![]() ![]() ![]() In Befriending the Commedia dell’Arte of Flaminio Scala: The Comic Scenarios, Schmitt sets out not only to illuminate the richness of Scala’s work within the context of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italian culture, but also to reclaim Scala as an “inventor” of the art within the specific Renaissance context of the word. According to Natalie Crohn Schmitt, the foundational issue lies in a misunderstanding of Scala’s role in preserving the scenarios. While the value of Scala’s collection as evidence of the tradition has never been questioned, the merits of the individual scenarios have been dismissed for a variety of reasons. Among these documents, only fifty were published during the height of the movement’s popularity, printed as a single collection in 1611 by Flaminio Scala. ![]() Yet, significantly, more than 800 extant scenarios attest to the structure, style, and vitality of the tradition that has been called the most important theatrical movement of early modern Europe. As any theater student can tell you, there are no play scripts. For all of the unique qualities that define the commedia dell’arte, one of its most distinguishing characteristics is something it lacks. ![]()
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![]() It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual. ![]() ![]() Indignation, Philip Roth’s twenty-ninth book, is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad - mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy.Īs the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father’s fear arises from love and pride. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. ![]() ![]() It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life’s unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. ![]() ![]() ![]() five basic laws of human stupidityġ: Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.Ģ: The probability that a person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. ![]() To arrive at this conclusion, we need to understand his 5 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity. The stupid person is the most dangerous type of person, and in groups far more powerful than the Mafia, the Military or Communism, Cipolla warned. In 1976, Carlo Cipolla, a professor of economic history, derived a social law, by which we can group people into four categories: The first he called “the helpless”, the second are “the intelligent”, the third are “the bandits”, and the last are “the stupid”. Today Cipolla’s law is often used to highlight the importance of critical thinking and careful decision making in order to counteract the potential effects of endemic ignorance in politics and corporations. ![]() Even though Carlo Cipolla originally formulated his principles in the form of an amusing letter to his friends, it soon gained wide attention among social theorists. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation, Cipolla’s Law of Stupidity states. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although not many people are 5-alpha-reductase hermaphrodites, many have struggled with a negotiation of identity. By situating this struggle within recognizable historic events, Eugenides enables the reader to identify with Cal and his struggle for identity and self-confidence. Instead of focusing on genetic differences, Eugenides depicts Cal as a third generation American from an immigrant family, struggling to define himself with respect to culture, gender, and sexuality. How does Eugenides make Cal's very specific condition universally relatable? As a character, Antigone is also a symbol of female power and rebellion, however, and works as a model/foil for Calliope's struggles. Much like Middlesex, Antigone contains themes of incest and monstrosity, since Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Oedipus' mother. What is the significance of Antigone within Middlesex?Ĭalliope and the Object perform Antigone as part of their English class. ![]() ![]() Dupin also makes a philosophical point regarding the failure of human mind to notice the obvious, which is a result of its tendency to believe that it can find the obvious in minute details. To prove his point, he emphasizes the ability to identify with the opponent and draws an analogy from a game of guessing in which one player is expected to make a correct guess about what the other player is thinking of. Unlike the chief police officer of the Paris Police Department, Dupin firmly believes that the purloined letter has never been concealed at all. Dupin's familiarity with logic, math and physics enables him to look at the matter at hand from an exceptionally distinct perspective. ![]() ![]() Contrary to being a typical example of detective fiction which usually involves an investigation to find out what is being kept hidden, "The Purloined Letter" is rather concerned with finding out what is being kept in plain sight. ![]() The Purloined Letter" is the third of the three Dupin stories that Edgar A. ![]() ![]() ![]() JJ’s return - and his plans to build a huge mansion overlooking Pinewood and woo Ava - not only unsettles their family, but stirs up the entire town. ![]() And Don, Sylvia’s unworthy but charming husband, just won’t stop hanging around. Ava’s mother, Sylvia, caters to and meddles with the lives of those around her, trying to fill the void left by her absent son. Her husband, Henry, has grown distant, frustrated by the demise of the furniture industry, which has outsourced to China and stripped the area of jobs. Ava is now married and desperate for a baby, though she can’t seem to carry one to term. ![]() But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he’s startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has. JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has been featured on national radio and television programs in America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. ![]() His “Riffin’ and Pontificatin’ ” Tour, a nationwide tour of high schools and colleges promoting reading through jazz, was captured in a 2003 Comcast documentary. He is the recipient of several awards for his work as a composer in musical theater including the Stephen Sondheim Award and the Richard Rodgers Foundation Horizon Award. He served as a tenor saxophone sideman for jazz legend Little Jimmy Scott. His April, 2007 National Geographic story entitled “Hip Hop Planet” is considered a respected treatise on African American music and culture.Īs a musician, he has written songs (music and lyrics) for Anita Baker, Grover Washington Jr., and Gary Burton, among others. His work has also appeared in Essence, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. ![]() James McBride is a former staff writer for The Washington Post, People Magazine, and The Boston Globe. He holds several honorary doctorates and is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He studied composition at The Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and received his Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York at age 22. James McBride is a native New Yorker and a graduate of New York City public schools. ![]() ![]() ![]() And in fact her household does break apart when her young nanny, or Ayah, is kidnapped. ``India is going to be broken.And what happens if they break it where our house is?'' asks narrator Lenny, the daughter (who turns eight in 1947) of an affluent Parsi family in Lahore. ![]() Pakistani Sidhwa's third novel (The Bride, 1983 The Crown Eaters, 1982)-written from the point of view of a young girl who's surrounded by the personal and political violence that accompanied the partitioning of India in 1947-manages to do justice to the complexity of racial, ethnic, and religious violence in the era and to evoke the passage from an affluent childhood to the ambiguities of experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His retirement leaves me with two terrible options: switch specialties and spend months retraining, or take an open position as Dr. It's just as easy to admire his sexy, grip-it-while-he's-ravishing-you hair and chiseled jaw from a healthy distance, preferably from the other end of the hallway.half-hidden behind a plant.Unfortunately, my plan crumbles when my trusty ol' boss decides to swap his white coat for a Hawaiian shirt. I try to avoid him and his temper at all costs. ![]() The scrub techs say he's cold-blooded, the nurses say he's too cocky for his own good, and the residents say he's the best surgeon in the world- really, just a swell guy -on the off chance he's within earshot. Russell has a bad reputation around our hospital. A full-length STANDALONE romantic comedy from USA TODAY bestselling author R.S. ![]() ![]() “We are fighting for writers’ economic survival and stability of our profession.” “This is not an ordinary negotiating cycle,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a member of the union’s negotiating team, in a video message to members a month ago. “On TV staffs, more writers are working at minimum regardless of experience, often for fewer weeks ….While series budgets have soared over the past decade, median writer-producer pay has fallen.” “The companies have used the transition to streaming to cut writer pay … worsening working conditions for series writers at all levels,” said a statement from the union. But the writers, many of whom can’t support themselves with writing alone, are suffering from reduced job opportunities and the loss of some sources of income due to an industry shift from traditional broadcast and cable programming to streaming services. Many of the media and tech companies producing shows that use the writers have seen drops in their stock price, prompting deep cost cutting, including layoffs. ![]() The talks come at a time both sides are feeling pain. ![]() With less than a day left before the deadline, the two sides appear far apart. Last month, members of the Writers Guild of America voted 98% in favor of going on strike if no new deal is reached before their current contract expires at 11:59 pm PDT Monday. The clock is ticking toward a costly strike that could shut down production on most television shows, pushing back the return of many programs now set for the fall. ![]() |