2011年8月28日 星期日

Burke and Hare murders

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回來讀福爾摩斯偵探案,確有意趣。讀《新實在論研究》,其論時空,有未解處,擬閱《最近
物理學概觀》。昨閱畢《現代思潮》,條理清晰,說明透徹,但末章殊嫌草草。 ...


在新劇場看《伯克和海爾的罪惡》Burke and Hare,一點也不令人激動。

Burke and Hare murders

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street


去溫爾大街的皇后劇院看《巴雷茨》,儘管有很多內容我聽不懂,但我認為這是我在倫敦看過
的最好的戲劇了。從中得到一種美的感受,那是在其他劇裡從未得到過的。 ...




The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a play written by Rudolf Besier in 1930, based on the romance between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, and her father's unwillingness to allow them to marry.

The play was Besier's only real success as a playwright. He had been turned down by two London producers, but managed to have it staged in Malvern, directed by Sir Barry Jackson.

He then turned to the United States, but was rebuffed by no less than 27 producers, before the actress Katharine Cornell took a personal interest in the play and had it staged at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio in 1931. The role of Elizabeth Barrett worked so well for Cornell that it became her signature role.[1]

The Barretts of Wimpole Street then went to Broadway, where it opened on 9 February 1931 at the Empire Theatre, starring Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne.[2] It was revived there in 1934 and 1945.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-61, English poet, b. Durham. A delicate and precocious child, she spent a great part of her early life in a state of semi-invalidism. She read voraciously-philosophy, history, literature-and she wrote verse. In 1838 the Barrett family moved to 50 Wimpole St., London. Six years later Elizabeth published Poems, which brought her immediate fame. The volume was a favorite of the poet Robert Browning, and he began to correspond with her. The two fell in love, but their courtship was secret because of the opposition of Elizabeth's tyrannical father. They married in 1846 and traveled to Italy, where most of their married life was spent and where their one son was born. Mrs. Browning threw herself into the cause of Italian liberation from Austria. "Casa Guidi," their home in Florence, is preserved as a memorial. Happy in her marriage, Mrs. Browning recovered her health in Italy, and her work as a poet gained in strength and significance. Her greatest poetry, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), was inspired by her own love story. Casa Guidi Windows (1851), on Italian liberty, and Aurora Leigh (1857), a novel in verse, followed. During her lifetime Mrs. Browning was considered a better poet than her husband. Today her life and personality excite more interest than her work. Although as a poet she has been criticized for diffuseness, pedantry, and sentimentality, she reveals in such poems as "The Cry of the Children" and some of the Sonnets from the Portuguese a highly individual gift for lyric poetry.

Bibliography

See The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1845-46 (1899, new ed. 1930); R. Besier, The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1930), the most popular dramatization of the Brownings' love story; biographies by G. B. Taplin (1957), I. C. Clarke (1929, repr. 1970), and M. Forster (1989); The Courtship of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning (1985) by D. Karlin; studies by H. Cooper (1988) and G. Stephenson (1989); bibliography by W. Barnes (1967).


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At A House In Hampstead Sometime The Dwelling Of John Keats



哈代詩《漢普特德一屋》的手稿使我神往,我真喜歡他的文體。濟慈家的花園在當時一定
景色很美。李君想像過去那裡的人口一定不如現在這麼多,所以能聽到夜鶯的歌聲。 ...

Late Lyrics and Earlier by Thomas Hardy: At A House In Hampstead

At A House In Hampstead Sometime The Dwelling Of John Keats



























come you haunting here
Where streets have stolen up all around,
And never a nightingale pours one
Full-throated sound?

Drawn from your drowse by the Seven famed Hills,
Thought you to find all just the same
Here shining, as in hours of old,
If you but came?

What will you do in your surprise
At seeing that changes wrought in Rome
Are wrought yet more on the misty slope
One time your home?

Will you wake wind-wafts on these stairs?
Swing the doors open noisily?
Show as an umbraged ghost beside
Your ancient tree?

Or will you, softening, the while
You further and yet further look,
Learn that a laggard few would fain
Preserve your nook? . . .

-Where the Piazza steps incline,
And catch late light at eventide,
I once stood, in that Rome, and thought,
''Twas here he died.'

I drew to a violet-sprinkled spot,
Where day and night a pyramid keeps
Uplifted its white hand, and said,
''Tis there he sleeps.'

Pleasanter now it is to hold
That here, where sang he, more of him
Remains than where he, tuneless, cold,
Passed to the dim.


