Tag Archives: Shakespeare

1870: Cento

A cento is a poem composed of lines taken from other poems, either by different authors or from the same author. (Homer and Virgil are traditional favorites.) The word comes from the Greek κεντρόνη, which means “patchwork garment.” The following … Continue reading

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1989: The Wish Being Father to the Thought

Stephen Bush: L. L. The Wish Being Father to the Thought (1989) (source)

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1983: None But the Fool

Laurence Olivier during a break in the filming of King Lear in 1983. KENT I know you. Where’s the king? Gentleman Contending with the fretful element: Bids the winds blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled water … Continue reading

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1895: Katherine

James Dromgole Linton: Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1895) (source)

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1966: Bring Me My Robe

Louis Mélançon: Leontyne Price as Cleopatra in Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra (1966)

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