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Brief Candles takes its title from a line in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, from Macbeth's famous soliloquy: Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Eliot uses Lady Macbeth's state of mind as an example of the successful objective correlative: "The artistic 'inevitability' lies in this complete adequacy of the external to the emotion….", as a contrast to Hamlet. According to Eliot, the feelings of Hamlet are not sufficiently supported by the story and the other characters surrounding him.
The stanza has also been known by terms such as batch, fit, and stave. [2] The term stanza has a similar meaning to strophe, though strophe sometimes refers to an irregular set of lines, as opposed to regular, rhymed stanzas. [3] Even though the term "stanza" is taken from Italian, in the Italian language the word "strofa" is more commonly used.
[1] [2] Containing songs especially written for the show, the drama was adapted from the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which had been published just weeks before in December 1843. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] By February 1844 eight other adaptations had already appeared on the London stage, [ 5 ] including A Christmas Carol, or, the Miser's ...
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
Unlike his book counterpart, Fozziwig is still alive and is given a gift by Scrooge following his redemption. In the 1999 TV film A Christmas Carol, he is portrayed by Ian McNeice. In the 2004 musical A Christmas Carol, Fezziwig (played by Brian Bedford)—following a downturn in his business—approaches Scrooge and Marley for a business loan ...
The traditional origin is said to be a curse set upon the play by a coven of witches, angry at Shakespeare for using a real spell. [2] One hypothesis for the origin of this superstition is that Macbeth, being a popular play, was commonly put on by theatres in financial trouble, or that the high production costs of Macbeth put theatres in financial trouble.
Three Witches, MacBeth, by James Henry Nixon, British Museum (1831). The concept of the Three Witches themselves may have been influenced by an Old Norse skaldic poem, [5] in which twelve valkyries weave and choose who is to be slain at the Battle of Clontarf (fought outside Dublin in 1014).