July 1920

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2011年8月27日 星期六

Berkeley Square (1929)

三十日星期三晴陰早王君來,與同赴巴克萊銀行( ^ ! " ( ; 1& 83010 取款,行中人言支票
上有兩家,須由他行來取,當時甚窘。歸途至密德蘭銀行( ^ ^ ^ ^ 831110 存款, ...
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牛津

早晨參觀沙爾多尼亞劇院,晚上參觀貝利奧爾學院。參觀布萊克維爾書店和牛津印刷所(展覽室)。到普萊劇場去看《巴克萊廣場》。這個劇院像個穀倉,演出的戲相當奇特和費解。 ...

Berkeley Square (1929), a drama in three acts by John L. Balderston. [ Lyceum Theatre, 229 perf.]

Berkeley Square (1929), a drama in three acts by John L. Balderston. [ Lyceum Theatre, 229 perf.] In 1784 a young American, Peter Standish, comes to London to marry Kate Pettigrew (Valerie Taylor). In 1928 his descendant, also named Peter Standish (Leslie Howard), has read all of his ancestor's diaries and correspondence and believes he knows the older man so well that he could exchange places with him, which he promptly does. But transported to the 18th century, things do not progress as smoothly for Standish as he had hoped, falling in love with Kate's sister Helen (Margalo Gillmore). Once back in the 20th century, Peter learns from a tombstone that Helen died shortly after the original Peter resumed his rightful role. He tells his 20th‐century sweetheart that he has decided to remain a bachelor, so she leaves as he slowly reads the inscription he has copied from the grave. Heywood Broun in the Telegram called it “easily the finest play now to be seen in New York,” while Burns Mantle in his Best Plays observed, “It is neither fantasy nor straight drama, but an artful combination of the two.” Howard and Gilbert Miller produced the drama that was based on Henry James's unfinished A Sense of the Past. John L[loyd] BALDERSTON (1889–1954), a Philadelphia native who claimed descent from Betsy Ross, went to England as a journalist after failing to graduate from Columbia College. He wrote several successful plays while overseas, including a dramatization of Dracula presented in New York in 1927. His Red Planet was produced in 1932 and his last years were spent writing horror films in Hollywood.

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《李爾王》《凱撒大帝》《第十二夜》《皆大歡喜》

我們在附近漫步,留連忘返。下午到艾馮河畔的斯特拉特福,下榻於佩頓旅館,招待得很好。去莎士比亞紀念劇場看演出。劇場外塗紅色,看上去很刺眼,但它的造型很優美。 ...

整個照明設備完全是隱蔽的;劇院內部的裝潢很吸引人。《李爾王》演得很好。四日星期三陰參觀莎士比亞誕生地。看了他後來的新居和墓地以及他上過的中學。 ...

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四日星期三陰參觀莎士比亞誕生地。看了他後來的新居和墓地以及他上過的中學。下午看《凱撒大帝》,演出比我在皇家劇院看的還要好。《第十二夜》的演出也不錯。 ...

五曰星期四陰參觀安娜,哈撒韋(八 11113 和瑪麗,阿登的故居,沃里克堡與凱尼爾沃思堡近在比鄰,我們分別前往參觀,前者非常壯麗。看《皆大歡喜》一劇, 演得非常好...

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She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer (1773), a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, produced at Covent Garden. Young Marlow and his friend Hastings travel down the country so that Marlow can see Miss Kate Hardcastle, whom his father intends him to marry. Losing their way, they meet Kate's wastrel stepbrother Tony Lumpkin, who directs them to the family home while telling them it is an inn-house. Marlow, shy with social equals and overbearing towards inferiors, treats Mr Hardcastle as the landlord and, mistaking his daughter for a servant, courts her. With the arrival of Marlow's father, Sir Charles, the tale of mistaken identities finally unravels.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/she-stoops-to-conquer#ixzz1WHXswCht


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在金斯韋劇院看《她屈從於征服者》,頗有趣。十二日星期四陰今日頗沉悶枯燥。聽基特
吉里奇( ! ^ ^ ! " ^ 80 上課,他講的是《李爾王》,包括三個方面: 1 ,主要情節; ...
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... 她屈從於妥協》。這個中國劇本太歐化了。李先生扮演一個迂腐氣十足的舊官吏,可是
他講的卻是滿嘴最時髦的幽默話,真是矛盾得可笑。馬小姐表演摩登女郎真是駕輕就熟, ...

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Heartbreak House

在皇后劇院看蕭伯納的《傷心之家》,聽不懂多少,深感羞愧,情緒很壞。十曰星期二晴^和秦邀我共進午餐。有人說魯回國了, ...

Heartbreak House (1919),

Heartbreak House is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919 and first played at the Garrick Theatre (New York) in 1920. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a position to guide Europe to safety failed to learn their proper business of political navigation". (p. 164)

http://www.answers.com/topic/heartbreak-house

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