Orlando Furioso

These cultural memories become stable, reliant on the need for critics to enter productions with preconceived notions of what to expect when critiquing revivals of plays that have, by canonization, received mythic status. Yet the first actors who performed the famous roles written by Tennessee Williams did not have to compete with canonized interpretations. The original performances of Laurette Taylor’s Amanda, Marlon Brando’s Stanley, and Burl Ives’s Big Daddy were acts of creation, rather than…

Isabella D’Este: The Lady of the Italian Renaissance The regional courts in Italy during the Renaissance period of the mid-fourteenth to sixteenth centuries played a significant role in the nurturing, spreading and development of Renaissance ideas. “[T]he court [is] defined [as] the space inhabited by the prince, his consort, household, courtiers and officials;” The complex of court buildings usually encompassed a palace or castle where the ruler resided, surrounded by chapels,…

Context Shakespeare’s career began in roughly 1589, but his work from this time period was considered to be not at the level of his later work. During the beginning of Shakespeare’s career, Shakespeare mostly wrote history plays and comedies. Toward the middle of his career, when he wrote, “Much Ado About Nothing,” considered Shakespeare’s best comedy play, thus showing how Shakespeare was becoming a great play writer. “Much Ado About Nothing” was written in 1598, during the middle of…

Isaiah Lopez Carrie Perry English 104 12/12/2015 The Importance of “Noting” Noting denotes absence of something. In addition, the word sounds improvised and modest in this era. For this reason, there are high expectations a play that comprises of such a heading and interesting story behind the title. Conversely, the play and its title itself seem to have significant weight than the general perception and weight from a number of individuals. Consequently. William Shakespeare made two plays, which…

About Nothing is also borrowed. Critics have noted two possible inspirations for this comic play. One is Matteo Bandello’s Novelle, dealing with the love story of Sir Timbreo and his fiancée Fenicia Lionata and the other one is Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso on the romance of Ariodante and Ginevra. Since, the action is set in the city of Sicily, it also implies at the 16th century romance in Italy. The play is similar in themes to two other plays by Shakespeare – the romantic tragedy, Romeo…