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ANTIQUES.(Brief Article)
The Magazine Antiques
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December 1, 2000
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Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan; the wine is from God, but the drunkard is from the devil.
Increase Mather, Wo to Drunkards, 1673
At the beginning of the eighteenth century it was universally believed that rum, gin, and brandy were nutritious and healthful. Distilled spirits were viewed as foods that supplemented Limited and monotonous diets, as medications that could cure snakebites and broken legs, and as relaxants that would relieve depression, reduce tension, and ...
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Nahum Tate's Revision of Shakespeare's King Lears.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...James Black could still claim that Nahum Tate's notorious adaptation was "one...Christopher Spencer's advocacy of Tate, [4] the stigma of mediocrity which was first associated with Tate in the nineteenth century still discourages...
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'Our drooping country now erects her head: Nahum Tate's History of King Lear.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...had 'a minimum of direct effect' on Tate's rewriting of King Lear. (1) However...article seeks to extend the discussion of Tate's rewriting of Edmund, Edgar, and Albany...suggest something different by the 1680s. Tate seems to have consulted both quarto and...
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Apolitical Shakespeare; or, the Restoration 'Coriolanus.' (Shakespearean adaptations)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...climate, it is not surprising that Nahum Tate's adaptation of Coriolanus has long been overlooked, even though Tate as much as John Dryden (both poets...scholarship has consistently relegated Tate's The Ingratitude of a Common...
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An unhappy birthday for Shakespeare's tragic King Lear ; HOME
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...when the Irish poet and dramatist Nahum Tate massacred the text by axing the role...actormanager of the 18th century, questioned Tate's reworking and created his own amalgam, cutting more than 200 of Tate's lines, but keeping the happy...
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SHOW DISPLAYS DOUBTERS OF THE BARD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...such tragedies as "King Lear." In Nahum Tate's 1681 rewrite, Lear and Cordelia both live on, and she marries Edgar. Tate found the original play "a Heap of...that I had seiz'd a Treasure." Tate's vapid version dominated the English...
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Sticking It To Shakespeare
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...such tragedies as "King Lear." In Nahum Tate's 1681 rewrite, Lear and Cordelia both live on, and she marries Edgar. Tate found the original play "a Heap of...that I had seiz'd a Treasure." Tate's vapid version dominated the English...
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History of Shakespeare _ just as you like it
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times
; ...reinterpretations of Shakespeare's works. In 1681 a hack named Nahum Tate decided to make King Lear more upbeat by giving the tragedy a happy ending. The public loved it. Tate's adaptation remained the preferred version of the play...
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Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies
; ...weaken the general rule. A. R. Buck's interpretation of Nahum Tate's King Lear (1680?) illustrates the further development...conclude by celebrating inheritance by a single male. In Tate's King Lear this happens: less a character than a conduit...
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A King Lear of the debtors' prison: Dickens and Shakespeare on mortal shame.
Magazine article from: Social Research
; ...English stage for 200 years. For the Restoration theater, Nahum Tate instead supplied an adaptation (1975 [1681]) that imposed...the regularity and probability of the tale." Indeed, Tate's play had become something like a novel, with the pain...
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"All our lives we'd looked out for each other the way that motherless children tend to do"1: King Lear as Melodrama
Magazine article from: Literature/Film Quarterly
; ...according to Smiley, she is disallowed a means of coming to terms with evil in others, her father in particular. Just as Nahum Tate's melodramatic stage version of King Lear ends on an optimistic note, the close of the film reflects the more upbeat...
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