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51Expressionism — is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, theatre, film, architecture and music. The term often implies… …
52Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau — Portrait of Mirabeau President of the National Constituent Assembly In office …
53Long Day's Journey into Night — For the film, see Long Day s Journey Into Night (1962 film). Long Day s Journey Into Night Original window card, 1956 Written by Eugene O Neill …
54Recitative — IPA|/rɛsɪtə ti:v/ (also known by its Italian name recitativo (IPA|/retʃita ti:vo/)) is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech. The mostly syllabic… …
55Loeb Classical Library — The Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by the Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin Literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience …
56Laws of Form — (hereinafter LoF ) is a book by G. Spencer Brown, published in 1969, that straddles the boundary between mathematics and of philosophy. LoF describes three distinct logical systems: * The primary arithmetic (described in Chapter 4), whose models… …
57Senecan tragedy — is a body of ten 1st century (A. D.) dramas, of which eight were written by the Roman Stoic philosopher and politician L. Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger). Rediscovered by Italian humanists in the mid 16th century, they became the models for… …
58Fletcher, John — ▪ English dramatist Introduction baptized December 20, 1579, Rye, Sussex, England died August 29, 1625, London English Jacobean dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont (Beaumont, Francis) and other dramatists on comedies and… …
59Italian literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the Italian language that had its beginnings in the 13th century. Until that time nearly all literary work composed in the Middle Ages was written in Latin. Moreover, it was predominantly… …
60Monteverdi, Claudio — ▪ Italian composer and musician Introduction baptized May 15, 1567, Cremona, Duchy of Milan died November 29, 1643, Venice Italian composer of the late Renaissance, the most important developer of the then new genre, the opera. He also did much… …
