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Shakespeare's Early Modern English [6] was a time of great linguistic change for the English language. [7] One change that was then taking place was the Great Vowel Shift, which changed the pronunciation of long vowels. [7] Many words of Early Modern English were pronounced differently from today's standard pronunciation of Modern English. [7]
Op., short for opus number, used to denote one work of musical composition from many; Original pronunciation, the phonology of Early Modern English, as used in William Shakespeare's time, specifically when used to perform his works in modern times. Out of print, a status of a book title at a publishing house
Modern Times is a 1936 American part-talkie comedy film produced, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. In Chaplin's last performance as the iconic Little Tramp , his character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world.
In the classical period, the Latin word opus ("work", "labour"), plural opera, was used to identify, list, and catalogue a work of art. [1]By the 15th and 16th centuries, the word opus was used by Italian composers to denote a specific musical composition, and by German composers for collections of music. [2]
A modern adaptation of Gay and Pepusch's The Beggar's Opera. [198] 1929 The Nose (Dmitri Shostakovich). Gogol's strange short story provided the plot for this grotesque satire. [199] 1930 Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Weill). The composition of this opera was problematic, due to tension between the composer and his librettist, Bertolt ...
For a nation that has long hallowed freedom of speech, we Americans spend an awful lot of time telling each other to “shut up.” This preoccupation isn’t limited to family fights, angry ...
The "Page Op.", created in 1921 by Herbert Bayard Swope of The New York Evening World, is a possible precursor to the modern op-ed. [4] When Swope took over as main editor in 1920, he opted to designate a page from editorial staff as "a catchall for book reviews, society boilerplate, and obituaries". [5]
Modern Times (Wenming Xiaoshi), a 1903 Chinese novel Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s , a 1984 book by Paul Johnson Modern Times: Photography in the 20th Century , an exhibition held in winter 2014–2015 at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam