 2001 with Gary Sinise as McMurphy. The film version ""One Flew Over the"
"living in Wolkenkuckucksheim—cloud-cuckoo land."" (June 9, 2012). Yuri N. Maltsev, an Austrian economist and economic historian, uses the term to describe the lack of promised results in the communist states in his forward to 1920 essay by Ludwig von Mises: ""Today, the disastrous consequences of enforcing the utopia on the unfortunate populations of the communist states are clear even to their leaders. As Mises predicted, despite the cloud-cuckoo lands of their fancy, roasted pigeons failed to fly into the mouths of the comrades."" The phrase has been used in poetry, music, film and by writers. ""Cloudcuckooland"", a poetry collection by"
"The Green Bird The Green Bird is a 1765 commedia dell'arte play by Carlo Gozzi. It is a sequel to ""The Love of Three Oranges."" The play is set in the imaginary city of Monterotondo. Pantalone remembers how 18 years ago, King Tartaglia left for the wars, leaving his wicked mother, Tartagliona, in control of the government. Tartagliona buried alive her daughter-in-law, Queen Ninetta, and ordered Pantalone to kill her twin children, Barbarina and Renzo. Pantalone instead wrapped them tightly in oilcloth and threw them in the river, tricking Tartagliona by showing her the hearts of two young goats. Pantalone"
"The Field (play) The Field is a play written by John B. Keane, first performed in 1965. It tells the story of the hardened Irish farmer ""Bull"" McCabe and his love for the land he rents. The play debuted at Dublin's Olympia Theatre in 1965, with Ray McAnally as ""The Bull"" and Eamon Keane as ""The Bird"" O'Donnell. The play was published in 1966 by Mercier Press. A new version with some changes was produced in 1987. A film adaptation was released in 1990, directed by Jim Sheridan with Richard Harris in the lead role. John B. Keane based the"
"The Time of the Cuckoo The Time of the Cuckoo is a play by Arthur Laurents. It focuses on the bittersweet romance between Leona Samish, a single American executive secretary vacationing in Europe, and Renato Di Rossi, a shopkeeper she meets in Venice. Di Rossi, trapped in a loveless marriage, relentlessly pursues Leona, who initially is shocked by the thought of an illicit affair but eventually succumbs to the Italian's charms. The Broadway production was directed by Harold Clurman. The play opened at the Empire Theater on October 15, 1952 and closed on May 30, 1953 after 263 performances. The"
"had played in the company's productions of Fletcher's plays during the previous three decades). Bird was also active, at least in a marginal way, in the world of authorship, letters, and publishing. He wrote or co-wrote prefaces or dedications to dramatic works published in his era — the first editions of ""The Lady's Trial"" (1639), ""The Sun's Darling"" (1656), and ""The Witch of Edmonton"" (1658), works of John Ford and collaborators. Bird resumed his acting career once the theatres re-opened in 1660. He was one of the fifteen men — Thomas Killigrew, Sir Robert Howard, and thirteen actors — who"
"benefits the audience derives from birds (such as early warnings of a change in seasons) and it invites the audience to join them since birds easily manage to do things mere men are afraid to do (such as beating up their fathers and committing adultery). Pisthetaerus and Euelpides emerge from the Hoopoe's bower laughing at each other's unconvincing resemblance to a bird. After discussion, they name the city-in-the-sky ""Nubicuculia,"" or literally ""cloud-cuckoo-land"" (Νεφελοκοκκυγία), and then Pisthetaerus begins to take charge of things, ordering his friend to oversee the building of the city walls while he organizes and leads a religious"
"The Birds (story) ""The Birds"" is a horror story by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection ""The Apple Tree"". It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community that are attacked by flocks of birds and seabirds in ""kamikaze"" fashion. The story is set in du Maurier's native Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War. By the end of the story it becomes clear that all of Britain is under aerial assault. The story was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's film ""The Birds"", released in 1963, the same year"
"a definite fact. Six days later on 12 February 1913, Lydekker wrote again, confessing that ""the note was uttered by a bricklayer's labourer"". Letters about the first cuckoo became a tradition in the newspaper. ""Birds"" was first published ""in thirty-seven parts of three sheets each, at intervals of two months; the first Part was issued in July 1837, and the last in May 1843."" The sheets were then collected into three volumes, with the addition of ""many occurrences of rare birds, and of some that were even new to Britain"". The additional birds were listed and briefly described in the"
"the Cuckoo"", were all based on Wordsworth's recalling both the sensory and emotional experience of his childhood. From ""To the Cuckoo"", he moved on to ""The Rainbow"", both written on 26 March 1802, and then on to ""Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"". As he moved from poem to poem, he began to question why, as a child, he once was able to see an immortal presence within nature but as an adult that was fading away except in the few moments he was able to meditate on experiences found in poems like ""To the Cuckoo"". While"
