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Messalina
Messalina (Valeria Messalina) , d. AD 48, Roman empress, wife of Claudius I . She was the mother of his children, Britannicus and Octavia. Her reputation for greed and lust was supposedly unknown to her husband until, in Claudius' absence, she publicly married her lover Caius Silius. A... Read more |
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Cassandra
Cassandra , in Greek legend, Trojan princess, daughter of Priam and Hecuba. She was given the power of prophecy by Apollo, but because she would not accept him as a lover, he changed her blessing to a curse, causing her prophecies never to be believed. While seeking refuge from the Greeks during the... Read more |
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Carlo Gesualdo
Carlo Gesualdo , Prince of Venosa, c.1560-1613, Italian composer. Gesualdo's later madrigals are striking for their time in their harmonic and dramatic boldness. They are contained in the last two (1611) of his six published books of madrigals. Gesualdo was a flamboyant personality: he had many love... Read more |
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Iago
Iago in Shakespeare's Othello (1602–4), the Machiavellian villain who as an apparently loyal subordinate so poisons Othello's mind that he kills his innocent wife and attempts to have her supposed lover murdered. Allusions to Iago refer to his single-minded desire for negativism and... Read more |
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Deirdre
Deirdre , beautiful heroine of Irish legend. A druid prophesied at her birth that she would bring great misfortunes. Deirdre, chosen to be the wife of Conchobar, king of Ulster, fell in love with Naoise, the son of Usnach, and fled with him and his two brothers to Scotland. After a long idyllic stay... Read more |
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Mrs Wallis Simpson
Simpson, Mrs Wallis (1896–1986). Wife of Edward, duke of Windsor. Born into a Baltimore family, Bessie Wallis Warfield first married an aviator, Earl Winfield Spencer, but his fondness for drink led to separation and ultimately divorce. Mrs Spencer travelled the world, but on... Read more |
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Aegisthus
Aegisthus , in Greek mythology, according to most legends the incestuous offspring of Thyestes and his daughter Pelopia. At Thyestes' behest Aegisthus revenged the murder of his brothers by killing his uncle Atreus . Later, he was known as the lover of Clytemnestra and aided her in the murdering of... Read more |
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Sleuth
Sleuth (1970). Anthony Shaffer's two‐character thriller, in which a husband ( Anthony Quayle) confronts his wife's lover ( Keith Baxter) and who together play a series of deadly games, was presented on Broadway in 1970, only nine months after its London premiere. Although it ran only half... Read more |
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Sophia Dorothea
Sophia Dorothea , 1666-1726, electress of Hanover, wife of Elector George Louis (later King George I of England); sometimes called Sophia Dorothea of Celle. Married to George in 1682, she bore him two children: George, later George II of England, and Sophia Dorothea, who became the wife of Frederick... Read more |
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bunny
bunny a child's word for a rabbit.bunny boiler a woman who takes revenge after having been spurned by her lover, with reference to the film Fatal Attraction, in which a jilted mistress boils her lover's pet rabbit.bunny girl a club hostess, waitress, or photographic model, wearing a skimpy costume... Read more |
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Greenaway, Peter
...screenwriter. An innovative and painterly director, his breakthrough film was The Draughtsman's Contract (1983). Other films include The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989), Prospero's Books ... |
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Nyman, Michael
...leading film composer. Several of his works, e.g. I'll Stake...OPERAS: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat (1987); Letters...traversée de Paris (1989); The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and ... |
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Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
...conjures up all the charm of a folk tale, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover is, to say the least, a complex film so divergent...therefore, is that The Cook, The Thief, ... |
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Escape and constraint: Female desire and narrative bondage in aeschylus'...
...really the Iliad. So what?" Her frustration stemmed from the difficulty...thesis that the Oresteia or The Cook, The Thief His Wife and Her Lover (hereafter Cook, Thief) ... |
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The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover[dagger]: on the evolution of the...
...evolution PROLOGUE In the film The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover (1989), the British director...gangster (the Thief) who governs his business while dining with ... |
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Movie Review: THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER
...Cineman Syndicate 01-01-1984 Movie Review: THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER British filmmaker Peter Greenaway goes overboard...sadistic criminal who takes horrible revenge on his ... |
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
Maggie the Cat and her husband, brick, the protagonists...a situation that has made his wife desperate, since she sees...most mendacious of the lot. Her big moment comes when she...Son was better looking than his stay-at-home brother... |
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MAKING OF A BIKINI QUEEN; In admirable shape: Dame Helen in bikini this week...
...into middle age and beyond. In her 60s, Catherine the Great was reputed to continue to take young lovers to bed some 40 years her junior. Mae West, who lived to 90, had a constant lover 45 years younger than her, and she coined the classic... |
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claim to frame; His music has provided the emotion to films as sumptuous as...
...repeating phrases that flux over time - his recent work is more dynamic and contradictory...obviously be in it." Obviously. Alongside his brother-in-arms Phillip Glass, Michael...Campion's The Piano. It's typical that his reputation in the suffocatingly highbrow... |
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`The Cook, the Thief' is dangerous, not dirty, insists Helen Mirren
...read the screenplay for "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover," and then she thought, "Well...he makes a pig of himself with his cronies. His wife, played by...wooden ... |
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'THE COOK, THE THIEF . . .' AND THE RATING ISSUE
...Friday, Peter Greenaway's "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" is scheduled to open in Boston...Belly of the Architect" brings to his films, the new one was slapped...the Academy when they ... |
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'THE COOK, THE THIEF . . .'
...work included "The Draughtsman's Contract" and "A Zed and Two Noughts," outdoes himself with "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" (Vidmark). This powerful metaphor for the degradation of materialism was embroiled in ... |
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