"Salad Days (musical) Salad Days is a musical with music by Julian Slade and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade. The musical was initially performed in 1954 in the UK in Bristol and then in the West End, where it ran for 2,283 performances. Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds had been working together on writing musicals since 1952, writing the book, music and lyrics. Reynolds was also an actress. They wrote ""Salad Days"" as a ""summer musical for the Bristol Old Vic's resident company."" The title is taken from William Shakespeare's ""Antony and Cleopatra"": ""My salad days, When I"
"in which Cleopatra is regretting her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar she says: ...My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood... The phrase became popular only from the middle of the 19th century, coming to mean “a period of youthful inexperience or indiscretion."" The metaphor comes from Cleopatra's use of the word 'green' — presumably meaning someone youthful, inexperienced, or immature. Her references to ""green"" and ""cold"" both suggest qualities of salads. Fowler's ""Dictionary of Modern English Usage"" summarizes several other possible meanings of the metaphor: Whether the point is that youth, like salad, is"
"a British musical with music by Julian Slade and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade. It premiered in the UK at the Theatre Royal, Bristol, in June 1954, and transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London on 5 August 1954. One of its songs, ""The Time of My Life"", includes the lyrics, ""We're young and we're green as the leaf on the tree / For these are our salad days."" In the 1987 Joel and Ethan Coen film ""Raising Arizona"", Nicolas Cage as H.I. “Hi” McDunnough uses the expression twice in the first few minutes of the film. Speaking"
"phrase ""salad days"", meaning a ""time of youthful inexperience"" (based on the notion of ""green""), is first recorded by Shakespeare in 1606, while the use of salad bar, referring to a buffet-style serving of salad ingredients, first appeared in American English in 1976. The Romans and ancient Greeks ate mixed greens with dressing, a type of mixed salad. Salads, including layered and dressed salads, have been popular in Europe since the Greek and Roman imperial expansions. In his 1699 book, ""Acetaria: A Discourse on Sallets"", John Evelyn attempted with little success to encourage his fellow Britons to eat fresh salad"
"The Weeding of Covent Garden The Weeding of the Covent Garden, or the Middlesex Justice of Peace, alternatively titled The Covent Garden Weeded, is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Richard Brome that was first published in 1659. The play is a noteworthy satire on the emerging ethos of Capitalism as reflected in real estate and urban development in the early modern city. The precise dates of authorship and first performance of the play are not known with certainty; but it must have originated c. 1632, when the development of Covent Garden was a public controversy. The"
"by Shakespeare. However, Capell's conclusion was only supported by mostly German scholars. In recent years, professional Shakespeare scholars have increasingly reviewed the work with a new eye, and have concluded that some passages are as sophisticated as any of Shakespeare's early histories, especially ""King John"" and the ""Henry VI"" plays. In addition, passages in the play are direct quotes from Shakespeare's sonnets, most notably the line ""lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds"" (sonnet 94) and the phrase ""scarlet ornaments"", used in sonnet 142. Stylistic analysis has also produced evidence that at least some scenes were written by Shakespeare."
