The Drama Desk, a group of 150 theater critics and reporters, announced the awards on May 14, 2000.Outstanding PlayCopenhagenOutstanding MusicalContact Outstanding Musical RevivalKiss Me,…
(3 syl.). The head of a faction in Verona (Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet). The device of the family is a mountain with sharply-peaked crest (mont-agu or acu). Source: Dictionary of…
A Persian love-tale, the Romeo and Juliet or Pyramus and Thisbe of Eastern romance. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MelampodeMeistersingers A B C D E F…
An abettor. The reference is to the practice of holding a candle in the Catholic Church for the reader, and in ordinary life to light a workman when he requires more light. “I'll be candle…
The buffet to hold flagons, cans, cups, and beakers. There are two in Stationers' Hall. “Away with the joint-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate.” —Shakespeare: Romeo and…
It was once supposed that little worms were bred in the fingers of idle servants. To this Shakespeare alludes— A round little worm Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid. Shakespeare:…
A little boy, a doll of a man. In Romeo and Juliet the Nurse calls Paris “a man of wax,” meaning a very “proper man.” Horace speaks of the “waxen arms of Telephus,” meaning well modelled…
Nephew to Montague, a testy, litigious gentleman, who would “quarrel with a man that had a hair more or a hair less in his beard than he had.” Mercutio says to him, “Thou hast quarrelled…
The son of Phoebus, who undertook to drive the chariot of the sun, was upset, and caused great mischief; Libya was parched into barren sands, and all Africa was more or less injured, the…
A Capulet; a “fiery” young noble. (Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.) It is the name given to the cat in the story of Reynard the Fox. Hence Mercutio says, “Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you…
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