10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COTHURNUS»
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cothurnus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cothurnus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the ...
Cothurnus's need for linguistic control is largely responsible for transforming this
pastoral scene into a bloody battlefield. After the shepherds agree to begin the
play, one of them suggests making up a song, but he forgets the next line.
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The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of ...
difference between the cothurnus of the servant and that of the hero is very
conspicuous1. Whether the cothurnus was worn by all the characters in a tragedy
, or only by the more important ones, is uncertain. There was another tragic boot ...
3
Poets at Play: An Anthology of Modernist Drama
Enter COTHURNUS. Pierrot. Hello, what's this, for God's sake?— What's the
matter? Say, whadda you mean?—get off the stage, my friend, And pinch yourself
,—you're walking in your sleep! Cothurnus. I never sleep. Pierrot. Well, anyhow ...
Sarah Bay-Cheng, Barbara Cole, 2010
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A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, ed. by W. Smith
[R. W.] COTHURNUS (*<fflop«.j), a boot Its essential distinction was its height ; it
rose above the middle of the leg, so as to surround the calf (alte sura* vindre
cotkurno, Virg. Aen. i. 337), and sometimes it reached as high as the knees. (
Millin ...
Greek antiquities, William Smith (sir), sir William Smith, 1848
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A DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES
CUTINJS. COTTABUS. eitterent characters, show that the cothurnus was often
ornamented in a very tasteful and elaborate eaanner. The boots of the ancients
were laced in boot, and it was the object in so doing to make them fit the leg as ...
6
Unmanning Modernism: Gendered Re-readings
(7) The happy repartee is interrupted by Cothurnus, called Masque of Tragedv in
the dramatis personae, who runs Pierrot and Columbine off stage. When Pierrot,
judging from appearances, says that Cothurnus is sleepwalking, Cothurnus ...
Elizabeth Jane Harrison, Shirley Peterson, 1997
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Latin Synonyms with Their Different Significations and ...
Id. 2263, Saccus. Cothurnus. Soccus, a kind of shoe worn by the Homan women,
lower than those of men. Muliebris soccus. Suet. Cicero upbraids a consular
nobleman for using this sort of shoe. Consularis homo eoc- cos liabuit. —
Cothurnus ...
Jean Baptiste Gardin Dumesnil, 1809
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems: (American Poets ...
COTHURNUS: I never sleep. PIERROT: Well, anyhow, clear out. You don't
belong on here. Wait for your own scene! Whadda you think this is,—a
dressrehearsal? COTHURNUS: Sir, Iam tiredof waiting. Iwill wait No longer.
PIERROT: Well, but ...
Edna St. Vincent Millay, J. D. McClatchy, 2014
9
Women Writers of the Provincetown Players: A Collection of ...
[Enter Cothurnus.] Pierrot Hello, what's this, for God's sake? — What's the matter?
Say, whadda you mean? — get off the stage, my friend, And pinch yourself, —
you're walking in your sleep! Cothurnus I never sleep. Pierrot Well, anyhow, clear
...
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The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
[COTHURNUS closes the prompt-book with a bang, arises matter-offactly, comes
down stage, and places the table over the two bodies, drawing down the cover so
that they are hidden from any actors on the stage, but visible to the audience, ...
Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 2013
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COTHURNUS»
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cothurnus is used in the context of the following news items.
Jones Bootmaker introduces us to the history of 'the heel'
The Ancient Greeks used platform sandals called cothurnus in their tragic plays. The actors wore higher shoes to indicate higher social status ... «So Cheshire, Feb 15»
The 5000-year history of heels revealed
In 3000 BC, men wore platform sandals called cothurnus in their tragic plays to indicate high social status. From then onwards, both sexes ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
Dark comedy makes light of afterlife
22 and 23 with performances of “Blithe Spirit” in the Knight Spot. The dark comedy was staged as a collaborative effort between Cothurnus and ... «Lamron, Dec 14»
The Caryatids of Greece's Amphipolis are revealed
They are wearing long tunics and long fringed robes with rich folds, they bear cothurnus, which are decorated in red and yellow colours, while ... «The Sofia Globe, Sep 14»
Thought 'mandals' were a modern phenomenon? New exhibition …
Greek men could choose between baxeae, which were made from willow twigs, and the cothurnus, a calf-length boot sandal which was worn ... «Daily Mail, May 14»
Film project views learning through new lens
Alfonzetti and Peterson went to campus theater organization Cothurnus to recruit the production's five actors. The cast members are seniors ... «Lamron, Mar 14»
“Wit” confronts disease with scholarly logic, raw emotion
... Frame, said in a devastatingly sarcastic and self-reflective production of Margaret Edson's “Wit,” presented by Veg S.O.U.P. and Cothurnus. «Lamron, Feb 14»
The great uncompromiser
... initiative, no idealistic impetus, no cothurnus, no historical trappings. He gives his most important actions always the most commonplace form. «Socialist Worker Online, Nov 12»
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... whittlings pomatorhine underwrite inchoating councils cothurnus coater uncircumscribedness delinquencies puzzlement caesious velumina ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»