"was auctioned by Christie's in 1980, where the manuscript was purchased by and for Gilbert White's museum at The Wakes, Selborne, where it is displayed. Thomas Bewick, in the first volume (""Land Birds"") of his ""A History of British Birds"" (1797), presents a phenological list of 19 birds which are ""chiefly selected from Mr. White's Natural History of Selborne, and are arranged nearly in the order of their appearing"". The list begins with the wryneck (""Middle of March""), places the cuckoo in the middle of April, and ends with the flycatcher in the middle of May. Charles Darwin read the"
"A Cuckoo in the Nest A Cuckoo in the Nest is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the second in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls at the theatre between 1923 and 1933. Several of the cast formed the regular core cast for the later Aldwych farces. The plot concerns two friends, a man and a woman, who are each married to other people. While travelling together, they are obliged by circumstances to share a hotel bedroom. Everyone else assumes the worst, but"
"him of luxury and avarice, but no earlier source mentions this. In the ""Protagoras"" of Plato, (dramatic date c. 430 BC), Prodicus is mentioned as having previously arrived in Athens. He appears in a play of Eupolis, and in ""The Clouds"" (423 BC) and ""The Birds"" (414 BC) of Aristophanes. He came frequently to Athens on public business. His pupils included the orators Theramenes and Isocrates, and in the year of the death of Socrates (399 BC), Prodicus was still living. According to the statement of Philostratus, on which little reliance can be placed, he delivered his lecture on virtue"
"Birds of Paradise (musical) Birds of Paradise is a musical with music by David Evans, lyrics by Winnie Holzman, and the book by Evans and Holzman. It had a brief run Off-Broadway in 1987. The story involves a group of amateur actors involved in a musical adaptation of ""The Seagull"". The Harbour Island Players is an amateur theatre group whose lives are turned upside down when a professional actor, down on his luck, decides to direct and star in one of their productions. The group is awaiting the arrival of Lawrence Wood, the actor. Wood, who grew up on Harbour"
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind as well as a critique of behaviorism and a tribute to individualistic principles. It was adapted into the broadway (and later off-broadway) play ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" by Dale Wasserman in 1963. Bo Goldman adapted the novel into a 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman, which won five Academy Awards. ""Time"" magazine included the novel in its ""100"
"War, he began to write novels and plays. He turned his 1921 novel, ""The Dippers"", into a play that was first produced in the West End in 1922. His big break came in 1925, when the actor-manager Tom Walls bought the performing rights to his play ""A Cuckoo in the Nest"", which ran for more than a year at the Aldwych. He followed this success with eight more farces for Walls and his team; the last in the series closed in 1933. Most of the farces were adapted for film in the 1930s and 1940s, with Travers writing the screenplays"
"The Early Bird (play) The Early Bird by Leo Butler was first produced at the Queen's Theatre in the Belfast Festival in Ireland in 2006 and was directed by Rachel O'Riordan. The play is deliberately left without a setting or much stage directions to reflect the mindset of the two characters Debbie and Jack whose daughter disappears. The dialogue moves between surreal hyper-reality and plain naturalism jumping between time. The title comes from the saying ""the early bird catches the worm"" which Debbie repeatedly told their daughter in the mornings before she went to school which was the last time"
"(""On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring""), Handel (""The Cuckoo and the Nightingale""), Respighi (""The Birds""), Rimsky-Korsakov (""Snow Maidens""), Dvořák, Saint-Saens (""Carnival of the Animals""), Vivaldi (""Concerto in A"", The Cuckoo), and Gustav Mahler (""First Symphony"", where the cuckoo sings perfect fourths instead of the usual major third or minor third). Less commonly imitated are the great tit (Anton Bruckner's ""Fourth Symphony""), the goldfinch (Vivaldi), linnet (Couperin, Haydn and Rachmaninov), robin (Peter Warlock), swallow (Dvorak and Tchaikovsky), wagtail (Benjamin Britten), and magpie (in a Mussorgsky song). Dvorak celebrated many other kinds of bird, including the stock dove, skylark, and house"
"The Birds (film) The Birds is a 1963 American horror-thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It focuses on a series of sudden, unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California over the course of a few days. The film stars Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren (in her screen debut), supported by Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette and Veronica Cartwright. The screenplay is by Evan Hunter, who was told by Hitchcock to develop new characters and a more elaborate plot while keeping du"
"in the drains."" The Early Bird (play) The Early Bird by Leo Butler was first produced at the Queen's Theatre in the Belfast Festival in Ireland in 2006 and was directed by Rachel O'Riordan. The play is deliberately left without a setting or much stage directions to reflect the mindset of the two characters Debbie and Jack whose daughter disappears. The dialogue moves between surreal hyper-reality and plain naturalism jumping between time. The title comes from the saying ""the early bird catches the worm"" which Debbie repeatedly told their daughter in the mornings before she went to school which was"
