Bean was developed while Atkinson was studying for his master's degree in electrical engineering at Queen's College, Oxford. A sketch featuring the character was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in t ...
Canned Laughter (1979), an experimental sitcom pilot for LWTThe Secret Policeman's Ball (1979), a charity special for Amnesty InternationalNot the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982)Peter Cook Co (1980)Th ...
Atkinson, the youngest of four brothers, was born in Consett, County Durham, England. His parents were Eric Atkinson, a farmer and company director, and Ella May (née Bainbridge), who married on 29 J ...
He was born Marcel Mangel in Strasbourg, France to a Jewish family. His parents were Ann Werzberg and Charles Mangel, a kosher butcher. When Marcel was four years old, the family moved to Lille, but t ...
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889. He was the only child of singers Charles Chaplin, Sr. and Hannah Hill. There is no official record of his birth, although Chaplin believed he was bor ...
With William Shakespeare at his peak, as well as Christopher Marlowe and many other playwrights, actors and theatres constantly busy, the high culture of the Elizabethan Renaissance was best expressed ...
The Victorian era and the early 20th century idealised the Elizabethan era. The Encyclop?dia Britannica maintains that "The long reign of Elizabeth I, 1558–1603, was England's Golden Age...'Merry En ...
Bharata Muni enunciated the eight Rasas in the Nātyasāstra, an ancient work of dramatic theory, written during the period between 200 BC and 200 AD. Each rasa, according to Nātyasāstra, has a pres ...
Introduction Of particular concern to Indian drama and literature are the term 'bhAva' or the state of mind and rasa (Sanskrit ?? lit. 'juice' or 'essence') referring generally to the emotional flav ...
Date and authorship The text, which now contains 6000 slokas, is attributed to the muni (sage) Bharata and is believed to have been written during the period between 200 BCE and 200 CE. The Natya Shas ...
Bharata (Sanskrit: ???) was an ancient Indian theatrologist and musicologist who authored the Natya Shastra, a theoretical treatise on ancient Indian dramaturgy and histrionics, especially Sanskrit ...
The earliest-surviving fragments of Sanskrit drama date from the 1st century CE. The wealth of archeological evidence from earlier periods offers no indication of the existence of a tradition of theat ...
Both Plato and Aristotle saw in mimesis the representation of nature. Plato wrote about mimesis in both Ion and The Republic (Books II, III, and X). In Ion, he states that poetry is the art of divine ...
Much lyric poetry depends on regular meter based either on number of syllables or on stress. The most common meters are as follows:Iambic – two syllables, with the short or unstressed syllable follow ...
The first epics were products of preliterate societies and oral poetic traditions. In these traditions, poetry is transmitted to the audience and from performer to performer by purely oral means.Early ...
