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The duel described in the text is between a gingham dog and a calico cat, with a Chinese plate and an old Dutch clock as very unwilling witnesses, whom the poem's narrator credits for having described the events to him. The dueling animals, explains the narrator, eventually eat each other up and thus are both destroyed, causing the duel to end ...
This duel prompted passage of a Congressional act of February 20, 1839, prohibiting the giving or accepting challenges to a duel within the District of Columbia. General A. Galletin Lawrence , U.S. Minister to Costa Rica and Baron Kusserow , Secretary of the German Legation, fought a bloodless duel in 1868, being the last recorded duel fought ...
The prompter (sometimes prompt) in a theatre is a person who prompts or cues actors when they forget their lines or neglect to move on the stage to where they are supposed to be situated. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The role of the souffleur, or prompter, reaches back to the medieval theater, [ 4 ] but has disappeared in countries like Britain, the ...
Sheffer is a surname, and may refer to: Alla Sheffer, Israeli-Canadian computer scientist; Craig Sheffer (born 1960), American actor; Daniel Sheffer (1783–1880), U.S. congressman; Doron Sheffer (born 1972), Israeli basketball player; Henry M. Sheffer (1882–1964), American logician; Hogan Sheffer (born 1958), American screenwriter
The American prompter Philip Eisenberg recounted the story of a Maria Callas performance during which she needed louder prompts. The famed diva swooped down in a curtsy right in front of the prompter's box and – mid-curtsy, unnoticed by the audience – gave the Italian command "più forte!" ('louder') to her boxed colleague. [full citation ...
John Downes (died c. 1712) worked as a prompter at the Duke's Company, and later the United Company, for most of the Restoration period 1660–1700. His "historical review of the stage", Roscius Anglicanus ( 1708 ), is an invaluable source for historians both of Restoration and of Stuart theater.
"The Duel" was first serialized in Aleksey Suvorin's newspaper Novoye Vremya from October–November 1891, after which Suvorin edited the novella and published it as a separate edition. The book enjoyed nine re-issues during the 1890s. Chekhov included "The Duel" in Volume 6 of his Collected Works, published by Adolf Marks in 1899–1901. [1] [2]
And when censorship problems arose, the prompter had to resolve them. Nothing is known of Knight's personal history; he is known only through his professional activities. Prior to his service with the King's Men, he functioned as prompter for a competing company, Prince Charles's Men ; he witnessed a contract between Philip Henslowe and the ...