...David Levine © 2004 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2004 Design sketches for Babylon Is Everywhere. Illustration: Michael Byrnes David Levine Babylon Is Everywhere A Preface A few prefatory words about the Court Masque, and why the most conservative art...

.... The bodily meets with the spiritual in thefigura and the From Saturnalia to medieval Zudi the ass is one of the main masque of the ass. Therefore, the mating of Bottom and the actors in processions, comic rituals, and holiday revels. In Queen of the Fairies, which culminates the night and forest...

... closely resembles something like a Ben Jonson court masque, for example, than the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Indeed, as with Jonson’s masques, what follows is not a conventional play “script,” but the written record of a performance event: an exhaustive document of the choreography...

..., but also strategies for providing the answer—not the multiple answers that Luscombe had in mind. Filewod analyzes the staging of Marc Lescarbot’s nautical masque The Theatre of Neptune in New France on the water at Port Royal in November 1606; pageants and similar public spectacles reenacting the Empire...

... .” within a theatrical field. ’There are three distinct An example of the reverse process in which phases ranging from festival drama to in- “the play” emerges from “playing” occurs in the stitutionalized theatre, from “doing” to “watching a Yoruba Masque Theatre in Nigeria. In the four- thing...

... The Argument of the Masque is to celebrate petrolia, also a Daughter of Liberty, a Goddess the Triumph of liberty in freeing her seven of Wealth daughters, chief among them petrolia, from The petroliades, her hand-maidens captivity under the Iraqi Tyrant. The Masque...

... play for this early English opera and returned its verse to us rather insensitively altered and reduced, remains undiscovered, although Elkanah Settle is suspected? But after Act I, there is Purcell's music,and for his audiences there were the masque-like...

.... will the elements to obey him, or a bitter ried over from Italian interludes and court• In his hand he is holding Harpia's disguise. renouncement of an Art capable of ly mythological pastoralle to the Stuart He cocks his head, drops a curtsy, smiles, recreating all of the world's history but Masque. awaiting...

... France, Paris, 1981 (paper). The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography by Arnold Aionson, VLII Research, Ann .%I-bor,1981 (cloth). The Jonsonian Masque by Stephen Orgel, Columbia University, New York, 1981 (paper) $8.50. COMING...

... Martha Swope 87 de France, Paris, 1981 (paper). The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography by Arnold Aionson, VLII Research, Ann .%I-bor,1981 (cloth). The Jonsonian Masque by Stephen Orgel, Columbia University, New York, 1981 (paper) $8.50...

... An Introduction to Jesuit Theatre by William H. McCabe, S.J., The In- journey outside of Poland as my own - stitute of Jesuit Sources, St. Louis, MO, 1983 (paper) $19.00. my attempt to articulate “Polish Milton’s Puritan Masque...

..., center of the opera, Acts I1 and 111, clearly simu- Wilson has also refunctioned the concept of the late the playfulness of an idyllic, pre-techno- masque, the form to which Joneswas devoted, to logical existence before the holocaust (Queen Vic- make it a modern allegory. Perhaps one can toria...

... our progression another way: by presenting three new plays by emerging theater artists. By theatrical standards they are young writers and directors: most are under forty. Each work is concerned with an idea or experience of transforma- tion. The CiNE collective’s antiwar masque Babylon...

..., authenticity, and even intimacy. I have in mind such scenes as the Easter walk in “Outside the City Gates” (part 1), where the populace of the city passes by; the scene in the Imperial Palace in act 1 of part 2, where affairs of state are debated between the Emperor and his Ministers; the Carnival Masque...

... (paper) $19.00. my attempt to articulate “Polish Milton’s Puritan Masque by Maryann Cale McGuire, University of sensibility.” I tried writing plays about Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 1984 (cloth) $20.00...

..., there was Percy MacKaye. Before there was the Pub- lic Theater or Shakespeare in the Park, there was MacKaye’s 1916 Caliban by the Yel- low Sands, an outdoor masque version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest produced with a company of 1,500 for nightly audiences of 20,000 at City College’s 138th Street audi...

..., there was Percy MacKaye. Before there was the Pub- lic Theater or Shakespeare in the Park, there was MacKaye’s 1916 Caliban by the Yel- low Sands, an outdoor masque version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest produced with a company of 1,500 for nightly audiences of 20,000 at City College’s 138th Street audi...

... be extremely well 37 received there! The Viennese still truly have a sense of the supertheatricality of the masque, of humor and especially of the grotesque. They are greatly theatrical and if the characters in Kraus’s work...

... manual-labor jobs. I got into Bucknell, despite audience. Commedia, because of the improvi- terrible grades and a pathetic 520 on my verbal sation on scenarios. Court masque, with its SAT. The theater department was small and I premise that this audience is special because it’s got to do what...

... intonation - you get more unity that way, more unity of style. As much as I liked the Wilson and the Greek plays ofSerban, I though ofhow BenJonson complained when he felt that Inigo Jones was taking over control of their masques - Bacon ca Lled them “toysfor princes’’ -where the actors...