There is a particularly pernicious trap awaiting actresses cast as Juliet. A similar trap awaits Lady Macbeth, though of a different nature, as well as several of the more archetypal male roles. But none of them are as insidious as The Juliet Trap. Here’s how it happens. The good director casts
There Dwells a Sect With More Millions Than Members.Of the Thousand Who Followed George Rapp to America in 1805 Eighteen Now Remain They Think the World Will End Before the Last of Them Dies Quiet and Simple Life in a Pennsylvania Village.Economy is the quaintest village in the United States. It is
Nellie Bly made several attempts at a regular column across her career. She was much more successful towards the end of her life, but she had a run of several months from the end of 1894 to early 1895 under the heading of “Nellie Bly Says.” These seem to be
In 1891, Dr. Charles Parkhurst, a clergyman elected president of the New York Society for the Prevention of Crime, launched a campaign against Tammany Hall’s political and social corruption. He exposed their connections with the police and their role in shielding crime and vice. Challenging Tammany Hall from the pulpit
In the space between the Capulet Ball and the famous Window Scene, we have a terrific mockery of love performed by an inebriated Mercutio, with a tipsy Benvolio laughing and shushing him. Early on, Mercutio tries to summon Romeo by invoking ‘love’:MERCUTIORomeo, Humours, Madman, Passion, Louer,Appeare thou in the likenesse