"signed the 28 January 1661 agreement that defined the sharers in the King's Company. In September 1662, he reportedly broke his leg while fencing onstage, during a performance of Sir John Suckling's play ""Aglaura."" He resumed stage work after his recovery, and played Prospero in Richard Rhodes's comedy ""Flora's Vagaries"" on 3 November 1663. Bird's son, Theophilus Bird the Younger, pursued his own acting career during the Restoration era. Theophilus Bird Theophilus Bird, or Bourne, (1608 – 1663) was a seventeenth-century English actor. Bird began his stage career in the Stuart era of English Renaissance theatre, and ended it in"
"play ""Pelopidas"" won a $1000 prize offered by the actor Edwin Forrest, but was never produced because Forrest found the play unsuitable to highlight his strengths as a performer. With Forrest's guidance, Bird wrote another play, ""The Gladiator"", which was produced in 1831. It was perfect to showcase Forrest's muscular acting style. It also went really well in the theatre. It was the first play to be performed so often in the author's lifetime. This launched Bird as a playwright. Bird and Forrest quickly became friends. Bird wrote several other plays for Forrest, some of them being ""Oralloossa, Son of"
"he became involved with the National Theatre Society and became involved in the founding of the Abbey Theatre, writing several of its early productions. His first play, ""Broken Soil"" (revised as The Fiddler's House) (1903) was performed by W. G. Fay's Irish National Dramatic Company. ""The Land"" (1905), was one of that theatre's first great public successes. He wrote another important play for the Abbey named ""Thomas Muskerry"" (1910). His earliest published poems appeared in ""The United Irishman"", a paper edited by Arthur Griffith. His first book, ""Wild Earth"" (1907) collected many of these poems and was dedicated to Æ."
"and Tadhg. Some events in the play were also changed in the film. The Field (play) The Field is a play written by John B. Keane, first performed in 1965. It tells the story of the hardened Irish farmer ""Bull"" McCabe and his love for the land he rents. The play debuted at Dublin's Olympia Theatre in 1965, with Ray McAnally as ""The Bull"" and Eamon Keane as ""The Bird"" O'Donnell. The play was published in 1966 by Mercier Press. A new version with some changes was produced in 1987. A film adaptation was released in 1990, directed by Jim"
"plot turning on a mother killing her child in order to take revenge on her husband. In a Aristophanes ""The Birds"", presented in 414 BCE, a Tereus appears in the form of a hoopoe. Two other characters mock Tereus' beak, and Tereus responds ""That's outrageous the way Sophocles treats me – Tereus! – in his tragedies."" A second hoopoe appears onstage and Tereus claims that this second hoopoe is the son of Phiocles' hoopoe, and that Tereus is the grandfather of this second hoopoe. Since Tereus has claimed to be Sophocles' character, the implication is that Philocles' character derived from"
"Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, first staged in 1904. In his 1911 novelisation ""Peter and Wendy"", Barrie referred to ""the Neverland"", and its many variations ""the Neverlands"", although the caption to one of Bedford's illustrations calls it ""The Never Never Land"". In the earliest drafts of Barrie's play, the island was called ""Peter's Never Never Never Land"", a name possibly influenced by ""the Never Never"", a contemporary term for outback Australia. In the 1928 published version of the script, the name was shortened to ""the Never Land"". Neverland has been featured prominently in subsequent works that either adapted Barrie's works"
"these terms seems to be inexhaustable. They can now be considered a , somewhat romantic or just pure pedantry on the author’s part. But it was a serious attempt to try to define quite subtle colourings."" Yarrell's ""Birds"" was mentioned in a well-known letter to ""The Times"" in 1913, when a Fellow of the Royal Society, the naturalist and paleontologist Richard Lydekker, wrote on 6 February that he had heard a cuckoo, explaining that though contrary to Yarrell's statement that records of the bird calling as early as March ""must be treated with suspicion, if not with incredulity"", it was"
"production in September 1970 with Lowe and Richard Briers in the Walls and Lynn roles. The BBC broadcast a radio version of the play on Christmas Day 1983, with Freddie Jones and Ian Lavender in the leads, and Joan Hickson, Margaret Tyzack and Phoebe Nicholls in the cast. A Cuckoo in the Nest A Cuckoo in the Nest is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the second in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls at the theatre between 1923 and 1933. Several of"
"The Birds II: Land's End The Birds II: Land's End is a 1994 American made-for-television horror film and a sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic ""The Birds"" (1963) starring Brad Johnson, Chelsea Field, James Naughton and Tippi Hedren in a minor role different from the one she played in the original Hitchcock film. The original music score was composed by Ron Ramin. ""The Birds II: Land's End"" premiered on Showtime on March 14, 1994. The plot of the sequel is very similar to the original. Biology teacher and Somali Civil War veteran, Ted, his wife, and children move to a summer"