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...A sensational sale in Paris followed in 1865: the Marquess of Hertford outbid Baron James de Rothschild for “The Laughing Cavalier” (1624), the enigmatic portrait of a man half-smiling (the affectionate...
...The ubiquitous court jester, an added silent role, is the staging’s only minor irritation. With the drama stripped to its core, first-rate singers are needed to carry the performance....
...Reintroducing the Prince’s friend Benno — missing from Covent Garden’s lakeside since 1963 — allows feather-footed soloists such as James Hay to shine in jester-ish displays of technique, but the character...
...This carried its own problems: in 1573 the Inquisition charged Veronese with flooding a “Last Supper” with trivia: dogs, jesters and “men dressed in the German fashion”....
...The court jesters are doubling as the town criers....
...His path through corpse-strewn “visions of hell” leads him into the retinue of the “Winter Queen” — Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I....
...Immune to the conventional despot, we are susceptible to the insidious jester, smuggling bad ideas under cover of levity....
...From the very first scene, in which the bantering Jester is murdered, we stand hovering over the border between sensuality and brutality....
...Serious figure or court jester? What sort of prime minister would Boris Johnson be? In Birmingham, Johnson supporters are out in force....
...jester to James I)....
...“He’s a jester, he’s vulgar, and he’s always angry with others,” Mr Bruzzone says....
...It added that Fo “emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden”....
...Nurbison invades Edwinland with his army of sinister soldiers, and Edwin, royal adviser Jill and court jester Megan are forced to flee for their lives....
...James) often seem a little lost when called on to deliver what’s left of their lines....
...His role comes across as that of court jester, the guy who “sticks it to the man”, exposing the hypocrisy and pomposity of those in power....
...Umberto Giordano’s La cena delle beffe (The Jester’s Supper) has a plot better known from Alessandro Blasetti’s 1942 film (based on Sem Benelli’s 1909 play), which won controversial fame for featuring one...
...John Lydon, the movement’s totemic figure and jester-in-chief, will relish his forthcoming appearance at the British Library later this month....
...It’s all very well crusading to protect the environment, but only a fool would do so without a jesters’ motley of all-weather gear....
...But, when required, he could turn out, as a dorm-room jester, lustily bawdy verse for his college mates (a rich sample, Inventions of the March Hare, was assembled by Christopher Ricks in 1995)....
...Robert Mitchum and James Stewart died on successive days in 1997. Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni died on the exact same day (July 30 2007)....
...I actually did the speech about him at the New York Film Institute and I was seated at my friend James Cagney’s table and I have this picture and I am sitting between James Cagney and Fred Astaire....
...Veronese was summoned by the Inquisition that year, to explain why he had included a jester with a parrot, as well as “drunkards, German halberdiers, dwarfs and other lewd things” in a “Last Supper”....
...In 2002 James Macdonald invoked JFK’s hedonistic Washington on behalf of Welsh National Opera....
...Having conducted what St John-Stevas insisted was a thorough search, James Murdoch was appointed....
...The centrepiece of the collection is its longest essay, “The Genius of James Brown”, which supplies this haunted work with its principal monstrosity....
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