10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COTHURNI»
Discover the use of
cothurni in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cothurni and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shakespeare's Play of a Midsummer Night's Dream: With ...
Second dress: Green chiton,* ornamented with tufts of hair — Phrygian cap —
lpopard skin on shoulder — russet cothurni.f Third dress: White chiton,
embroidered with purple pallium or himation,^ richly embroidered with gold,
fastened on ...
William Shakespeare, 1863
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Shakspeare's Play of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Arranged for ...
First dress': White linen chiton, embroidered with red pallium, richly embroidered
with gold—fleshings and cothurni. EGEUS.—-First dress: White chiton—brown
pallium, trimmed with silver—fieshings and black Cothurni. Second dress: Green
...
William Shakespeare, Laura Keene, 1859
The principals wore cothurni and the largest masks. The chorus wore only masks,
and the supplicants had meager masks. Guthrie felt that he was being true to the
spirit of Greek tragedy because it exaggerates distinctions between men.
Susan Valeria Harris Smith, 1984
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Shakespeare's Play of a Midsummer Nights Dream: Arranged for ...
First dress : White linen chiton, embroidered with red pallium, richly embroidered
with gold — fleshings and cothurni. EGEUS. — First dress: White chiton — brown
pallium, trimmed with silver — fleshings and black cothurni. Second dress ...
William Shakespeare, 1868
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Figural Conquistadors: Rewriting the New World's Discovery ...
Yo ya había perdido la costumbre de ser soldado español (tal vez, incluso de ser
español) y me bamboleaba un poco como si entrase en zancos en el salón
donde se me homenajeaba.61 [Boots are like cothurni, those wooden cothurni
that ...
The heel, which was unknown in Antiquity, is understandable here because of
Salammbo's association with a goddess. It is reminiscent of the Greek theater's
high-soled cothurni reserved for actors playing heroes and Gods. To seize the
veil ...
Marie-Josèphe Bossan, 2012
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Players Magazine: The National Journal of Educational ...
When this is completely dried, the cothurni are ready to be painted. Depending
on the design of the finished cothurni, almost any paint can be used. A spray
paint, either matte or gloss finish, is recommended because of its ease of
application.
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Cicero De Finibus Bonorum Et Malorum:
Ut enim opportunitas illa, sic haec de quibus 46 dixi non fiunt temporis
productione maiora, ob eamque causam Stoicis non videtur optabilior nec magis
expetenda beata vita si sit longa quam si 30 brevis, utunturque simili: ut, si
cothurni laus ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, L. D. Reynolds, 1998
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The works of James Harris esq., with an account of his life ...
... sit longa, quam si brevis : utunturque quae proficiscuntur a virtute, Busceptione
simili, ut, si cothurni laus ilia est ad pedem prima, non perfectione, recta sunt
judicanda. nptc con venire, neque multi cothurni paucu Cic dc Fin. 1. iii. c. 9. p.
228.
James Harris, James Harris (1st earl of Malmesbury), 1841
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Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook
... the later comedies upon scaffolds, and by men well and cleanly hosed and
shod, these matters of great princes were played upon lofty stages, and the
actors thereof wore upon their legs buskinss ofleather called cothurni,t and other
solemn ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COTHURNI»
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cothurni is used in the context of the following news items.
Venus in Fur
... and leather, and struts about on glistening patent-leather cothurni that would have given an ancient Greek actor pause (this following a sexily ... «TheaterMania.com, Jan 14»
803 Point SCRABBLE® Game Sets New World Tournament Record …
The bingos played were CRUMPLED (101 points), OUTRATED (72 points), COTHURNI (92 points), TRAVOISE (95 points), SHAKING (111 ... «PR Newswire, Dec 11»
Red Letter Day: A Record-Breaking Score at Stamford Scrabble …
... SHAKING, TRAVOISE, and COTHURNI, which the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary defines as “buskins worn by ancient Roman actors. «Wired News, Dec 11»
Saint Carmen is lacking in the divine
They evoke at once the garish decade in which the play is set - the seventies - and the elevated boots or cothurni worn by actors in ancient ... «Globe and Mail, Feb 11»
'Obeisant' spells Scrabble triumph for trans-sexual
Alongside “zinebs” (an agricultural fungicide) and “cothurni” (leather boots worn by Athenian actors), spectators were treated to a few smirks at ... «Independent, Oct 10»
A Wizard Casts His Spell in the Stable: 'Equus'
... a riff on the cothurni from Dysart's beloved ancient Greece — the staging of Alan's passionate equine encounters relies too heavily on musty ... «New York Sun, Sep 08»
