"Honorificabilitudinitatibus Honorificabilitudinitatibus (""honōrificābilitūdinitātibus"" ) is the dative and ablative plural of the medieval Latin word ""honōrificābilitūdinitās"", which can be translated as ""the state of being able to achieve honours"". It is mentioned by the character Costard in Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare's ""Love's Labour's Lost"". As it appears only once in Shakespeare's works, it is a hapax legomenon in the Shakespeare canon. It is also the longest word in the English language featuring only alternating consonants and vowels. The word is spoken by the comic rustic Costard in Act V, Scene 1 of the play. It is used"
"play ""The Tempest"" by William Shakespeare. Growing up, a still young Caliban, who speaks in the third person, is discovered by the mutant Callisto and taken under her wing. Learning of his mutant tracking ability, Callisto uses Caliban to locate other disenfranchised mutants and organizes them into the Morlocks, a band of homeless, rejected mutants. The founding Morlocks consist of Caliban, Callisto, Masque, Plague, and Sunder. The Morlocks live in the sewers and abandoned subway tunnels running underneath New York City, and, like Caliban, most of them had grotesque appearances. Caliban senses the presence of nearby mutants and enters a"
"following lines in ""A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle"" (1922): Also referenced in George B. Shaw's play ""You Never Can Tell"" by the twins, Philip and Dolly. Douglas (play) Douglas is a blank verse tragedy by John Home. It was first performed in 1756 in Edinburgh. The play was a big success in both Scotland and England for decades, attracting many notable actors of the period, such as Edmund Kean, who made his debut in it. Peg Woffington played Lady Randolph, a part which found a later exponent in Sarah Siddons. The opening lines of the second act are"
"Drood The Mystery of Edwin Drood (or simply Drood) is a musical based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". It is written by Rupert Holmes, and was the first Broadway musical with multiple endings (determined by audience vote). Holmes received Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score. The musical won five Tony Awards out of eleven nominations, including Best Musical and Best Leading Actor. The musical debuted as part of the New York Shakespeare Festival in August 1985, and, following revision, transferred to Broadway, where it ran until May 1987. Two national tours"
"name by Ouida centred on the idle and pleasure-seeking European aristocracy. The two plays were staged within three weeks of each other – ""Moths"" at the Globe Theatre on 25 March 1882 and ""A Shadow Sceptre"" at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester, on 13 April. The production of ""Moths"" was prefaced by a virulent argument between Ouida and Hamilton conducted publicly in ""The Era"" concerning copyright theft and the right to adapt works. The dispute inadvertently benefited both novel and play. One reviewer of ""Moths"" declared that ""a more inartistic finale has seldom been put on the stage"", while another thought"
"Molière's ""The Would-Be Gentleman"" (1926) in a cast headed by Playfair and including Sydney Fairbrother, Miles Malleson and James Whale. Over the next three decades Goolden generally divided his theatrical career between Shakespeare and more recent classics, new plays – mostly ephemeral, and his perennial role of Mole in A A Milne's ""Toad of Toad Hall"", based on Kenneth Grahame's ""The Wind in the Willows"". His Shakespeare roles included Costard (""Love's Labours Lost"", 1932), Aguecheek (""Twelfth Night"", 1933), Quince (""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", 1938), Fool (""King Lear"", 1943), Young Gobbo (""The Merchant of Venice"", 1944), Roderigo (""Othello"", 1944), Polonius (""Hamlet"","
"The Mock Tempest The Mock Tempest, or the Enchanted Castle is a Restoration era stage play, a parody by Thomas Duffet; it premiered in 1674, and was first printed in 1675 by the bookseller William Cademan. In creating his farce, Duffet's target was not Shakespeare's famous play, but the adaptation of it that John Dryden and Sir William Davenant wrote in the 1660s. According to critic Michael West, ""There are frequent nautical metaphors, and 'more noyse and terrour than a Tempest at Sea'..."" The first Theatre Royal, Drury Lane burned down of 25 January 1672. Its occupant, the King's Company,"
"Noah's Flood"" (""Gwreans an Bys: the Creacon of the World""), written in Cornish with English stage directions, copied by William Jordan in 1611. The second play, ""Passio Domini"", represents the Temptation of Christ in the desert, and the events from the entry into Jerusalem to the Crucifixion, including the Passion. This goes on without interruption into the third play, ""Resurrectio Domini"", which gives an account of the Harrowing of Hell, the Resurrection, and the Ascension, with the Legend of St Veronica and Tiberius, the death of Pilate, the release of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus from prison, The Three Marys."
