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...“The legislation didn’t really end Disney’s special advantages,” said Richard Foglesong, a historian and author of Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando....
...“Fresh from the success of your Richard III.” The two actors suddenly snap to attention. I introduce them to the playmaker, whose frown deepens. “How comes it you are cast a player here?”...
...But Goebel suggests that experiments such as the RSC’s Dream and one of the Dramazon Prime shows — Richard Siegal’s ballet Two for the Show — offer food for thought....
...Marlowe’s Faustus has consumed all knowledge and signs his soul away to stretch the boundaries of his own mortality....
...Men are collaborators or competitors (O’Toole, Anthony Smith, Derek Marlowe, Piers Paul Read); women are muses (Dunjohn on her pedestal, landlady Val Lorraine as surrogate mother.)...
...And I, mentally somewhere in between, went to a film called Marlowe, for reviewing which, in a now-departed magazine called Monthly Film Bulletin, I was paid my first professional shilling....
...The basis for Crimp’s libretto is Marlowe’s Edward II, also the subject of a new opera in Berlin last year....
...The first performances of Shakespeare’s Hamlet — with Richard Burbage in the lead role — and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus are thought to have taken place at The Theatre in Hackney....
...But whereas Marlowe’s DoctorFaustus dices with damnation, the confidence trickster trio in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist couldn’t give a hoot about their immortal souls — all the more impressive, as the very...
...There’s a running joke about a drowning man who hallucinates a near-rescue by President Richard Nixon....
...This is what remains of the Rose Playhouse, where Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe presented their work. The red lights out the stage and the pit where the groundlings stood....
...despite the dozens of candidates put forward as the works’ “real” author, from Ben Jonson to the Earl of Oxford and (even though he was a bit dead by the time many of the plays were created) Christopher Marlowe...
...For the title of his impressive and highly readable new study of Anglo-Islamic relations under Elizabeth I, Jerry Brotton has chosen to adapt the description in Shakespeare’s Richard II of “this sceptred...
...Lead roles are found in Shakespeare’s life for “Chris” Marlowe and “Phil” of Spain. (“King Phil,” he corrects someone; “ip”.)...
...In the 1978 remake, Robert Mitchum’s Marlowe is even seen playing out moves on a miniature board while on stake-out. Chandler, in turn, was friendly with James Bond creator Ian Fleming....
...His latest, The Black-Eyed Blonde, brings back to literary life Raymond Chandler’s classic private eye, Philip Marlowe. Banville will be in conversation with the FT’s books editor Lorien Kite....
...’s Hero and Leander, Richard Barnfield’s The Affectionate Shepherd and Michael Drayton’s The Legend of Piers Gaveston....
...We carry on talking and drinking: football, Keats, Richard Dawkins, Machiavelli, Henry VIII, conspiracy theories, the future of the planet....
...For example, in 1951 Miller took a song based on a passage from Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage and an Armenian wedding melody, backed it with a harpsichord playing boogie-woogie, and handed...
...Based in Marlowe, the group has benefited from hyper-growth of the mobile phone industry in the past decade....
...So whatever happened to the Richards and Roberts, the Michaels and Peters, the Simons, the Williams and the Anthonys?...
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