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Adonis
Adonis (1884), a “burlesque nightmare” by William F. Gill (book). [Bijou Theatre, 603 perf.] The sculptress Talamea ( Lillie Grubb) creates a statue of Adonis so beautiful that she falls in love with it and, helped by the goddess Artea ( Louise V. Essing), brings it to life. Unfortunately, she has sold the statue to the Duchess ( Jennie Reiffarth), who is equally taken by the living, wickedly winking beauty, and who insists that Adonis ( Henry E. Dixey) is hers. Adonis is unmoved by all the attention and prefers to play the field, so he runs away to the country, where he promptly falls in love with a simple country girl, Rosetta ( Amelia Summerville). The sculptress, the goddess, and the Duchess pursue him there and in the end make life so hectic for him that Adonis begs the goddess to turn him back into stone. She does. The music was by Beethoven, Audran, Suppé, Arthur Sullivan, Planquette, Offenbach, Mozart, Haydn, David Braham, John Eller, and, as Gill wrote, by “many more too vastly numerous to individualize, particularize or plagiarize.” Sullivan provided the evening's most popular musical moment when “A Most Susceptible Chancellor” became “A Most Susceptible Statue.” Gill's text and E. E. Rice's production offered not merely an adroit spoof of the Pygmalion‐Galatea legend, but of contemporary dramatic and musical theatre mannerisms as well. Thus, the constant rejection of Rosetta by her father was a travesty of a famous scene in the then‐popular Hazel Kirke. Nevertheless, it was young Dixey's brilliant tour de force that won the most applause and was the chief attraction. The public flocked to the theatre in such numbers that Adonis enjoyed the longest run in Broadway history up to its time, and Dixey played it off and on for twenty years.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Adonis." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Adonis." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Adonis.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Adonis." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Adonis.html |
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Adonis , in Greek mythology, beautiful youth beloved by Aphrodite and Persephone . He was born of the incestuous union of Myrrha (or Smyrna) and Cinyras, king of Cyprus. Aphrodite left Adonis in the care of Persephone, who raised him and made him her lover. Aphrodite later demanded the youth for herself, but Persephone was unwilling to relinquish him. When Adonis was gored to death by a boar, both Persephone and Aphrodite claimed him. Zeus settled the dispute by arranging for Adonis to spend half the year (the summer months) above the ground with Aphrodite and the other half in the underworld with Persephone. Adonis' death and resurrection, symbolic of the yearly cycle of vegetation, were widely celebrated in ancient Greece in the midsummer festival Adonia. The worship of Adonis corresponds to the cults of the Phrygian Attis and the Babylonian Tammuz .
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"Adonis." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Adonis." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Adonis.html "Adonis." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Adonis.html |
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Adonis Asteroid 2101, the second of the Apollo group to be discovered, by the Belgian astronomer Eugène Joseph Delporte (1882–1955) in 1936, when it passed within 0.015 AU (2.2 million km) of the Earth. It was not seen again until 1977. Adonis is about 1 km in diameter. Its orbit has a semimajor axis of 1.874 AU, period 2.57 years, perihelion 0.44 AU, aphelion 3.31 AU, and inclination 1°.4.
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"Adonis." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Adonis." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O80-Adonis.html "Adonis." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O80-Adonis.html |
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Adonis in classical mythology, a beautiful youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone. He was killed by a boar, but Zeus decreed that he should spend the winter of each year in the underworld with Persephone and the summer months with Aphrodite. According to the legend, the rose sprang from the earth where his blood was shed.
In extended usage, an Adonis is an extremely handsome young man. |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Adonis." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Adonis." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Adonis.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Adonis." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Adonis.html |
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Adonis In Phoenician and Greek myth, a youth of remarkable beauty, loved by Persephone and Aphrodite. Adonis was gored to death by a boar and, during his afterlife, Zeus decided that Adonis should spend part of the year with Persephone, queen of the underworld, and part with Aphrodite.
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"Adonis." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Adonis." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-Adonis.html "Adonis." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-Adonis.html |
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A·don·is / əˈdänis/ Greek Mythol. a beautiful youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone, who, after his death, shared his affections in four-month intervals. ∎ [as n.] (an Adonis) an extremely handsome young man. |
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"Adonis." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Adonis." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-adonis.html "Adonis." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-adonis.html |
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JAMES MacKILLOP. "Adonis." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAMES MacKILLOP. "Adonis." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-Adonis.html JAMES MacKILLOP. "Adonis." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-Adonis.html |
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Adonis
•anise, Janice
•Daphnis • Agnes
•harness, Kiwanis
•Dennis, Ennis, Glenys, menace, tennis, Venice
•feyness, gayness, greyness (US grayness)
•finis, penis
•Glynis, Innes, pinnace
•Widnes • bigness • lychnis • illness
•dimness • hipness
•fitness, witness
•Erinys • iciness
•dryness, flyness, shyness, slyness, wryness
•cornice
•Adonis, Clones, Issigonis
•coyness
•Eunice, Tunis
•Bernice, furnace
•Thespis • precipice • coppice • hospice
•auspice • Serapis
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"Adonis." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Adonis." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Adonis.html "Adonis." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Adonis.html |
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