"before. ""Every Man Out of His Humour"" includes several references to Shakespeare and his contemporaneous works: a mention of Justice Silence from ""Henry IV, Part 2""—""this is a kinsman to Justice Silence"" (V,ii) and two allusions to ""Julius Caesar"", which help to date that play to 1599. ""Et tu, Brute"" occurs in V,iv of ""Every Man Out;"" in III,i appears ""reason long since is fled to animals,"" a paraphrase of Shakespeare's line ""O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts"" in ""Julius Caesar,"" III,ii,104. Paul's walk Every Man out of His Humour Every Man out of His Humour is a"
"was in Shakespeare's day almost always played as a gamble or ""set"", hence the origin of the scoring call ""game and set"". This casts a new light on the typically Shakespearean resonance of the words in line 1, ""set me light"" (bet against me at scornful odds) and line 6, ""set down"". Fred Blick has also shown that after sonnet 88 the speaker of the sonnets becomes more critical of the addressee and less subservient to him. Sonnet 126, at the end of the Fair Youth sequence, finally condemns to mortality the ""lovely boy"" as a mere human, no more"
"raw, or that salad is highly flavoured and youth loves high flavours, or that innocent herbs are youth's food as milk is babes' and meat is men's, few of those who use the phrase could perhaps tell us; if so, it is fitter for parrots' than for human speech. Queen Elizabeth II during her Silver Jubilee Royal Address, referring to her vow to God and her people when she made her 21st birthday broadcast: ""Although that vow was made in my ""salad days"", when I was green in judgment, I do not regret nor retract one word of it."" The"
"in its fairness excels. The final couplet about ""distilled flowers"" refers to the extraction of perfume from petals, in which the visible ""show"" of the flowers disappears, but their ""essence"" remains. The same distillatory trope recurs in Sonnet 54, Sonnet 74 and Sonnet 119. The reference is probably to the Youth's ""seed"" - his capacity to prolong his ""essence"" by producing children, but it is also an example of Shakespeare's play on the question of what is transient and what eternal in the material world. Sonnet 5 Sonnet 5 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and"
"Sonnet 15 Sonnet 15 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It forms a diptych with Sonnet 16, as Sonnet 16 starts with ""But..."", and is thus fully part of the procreation sonnets, even though it does not contain an encouragement to procreate. The sonnet is within the Fair Youth sequence. Also known as ""When I consider every thing that grows,"" Sonnet 15 is one of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare's acclaimed 154 sonnets. It is a contained within the Fair Youth sequence, considered traditionally to be from sonnet 1-126 ""which recount[s]"
"garden. The play derives from a real court case. In June 1613, a man named John Lane (1590-1640), aged 23, accused Susanna of adultery with a Rafe Smith at the house of John Palmer. He claimed she had caught ""the running of the raynes [kidneys]"", a term used for gonorrhea, from Smith. Smith was a 35-year-old haberdasher, and the nephew of Shakespeare's close friend Hamnet Sadler. On 15 July the Halls brought suit for slander against Lane in the Consistory Court at Worcester. Robert Whatcott, who three years later witnessed Shakespeare's will, testified for the Halls, but Lane failed to"
"""beautified with our feathers"") offensive (Sonnets 30, 112). Trusting the early 'biographical' sources John Aubrey and Nicholas Rowe, Sams re-assessed Shakespeare's early and 'missing' years, and argued through detailed textual analysis that Shakespeare began writing plays from the mid-1580s, in a style not now recognisably Shakespearean. In full critical editions of the two plays, he defended the attributions of the anonymous ""Edmund Ironside"" and ""Edward III"" to Shakespeare. The so-called 'Source Plays' and 'Derivative Plays' (""The Taming of a Shrew"", ""The Troublesome Reign of King John"", etc.), and the so-called 'Bad Quartos', are (printers' errors aside) his own first versions"
"slang it gets shortened, hence ""green' room"". This information came from comedian and dancer Max Wall. It should be noted, however, that Rhyming Slang can be traced only as early as the 1840s, whereas the phrase ""green room"" predates this by several centuries, making such an etymology unlikely. Green is also thought to be a calming and soothing colour. In Shakespeare's day, the actors waited in a ""tiring house"" probably because actors were attired (put on or changed costumes) in this space. Here it is mentioned by Peter Quince as he plans for his acting troupe to rehearse in the"
"wrapt in a Players hyde"", alludes to Shakespeare's ""Henry VI, Part 3"", which contains the line ""O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide"". (I, iv, 137) Scholars are not agreed as to what Greene meant by his cryptic comments or what motivated them. Greene complains of an actor who thinks he can write as well as university-educated playwrights, he alludes to a line in Shakespeare's ""Henry VI, Part 3"", and he uses the term ""Shake-scene,"" a term never used prior to ""Groatsworth"". Most scholars agree that Greene had Shakespeare in mind, who in 1592 would have been an ""upstart"""
