Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these abstractions up in an English country house, and arrange a match against Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is the young heroine's father (Edmund Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves are virtually burlesques: almost everything the old maid does smacks of melodrama, almost everything the old soak does smacks...
Tall and broad, with the heavy, prominent features and classical tastes of a Roman emperor, Rhodes also combined the characteristics of an Elizabethan freebooter, a financial tycoon, and a humorless, aoth-Century dictator. "I contend," he said, "that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race." He would lay his big hand on a map of Africa, printed with the colors of many nations, and cry: "I want to see it all red, all red!" He envisioned an Anglo-North American empire that...
...three longest: the 18-year Cavalier Parliament (1661-1679), the 13-year Long Parliament (1640-1653), the eleven-year Elizabethan Parliament...
...wouldn't be able to see or hear unless they were well in front. The idea was pretty startling, moreover, for people who can't see choice seats going to waste for the sake of antiquity. It would have been a little difficult, too, to seat an assortment of Elizabethan fops on stage, or perhaps that would have been carrying Elizabethanism...
...costumes for the present production are Elizabethan, but simple, unlike the gilt edged robes that marred an otherwise stylized "Tempest," or the even more plushy ones of Maurice Evans' "Macbeth...