"mobster Charlie the Duck, who has arranged his daughter Pauline's engagement to Roscoe despite her preference for over-the-top amateur actor Alan Dangle. Even further complications are prompted by several letters, a very heavy trunk, several unlucky audience volunteers, an extremely elderly waiter and Francis' pursuit of his twin passions: Dolly, Charlie's feminist bookkeeper, and food. The play premiered at the National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre from 24 May 2011 (previews from 17 May) and continued until 19 September. Nicholas Hytner directed James Corden in the starring role of Francis Henshall, with associate director Cal McCrystal responsible for the physical comedy. The"
"Moll Davis Mary ""Moll"" Davis (also Davies or Davys; ca. 1648 – 1708) was a seventeenth-century entertainer and courtesan, singer, and actress who became one of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England. Davis was born around 1648 in Westminster and was said by Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, to be ""a bastard of Collonell Howard, my Lord Barkeshire"" – probably meaning Thomas Howard, third Earl of Berkshire, although her parentage has also been attributed to Robert's older brother Charles, the second Earl. During the early 1660s she was an actress in the 'Duke's Theatre Company' and boarded"
"tells Ram he needs 400.000 rupees to buy Nita free. He steals the money from the woman where he is living, but gives it to a man who begs him to give the money to him in order that he may then buy medicines for his son who is suffering from a serious illness. At the question in the quiz show, Ram calls this man because he is a teacher. He doesn’t know the answer, but Ram nevertheless answers it right. It is, ""In which of the plays of Shakespeare is one of the characters named ‘Costard’?"" The answer is"
"Besides the Middle English drama, there are three surviving plays in Cornish known as the Ordinalia. These biblical plays differ widely in content. Most contain episodes such as the ""Fall of Lucifer"", the ""Creation and Fall of Man"", ""Cain and Abel"", ""Noah and the Flood"", ""Abraham and Isaac"", the ""Nativity"", the ""Raising of Lazarus"", the ""Passion"", and the ""Resurrection"". Other pageants included the story of ""Moses"", the ""Procession of the Prophets"", ""Christ's Baptism"", the ""Temptation in the Wilderness"", and the ""Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin"". In given cycles, the plays came to be sponsored by the newly emerging Medieval"
"Douglas (play) Douglas is a blank verse tragedy by John Home. It was first performed in 1756 in Edinburgh. The play was a big success in both Scotland and England for decades, attracting many notable actors of the period, such as Edmund Kean, who made his debut in it. Peg Woffington played Lady Randolph, a part which found a later exponent in Sarah Siddons. The opening lines of the second act are probably the best known: Lady Randolph opens the play mourning for her brother. Shortly thereafter, she discloses to her maid that she was married to the son of"
"Droll A droll is a short comical sketch of a type that originated during the Puritan Interregnum in England. With the closure of the theatres, actors were left without any way of plying their art. Borrowing scenes from well-known plays of the Elizabethan theatre, they added dancing and other entertainments and performed these, sometimes illegally, to make money. Along with the popularity of the source play, material for drolls was generally chosen for physical humor or for wit. Francis Kirkman's ""The Wits, or Sport Upon Sport"", 1662, is a collection of twenty-seven drolls. Three are adapted from Shakespeare: ""Bottom the"
"Dip in the Pool ""Dip in the Pool"" is a macabre short story by British writer Roald Dahl, originally published in the 19 January 1952 edition of ""The New Yorker"". It later appeared in the collection ""Someone Like You"" (1953). On a British cruise ship, there is a betting pool wherein passengers try to correctly guess the number of miles the ship will travel that day, within ten miles above (""high field"") or below (""low field"") the captain's own guess. On a stormy day, a passenger named William Botibol bids two hundred pounds on ""low field"", the inclement weather having"
"for her play ""This Wide Night"". Chloe Moss Chloë Moss (born 1976 in Liverpool) is an English playwright. Moss grew up in Liverpool and attended Manchester Metropolitan University, where she studied film. She joined the Royal Court's Young Writers programme and wrote her first professional play, ""A Day In Dull Armour"". She soon became a writer-in-residence at the Bush and is under commission to the Manchester Royal Exchange, the Royal Court, Paines Plough, Liverpool Everyman and Clean Break (theatre company). Other work includes ""How Love is Spelt"", which opened at the Bush Theatre London in November 2004 and Off-Broadway in"