"been championed by Stephen Greenblatt. Notorious for a life of dissipation and debauchery somewhat similar to Falstaff, he was among the first to mention Shakespeare in his work (in ""Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit""), suggesting to Greenblatt that the older writer may have influenced Shakespeare's characterisation. There are several works about Falstaff, inspired by Shakespeare's plays: All references to ""Henry IV, Part 1"", ""Henry IV, Part 2"", and ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"", unless otherwise specified, are taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library's ""Folger Digital Editions"" texts edited by Barbara Mowat, Paul Werstine, Michael Poston, and Rebecca Niles. Under their referencing"
"""Trippin On A Hole (In A Paper Heart)"" from their 1996 record ""Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop"" includes the lyric: ""so keep your bankroll lottery eat your salad day deathbed motorcade"" Brand New's song ""Waste"" from their 2017 record Science Fiction includes the lyric: ""You and I were stuck in the waste / Talking about our salad days / What a damn lie"" The Manhattan Transfer uses the phrase in their song, ""Zoo Blues"" which is featured on their 1987 album ""Brasil"". Salad days """"Salad days"""" is a Shakespearean idiomatic expression meaning a youthful time, accompanied by"
"case in which Shakespeare sues Shaw following a lecture Shaw had given earlier in the year in which he had said that Shakespeare was a ""narrow minded middle class man"" with ""no religion, no politics, no great concerns"". Shaw often participated in these skits, by lending costumes, or even writing dialogue for one entitled ""His Wild Oat"" (1926). The ghosts of Shakespeare and Shaw also appear in ""Back to G.B.S.; or A Midsummer Nightmare"" (1932), a fantasia set in the year 2156, when the two playwrights have become confused with each other. Another, ""Bernard Shaw Arrives: A Fantasy in One"
"alone, that of 1586-87, five different acting troupes visited Stratford. By 1592 Shakespeare was a player/playwright in London, and he had enough of a reputation for Robert Greene to denounce him in the posthumous ""Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance"" as ""an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his ""Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde"", supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey."" (The italicized line parodies"
"which ""one generation pushes another off the stage."" Reading ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" ""is like wandering in a grove by moonlight: the descriptions breathe a sweetness like odours thrown from beds of flowers."" Another earlier criticism of Shakespeare, that his writing was not ""moral"", was still alive in Hazlitt's day. Coleridge frequently emphasised the immorality of characters like Falstaff. To Hazlitt, this was entirely the wrong approach to take to morality in the medium of dramatic poetry, and he stops from time to time to comment on Shakespeare's morality. In considering ""Hamlet"", for example, he declares that the character of"
"(Sonnets 30, 112). Trusting the early 'biographical' sources John Aubrey and Nicholas Rowe, Sams re-assessed Shakespeare's early and 'missing' years, and argued through detailed textual analysis that Shakespeare began writing plays from the mid-1580s, in a style not now recognisably Shakespearean. The so-called 'Source Plays' and 'Derivative Plays' (""The Famous Victories of Henry V"", ""The Taming of a Shrew"", ""The Troublesome Reign of King John"", etc.), and the so-called 'Bad Quartos', are (printers' errors aside) his own first versions of famous later plays. As many of the Quarto title-pages proclaim, Shakespeare was an assiduous reviser of his own work, rewriting,"
"fashionable society and at Puritans, and for the unusual scene of two prostitutes fighting each other with swords (Act IV, scene i). Some critics have complained of the play's ""looseness of structure,"" even asserting that it ""has no main plot."" The Weeding of Covent Garden The Weeding of the Covent Garden, or the Middlesex Justice of Peace, alternatively titled The Covent Garden Weeded, is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Richard Brome that was first published in 1659. The play is a noteworthy satire on the emerging ethos of Capitalism as reflected in real estate and urban"
"line: ""In summer time, when leaves grow green."" Child describes the appeal of this ballad to be centered on the chance meeting with a King, which is also a recurring theme in tales of Robin Hood. King Edward, while hunting, espies a tanner riding a mare with a cowhide for a saddle. He tells his men to stay back and goes to ask directions to the town of Drayton Bassett. The tanner offers wrong directions, but Edward knows them to be wrong; then Edward invites the tanner to dine with him in Drayton Bassett. The tanner responds that he has"
"is not generally accepted as having been written by Shakespeare, but it is considered to be perhaps partially written by Shakespeare by a number of scholars, including Edward Capell, Eliot Slater, Eric Sams, Giorgio Melchiori, Brian Vickers, and others. The play, printed in 1596, contains lines that also appear in Shakespeare’s sonnets: ""Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds” occurs in sonnet 94 and ""scarlet ornaments” occurs in sonnet 142. The same scene of the play that contains those quotations, is a comic scene that features and spoofs a poet attempting to compose a love poem at the behest"
