Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Apparently not in Italy, though there is much discussion of Padua. Venice and ducats. In Paris?--Bassanio reads. "Le Monde." Perhaps in America, where all the songs from Cabaret which delineate the scenes would be most appropriate. But it so, why are these people speaking in such silly Elizabethan English...
...That's right. And you told Carm about today, no more than 10 points today. Tops And yours front line are all members of the Elizabethan Society right...
...fallings, but lacks the air of nobility which should add extra bitterness to his fall. The same deficiency appears in Arthur Strimling's Kent; Strimling plays a servant, rather than a nobleman playing a servant. That complexity is crucial to the role of Kent, since in a class-conscious Elizabethan context, Kent's willingness to humble himself gives the most extreme proof of his devotion to Lear...
...greatest success at the box office, although 20 years ago he was almost certainly the highest-paid actor in the world. But for the better part of the '60s and '70s, the years of his romance with and marriages to Elizabeth Taylor-the Elizabethan years, as he later called them-he was one of the most celebrated men on the planet. Amplified by the resources of modern media, the lovemaking and the battles of Liz and Dick echoed across oceans. Many critics thought him the greatest Hamlet of the era, and he received seven Academy Award nominations...
...post-Elizabethan years he finally gave up the bottle, did a few good plays and movies, notably Equus, and many bad ones, such as The Klansman and The Wild Geese. "I've done the most unutterable rubbish, all because of money," he confessed a few years ago. "I didn't need "it. I've never needed money, not even as a child, though I came from a very poor family. But there have been times when the lure of the zeros was simply too great." It may have been those seductive zeros that reunited him with Taylor...