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Familiar 'Romeo and Juliet' gets a jolt of rebel energy
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'ROMEO AND JULIET'
recommended
When: Through June 19
Where: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 800 E. Grand on Navy Pier
Tickets: $48-$65
Call: (312) 595-5600
'You kiss by the book," says Juliet, chiding her Romeo, even if
she is clearly in the throes of first love.
True, just a short time earlier she could be seen playing like a
child, all curled up in the formidable lap of her former wet nurse.
But with that single line, Juliet suggests a hidden level of teasing
sophistication and imagination -- and even a readiness for life-
altering passion -- at once surprising, funny and powerful. And given ...
 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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A Devil of a coincidence; (1) FAMILY TIES: Tom Goodman-Hill plays John Lilburne, inset, in The Devil's Whore (2) TEEN SPIRIT: Andrea Riseborough as the fictional 17-year-old aristocrat Angelica Fanshawe.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...firebrand activist 'Freeborn' John Lilburne, and will now be able to tell...trace my father's family back to John Lilburne's Uncle Joseph.' Born in 1614, John Lilburne earned his nickname for arguing...
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Echo memories - Cantankerous, seditious, libellous (and proved right)
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...look at the life and times of John Lilburne, a man who had a talent for upsetting...the world was emptied of all but John Lilburne, Lilburne would quarrel with John, and John with Lilburne, " said a contemporary. John...
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Does immunity granted really equal immunity received?
Magazine article from: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
; ...in 1637.(11) In that year, John Lilburne was arrested for "having sent...from Holland to England."(12) Lilburne was taken before a clerk of the...background and current actions.(13) Lilburne eventually refused to answer further...
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"Whatsoever yee would that men should doe unto you, even so doe yee to them": an analysis of the effect of religious consciousness on the origins of the leveller movement.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...Oxfordshire (1) Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburne returned to England in 1653...to record the thing that he [Lilburne] died for, and to hang upon...know, and understand, that John Lilburne died for the Fundamental Laws...
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Echo Memories - Radical hothead whose name is forever linked to a missile
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...fortnight ago, we told the tale of John Lilburne, the leader of the 17th Century...the world was emptied of all but John Lilburne, Lilburne would quarrel with John and John with Lilburne." Fittingly, at his funeral...
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Questions unanswered: the Fifth Amendment and innocent witnesses.(Supreme Court Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
; ...oath occurred in England in 1637. (20) John Lilburne was arrested for importing seditious books...his knowledge of the seditious books, Lilburne ceased to cooperate. (22) Two weeks later, Lilburne was brought before the Star Chamber office...
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World turned upside down.
Magazine article from: New Internationalist
; ...most famous of these pamphlets, John Lilburne's An Agreement of the Free People...radical elements among the army. Lilburne and his fellow pamphleteers Richard...Tower of London by Parliament and Lilburne was tried for treason. A campaign...
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Seizing the "bounty of this virtuous tree": the sexual underpinnings of Jeffersonian pastoralism in Brother to Dragons.(Robert Penn Warren)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal
; ...312). More recently, John Burt's chapter devoted to...only murder (as is evident in Lilburne's brutal dismemberment of his slave John), but also sexual rapacity...as it was Meriwether and Lilburne Lewis's mission in 1804 and...
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DURHAM MEMORIES - Intrigue and terror plots in wake of the Commonwealth
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...Commons.The men appointed to the task were Robert and John Lilburne, supporters of Cromwell and members of an influential Sunderland family.They were related to John Lilburne, founder of the Levellers political movement, who...
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Killing no murder: Alan Marshall recounts the tale of the men who tried to assassinate Oliver Cromwell.(Miles Sindercombe and Edward Sexby)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Cromwell himself vowing (or so John Lilburne said) to break the Levellers...seeking a godly republic within. John Lilburne, the most troublesome of all the...wake of a failed intrigue with John Wildman, another former Leveller...
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