"2nd folio of plays by Shakespeare (1632) as ""An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, W.SHAKESPEARE"". Samuel Pepys, diary entry for 29 September, 1662: ""This day my oaths of drinking wine and going to plays are out, and so I do resolve to take a liberty to-day, and then to fall to them again. To the King's Theatre, where we saw """"Midsummer's Night's Dream"" [sic],"" which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome"
"Sonnet 126 Written in 1594, Sonnet 126 is one of 154 sonnets by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is the final member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet shows how Time and Nature coincide. O you, my lovely boy, who hold in your power Time's hour-glass and his sickle—you who wane as you grow older and in that show your friends withering as you yourself grow up: if Nature, sovereign mistress over chaos, as you go onwards will ever pluck you back, she keeps you to demonstrate her power to hold up time. Yet"
"have been blocked and squashed by the Church. ""A chapel was built in the midst/ Where I used to play on the green"" The ""green"" has special significance also as it mirrors the contrary poem in innocence ""The Echoing Green"" hence the reading of the ""green"" to represent previous, innocent freedom, as well as the more obvious ""play"". A more common, alternate reading – and one more in keeping with what is known about Blake, his education and politics, and the times in which he lived – is that the poem simply reflects his views that the Church was an"
"title of the play refers to three pivotal periods in the history of class struggle in Scotland: the clearing of the Scottish highlands to make way for grazing land, the subsequent use of this land by the wealthy for shooting, and its current exploitation in the oil market. These changes are identified as forming a recurrent pattern of abuse of the land and the exploitation of the people by outsiders and by wealthier locals. It was broadcast in the BBC's ""Play for Today"" series in 1974. He adapted the satirical morality play ""A Satire of the Three Estates"" (1540) by"
"(Lord Justice of Appeal, 1982–1991), and a sister. Julian and Sandy, the polari-speaking homosexual thespians of the radio show ""Round the Horne"", were named after Slade and fellow musical playwright Sandy Wilson. Julian Slade Julian Penkivil Slade (28 May 1930 – 17 June 2006) was an English writer from London of musical theatre, best known for the show ""Salad Days"", which he wrote in six weeks in 1954 and which became the UK's longest-running show of the 1950s, with over 2,288 performances. Born in London in 1930, he moved with his family in 1940 to Painswick, Gloucestershire, where he spent"
"entirely"" from Florio’s ""First Fruits""(1578). He also believes that Shakespeare became more proficient in reading the language as set out in Florio’s manuals, as evidenced by his increasing use of Florio and other Italian sources for writing the plays. In 1567 Oxford was admitted to Gray's Inn, one of the Inns of Court which Justice Shallow reminisces about in ""Henry IV, Part 2"". Sobran observes that the Sonnets ""abound not only in legal terms – more than 200 – but also in elaborate legal conceits."" These terms include: ""allege, auditor, defects, exchequer, forfeit, heirs, impeach, lease, moiety, recompense, render, sureties,"""
"Classical times. In one of his Epistles, the Roman poet Horace alludes to the Greek version of the fable when referring to the poet Celsus, who is advised not to borrow from others ‘lest, if it chance that the flock of birds should some time or other come to demand their feathers, he, like the daw stripped of his stolen colors, be exposed to ridicule.’ It was in this sense too that the young William Shakespeare was attacked by the elder playwright Robert Greene as ‘an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers’. When Jean de la Fontaine adapted the story"
"The Green Pastures The Green Pastures is a play written in 1930 by Marc Connelly adapted from ""Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun"" (1928), a collection of stories written by Roark Bradford. The play was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930. The play portrays episodes from the Old Testament as seen through the eyes of a young African-American child in the Depression-era South, who interprets ""The Bible"" in terms familiar to her. Following Bradford's lead, Connelly (a white man) set the biblical stories in New Orleans and in an all-black context. He diverged from Bradford's work,"
"1605; ""those that under hot ardent zeal would set whole realms on fire"" (Sc.7.32-33). In the context of the play, the line is referring to religious zeal, but some scholars feel it is a subtle reference to the events of November. The play may also have been influenced by a pamphlet published in June 1605, ""Two Unnatural and Bloody Murders"", which served as the primary source for Thomas Middleton's ""A Yorkshire Tragedy"". This would narrow the possible range of dates to sometime between November 1605 and August 1608. Furthermore, MacDonald P. Jackson's rare-word test found the conjectured Shakespearean parts of"