"Chloe Moss Chloë Moss (born 1976 in Liverpool) is an English playwright. Moss grew up in Liverpool and attended Manchester Metropolitan University, where she studied film. She joined the Royal Court's Young Writers programme and wrote her first professional play, ""A Day In Dull Armour"". She soon became a writer-in-residence at the Bush and is under commission to the Manchester Royal Exchange, the Royal Court, Paines Plough, Liverpool Everyman and Clean Break (theatre company). Other work includes ""How Love is Spelt"", which opened at the Bush Theatre London in November 2004 and Off-Broadway in August 2005; ""Christmas Is Miles Away"""
"directed by Matthew Gould. The Roundabout Theatre Company presented a Broadway revival at Studio 54, which opened in November 2012. The production was directed by Scott Ellis, and starred Chita Rivera as Puffer, Stephanie J. Block as Drood, Will Chase as Jasper, Jim Norton as the Chairman and Gregg Edelmann as Crisparkle. Further reading Drood The Mystery of Edwin Drood (or simply Drood) is a musical based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel ""The Mystery of Edwin Drood"". It is written by Rupert Holmes, and was the first Broadway musical with multiple endings (determined by audience vote). Holmes received Tony"
"Movement, Apollo Calliope); David Bintley (Arthur Morgan, Beauty and the Beast Belle, Carmina burana Fortuna, Sylvia Pas de deux, Scottish Dances,The Nutcracker Sweeties Sugar Rum Cherry, The Shakespeare Suite Juliet, The Seasons 'Autumn', Hobson's Choice Maggie Hobson, The Sons of Horus Isis, Concert Fantasy, Les Petit Riens, Orpheus Suite - Eurydice); John Cranko (Broulliards); Kenneth MacMillan (Romeo and Juliet Juliet, Elite Syncopations - White Girl); Vaslav Nijinski (Rite of Spring - The Chosen Maiden), and Myrtha, Giselle (Giselle), Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Swanhilda (Coppelia), Odette /Odile (Swan Lake), Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Stanton Welch (Powder) and Twyla Tharp In"
"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"
"of this Play was to draw the Town from the Duke's Theatre, who for a considerable amount of time had frequented that admirable reviv'd comedy called ""The Tempest""."" Duffet's ""Mock Tempest"" is set not in any exotic location, but securely in the London familiar to its audience – specifically the lower reaches of contemporaneous London society. The storm that opens the play, in both the Shakespeare and Dryden/Davenant versions, is replaced in Duffet's by a riot in a brothel. Mother Stephania, a bawd, leads her cohort of pimps, prostitutes, and aristocratic customers in a valiant but vain effort to drive"
"Pixérécourt whose ""La Femme à deux maris"" was very popular. The first English play to be called a melodrama or 'melodrame' was ""A Tale of Mystery"" (1802) by Thomas Holcroft. This was an example of the Gothic genre, a previous theatrical example of which was ""The Castle Spectre"" (1797) by Matthew Gregory Lewis. Other Gothic melodramas include ""The Miller and his Men"" (1813) by Isaac Pocock, ""The Woodsman's Hut"" (1814) by Samuel Arnold and ""The Broken Sword"" (1816) by William Dimond. Supplanting the Gothic, the next popular subgenre was the nautical melodrama, pioneered by Douglas Jerrold in his ""Black-Eyed Susan"""
"""The Tempest"" has more music than any other Shakespeare play, and has proved more popular as a subject for composers than most of Shakespeare's plays. Scholar Julie Sanders ascribes this to the ""perceived 'musicality' or lyricism"" of the play. Two settings of songs from ""The Tempest"" which may have been used in performances during Shakespeare's lifetime have survived. These are ""Full Fathom Five"" and ""Where The Bee Sucks There Suck I"" in the 1659 publication ""Cheerful Ayres or Ballads"", in which they are attributed to Robert Johnson, who regularly composed for the King's Men. It has been common throughout the"
"famous of which are ""A Doll's House"" (1879), ""Ghosts"" (1881), ""The Wild Duck"" (1884), and ""Hedda Gabler"" (1890). In addition, his works ""Rosmersholm"" (1886) and ""When We Dead Awaken"" (1899) evoke a sense of mysterious forces at work in human destiny, which was to be a major theme of symbolism and the so-called ""Theatre of the Absurd"". After Ibsen, British theatre experienced revitalization with the work of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Galsworthy, William Butler Yeats, and Harley Granville Barker. Unlike most of the gloomy and intensely serious work of their contemporaries, Shaw and Wilde wrote primarily in the"
"Court Theatre and Albery Theatre); ""The Graduate"", directed by Terry Johnson (Gielgud Theatre); ""Dr Dolittle"" (Hammersmith Apollo) and ""Antony and Cleopatra"" (Royal Shakespeare Company), both directed by Steven Pimlott; ""Orpheus Descending"" ( Donmar Warehouse) and ""The Lady In the Van"" (Queen's Theatre), both directed by Nicholas Hytner; The Cherry Orchard directed by Trevor Nunn (Royal National Theatre); ""Juno and the Paycock ""directed by John Crowley (Donmar Warehouse ); ""Art"" (Wyndham's Theatre and Whitehall Theatres),""The Unexpected Man"" (Royal Shakespeare Company, Duchess Theatre) and ""The Winter’s Tale"" (Royal Shakespeare Company at Roundhouse (venue)) all directed by Matthew Warchus; ""Blast!"" (Apollo, Hammersmith); ""Cyberjam"""
