Drury Lane

fascinating era of Romanticism emphasized the emotional and spiritual representation of the unattainable ideal. It was a very nostalgic grace of past ages and predilection for exotic themes. We all know that seeing is more important than hearing. Back then sound was extremely important and detailed realistic sets were not the norm. The orchestra seats which had up till then been the cheap seats became more valuable. The upper galleries were the cheapest. Audiences especially in the upper…

renamed Diana Ross and The Supremes, and Ross later replaced herself with Jean Terrell to pursue a solo career, in 1970(Cox). Wilson was left the only original member of the group after that. “Finally in 1977, after a farewell concert at London's Drury Lane Theater, The Supremes officially disbanded and Mary Wilson began her solo career”( Mary Wilson Biography.com). They were entered in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame in 1988(Diana Ross and The Supremes Bio). The rock and roll hall of fame museum…

decay of existence. Moreover, the poem is structured as a discovery of the truths of the female body, beginning with an almost ideal woman and proceeding through a disassembled mechanization from head to toe of Corinna. She begins as the “Pride of Drury Lane / For whom no Shepherd sighs in vain” (Swift 1), accentuating her attractiveness and availability to men from the beginning. As she proceeds to remove her “artificial Hair” and “Crystal Eye” (Swift 10-11) are moving down her body to the…

The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre. The play starts with Lady Sneerwell who is a wealthy young widow in her London home. Snake is a man who does a dirty work for Lady Sneerwell that is spread rumors about life persons. He tells her on the status of a rumor he is showing about Lady Brittle and Captain Boastall, the rumor will reach Mrs. Clackit, a formidable scandal monger who has caused numerous breakups and…

The Plague Cross. Samuel Pepys was a naval administrator and Member of Parliament who kept a journal and diary on his personal experiences throughout the Renaissance. In one entry in his diary he claims, “This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and “Lord have mercy upon us” writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.” (June 7th 1665). This statement proves…

On the Great River Shakespeare Festival website, it reads, “Teenagers make bad choices. It was true in Verona in the 1400s; it is true today. For more than 400 hundred years we’ve been telling this story, and we don’t appear to have any desire to stop.” Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, where there is a violent feud between the Montague and Capulet families. In the prologue, the Chorus foreshadows the plot of the play. (“Two households, both alike in dignity…What here shall miss, our toil…