10 résultats pour "lovers"
- MARIAS LOVERS
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MUSIC LOVERS KEN RUSSELL
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- MUSIC LOVERS ou LA SYMPHONIE PATHÉTIQUE
- AMANTS ET FILS [Sons and Lovers]. David Herbert Lawrence (résumé & analyse)
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Casablanca (motion picture)
Casablanca (motion picture), popular drama about two star-crossed lovers in occupied French Morocco during World War II (1939-1945).
Trivia The film’s producers couldn’t afford a real plane in the background at the airport. Instead, they used a small cardboard cutout, with midgets portraying the crewpreparing the plane for takeoff.Studio head Jack Warner wanted actor George Raft to play Rick, a part that helped Humphrey Bogart break out of his typecast as a gangster. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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West Side StoryWest Side Story, motion-picture musical about star-crossed lovers from different cultures in New York City, based on the 1957 stage play by Arthur Laurents andJerome Robbins, which was inspired by Romeo and Juliet (1595?
Trivia The actors in the rival gangs were instructed to play pranks on each other off the set to keep tensions high. Quote Riff (singing): “When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way!” Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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From Bulfinch's Mythology: Pyramus and Thisbe - anthology.
In Mickle's translation of the 'Lusiad' occurs the following allusion to the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, and the metamorphosis of the mulberries. The poet isdescribing the Island of Love: '… here each gift of Pomona's hand bestows In cultured garden, free uncultured flows,The flavour sweeter and the hue more fairThan e'er was fostered by the hand of care.The cherry here in shining crimson glows,And stained with lovers' blood, in pendent rows,The mulberries o'erload the bending boughs.' If...
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Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet - anthology.
Take all myself. ROMEO. I take thee at thy word.Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized.Henceforth I never will be Romeo. JULIET. What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,So stumblest on my counsel? ROMEO. By a nameI know not how to tell thee who I am.My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,Because it is an enemy to thee.Had I it written, I would tear the word. JULIET. My ears have yet not drunk a hundred wordsOf thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.Art thou not Romeo, and a...
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From Bulfinch's Mythology: Meleager and Atalanta - anthology.
Althea, when the deed was done, laid violent hands upon herself. The sisters of Meleager mourned their brother with uncontrollable grief; till Diana, pitying thesorrows of the house that once had aroused her anger, turned them into birds. Atalanta The innocent cause of so much sorrow was a maiden whose face you might truly say was boyish for a girl, yet too girlish for a boy. Her fortune had been told, and itwas to this effect: 'Atalanta, do not marry; marriage will be your ruin.' Terrified...
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Asian Theater
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INTRODUCTION
Asian Theater, live performance, featuring actors or puppets, native to Asia, a continent with more than 2 billion people of many nations and cultures.
III THEATER IN EAST ASIA Theater in East Asia includes the traditions of China, Japan, and Korea. Most Chinese theater is urban, secular (nonreligious) entertainment, influenced by the ethics of Confucianism. However, a belief in spirits influences rituals performed by ethnic minorities in China, and Buddhism dominates traditional Tibetan performance. Japanesedramatic forms combine native shamanistic performance, secular entertainment, and cultural or religious influences from China and Kore...