"calling Elspeth is revealed; he wants to end Molly’s suffering and needs Elspeth, the non-believer, to do it. When she rejects him, David is forced to explore his personal ethics. The past reaches into the present as the older David is confronted by the memories of the younger Elspeth and younger Molly, bringing him to his final decision. The play explores the concepts we cling to – academia, religion, love – in order to define the world and our own place in it, ultimately presenting a world without clear answers save those we make for ourselves. ""Molly's Shoes"" is a"
"The Pool (play) The Pool (later subtitled ""City of Culture?"") is a play written by and starring James Brough and Helen Elizabeth. The plot follows David (Brough), a Londoner who finds himself stranded in Liverpool, where he meets Tina (Elizabeth). David persuades Tina to take the day off work and the two spend a day in the city together. The play is a mixture of verse and prose. Brough and Elizabeth conceived it while appearing at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe. They returned to perform it at The Gilded Balloon in 2006. It has also been performed at the Arts Theatre"
"serious student of comedy and history, and was interested in Sigmund Freud and Henri Bergson's analysis of humour. Occasionally, he appeared in dramatic roles, including Malvolio in William Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"" on stage in Liverpool in 1971; on television in the cameo role of 'The Tollmaster' in the 1987 ""Doctor Who"" story ""Delta and the Bannermen""; as Yorick (in silent flashback) in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"" in 1996; and as Mr. Mouse in the 1999 television movie adaptation of ""Alice in Wonderland"". Dodd was renowned for the length of his performances, and during the 1960s he earned"
"Charis"", Jonson's most extended effort at love poetry; various religious pieces; encomiastic poems including the poem to Shakespeare and a sonnet on Mary Wroth; the ""Execration against Vulcan"" and others. The 1640 volume also contains three elegies which have often been ascribed to Donne (one of them appeared in Donne's posthumous collected poems). There are many legends about Jonson's rivalry with Shakespeare, some of which may be true. Drummond reports that during their conversation, Jonson scoffed at two apparent absurdities in Shakespeare's plays: a nonsensical line in ""Julius Caesar"", and the setting of ""The Winter's Tale"" on the non-existent seacoast"
"Luv (play) Luv is a play by Murray Schisgal. A mix of absurdist humor and traditional Broadway comedy in the Neil Simon vein, ""Luv"" concerns two college friends - misfit Harry and materialistic Milt - who are reunited when the latter stops the former from jumping off a bridge, the play's setting. Each discovers the other is equally miserable as they share hard-luck stories. Milt sees in Harry an answer to his primary problem - his wife Ellen, who he tries to foist on his old pal so he can run off with his mistress. After twenty-eight previews, the Broadway"
"Minchin also plays the role of Tom in the contemporary family drama ""Two Fists, One Heart"", released 19 March 2009. He also wrote the song ""Drowned"" for the film's soundtrack. He co-wrote ""Matilda the Musical""—an Olivier Award-winning musical version of Roald Dahl's novel ""Matilda""—with Dennis Kelly and the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is produced by the RSC. It showed at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, running from 9 November 2010 to 30 January 2011, and it began its West End run at the Cambridge Theatre on 25 October 2011 to great critical acclaim. In 2013, ""Matilda"" opened on Broadway at"
"Doll Tearsheet and Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly. The script contains text from five of Shakespeare's plays; primarily ""Henry IV, Part 1"" and ""Henry IV, Part 2"", but also ""Richard II"" and ""Henry V"", as well as some dialogue from ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"". Ralph Richardson's narration is taken from the works of chronicler Raphael Holinshed. Welles had previously produced a Broadway stage adaptation of nine Shakespeare plays called ""Five Kings"" in 1939. In 1960, he revived this project in Ireland as ""Chimes at Midnight"", which was his final on-stage performance. Neither of these plays were successful, but Welles"
"Drinkwater Meadows Drinkwater Meadows (1799 – 12 June 1869) was an English actor. Meadows was a native of Yorkshire, or, according to another account, of Wales, born in 1799, joined a theatrical company established in Kendal, and played in various towns in Westmoreland and Yorkshire. Subsequently he became member of a second company, playing in Lincoln, Leicester, Peterborough, and Birmingham, at which last named town he was seen and engaged by Charlton, the manager of the Bath Theatre. Meadows made his first appearance at Bath on 4 November 1817 as Fogrum, Liston's part, in Morton's musical drama ""The Slave."" He"