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History of Western Theatre: 17th Century to Now/Restoration
The Restoration period, during the reign of King Charles II from 1660 to 1685, is mostly celebrated for its satiric comedies, whose main dramatists are William Congreve (1670-1729), George Etherege (1635ca-1692), William Wycherley (1640ca-1715), John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), John Crowne (1641-1712), and Aphra Behn (1640-1689). Relative to English Renaissance theatre, these comedies are characterized by looser mores, especially of a sexual nature. Young and brilliant gallants dominate the stage and the women, played by actresses, unlike the previous generation when women were played by boys, are alluring and often promiscuous. While in Shakespearian comedies authoritarian old men are mostly respected, old men in Restoration comedies are often rakes, fools, or both. In "The country wife", Sparkish complains of modern poets: "Their predecessors were contented to make serving-men only their stage-fools: but these rogues must have gentlemen, with a pox to 'em, nay, knights; and, indeed, you shall hardly see a fool upon the stage but he's a knight. And to tell you the truth, they have kept me these six years from being a knight in earnest, for fear of being knighted in a play, and dubbed a fool."
The two worthiest comedies of Congreve are "Love for love" (1695) and "The way of the world" (1700), characterized by stunning wit, sharp repartees, cynical outlooks, egotism losing control, man-woman relations based on sex appeal, justly celebrated and comparable in quality to the best of Molière for acute observations on man and woman's foibles and follies. The closest to Congreve is Wycherley's strong wine contained in "The country wife" (1675). Etherege is charmingly bubbly with "The man of mode" (1676), whereas Vanbrugh with "The relapse" (1696), Crowne with "City politics" (1683), and Behn with "The rover (parts 1 and 2)" (1677 and 1681) are cruder but offer more wine than vinegar.
Although Restoration tragedies are generally weaker than Caroline ones, some generate considerable power, including "Samson agonistes" (1671) by John Milton (1608-1674), "All for Love" (1678) by John Dryden (1631-1700), "Oroonoko" (1696) by Thomas Southerne (1660-1746), and "Venice preserved" (1682) by Thomas Otway (1652-1685).
"Love for love"[edit]
"Love for love". Time: 1690s. Place: London, England.
"Love for love" text at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Love_for_Love
Because of his dissolute life, Valentine has incurred the displeasure of his father, Sir Sampson Legend and visits by his creditors, such as Trapland, whom he manages to hold off by plying him with drink. To pay off his debts, Valentine is forced to submit to this father's conditions: transferring the right to the family estate after his death to a younger brother back from sea named Ben. Mrs Frail, aunt to Angelica, a rich heiress whom Valentine courts, has learned that there is talk of marriage between Ben and Prue, daughter to her brother, Foresight, from a previous marriage, a girl bred in the country. She sarcastically comments: "Well, if he be but as great a sea-beast as she is a land-monster, we shall have a most amphibious breed. The progeny will be all otters." Mrs Frail confides to Foresight's wife that she hopes to wheedle Ben away from Prue. Ben and Prue are left together to see whether a match is possible between them. Having met the more polished Tattle previously, she shows unhappiness over Ben's rough behavior: "I don't know what to say to you, nor I don't care to speak with you at all," she admits. At this, Ben becomes angry: "Oons, I'll marry a Lapland witch as soon, and live upon selling contrary winds and wrecked vessels." Despite this bad start, without inquiring further, Sampson and Foresight agree to marrying the two the following night. Sampson is then told that Valentine is sick in bed and has begun to speak madly, which he interprets as a trick to defer signing the conveyance. Meanwhile, Valentine's friend, Scandal, aims to sleep with Foresight's wife. He suggests to the gullible husband that he has begun to look sick. Foresight believes him. "Good night, good Mr Foresight," says the hopeful Scandal to himself, "And I hope Mars and Venus will be in conjunction while your wife and I are together." When he starts to flirt with her, she pretends to be shocked; does he know of no honest woman? He answers: "Yes, faith, I believe some women are virtuous too; but 'tis as I believe some men are valiant, through fear. For why should a man court danger or a woman shun pleasure?" She does not. Meanwhile, Ben has found a more congenial companion in Mrs Frail, who warns: "Ay, but, my dear, we must keep it secret till the estate be settled; for you know, marrying without an estate is like sailing in a ship without ballast." But when Sampson is unable to have Valentine sign the transfer, Mrs Frail rejects Ben. After quarreling with his father about Prue and thinking he is to possess Mrs Frail, he is stunned at hearing her cry out: "Oh, see me no more,- for thou wert born amongst rocks, suckled by whales, cradled in a tempest, and whistled to by winds; and thou art come forth with fins and scales, and three rows of teeth, a most outrageous fish of prey." Although to most people, Valentine appears mad, this is not Foresight's opinion, who sees in him a great prognosticator. Angelica discovers this pretended madness and is disappointed at finding him a fake: "I thought your love of me had caused this transport in your soul; which, it seems, you only counterfeited for mercenary ends and sordid interest." She tells Sampson about her desire of marriage, which he interprets as being intended for his person, all the more when she suggests that their seeming match may serve to force Valentine out of his madman's disguise. Meanwhile, Prue has an eye to marrying Tattle, but he dismisses that idea: "Fie, fie, you're a woman now, and must think of a new man every morning and forget him every night." He is led to believe he may marry Angelica in disguise, but instead is tricked into marrying Mrs Frail, who in turn thought she was about to marry Valentine. On hearing of his father's match with Angelica, Valentine recovers his senses and asks his pardon, finally admitting his apparent madness was contrived. When hearing no encouragement from Angelica, he at last agrees to sign: "I have been disappointed of my only hope, and he that loses hope may part with anything." Finally convinced of his love towards her, she tears up the paper.
"The way of the world"[edit]
"The way of the world". Time: 1700s. Place: London, England.
"The way of the world" text at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Way_of_the_World
Three persons wait outside a chocolate-house to speak with Petulant, who does not wish to see them. They eventually go away angrily. He dismisses this: "Anger helps complexion, saves paint," says the indifferent Petulant. Fainall thinks he understands this attitude: "This continence is all dissembled; this is in order to have something to brag of the next time he makes court to Millamant, and swear he has abandoned the whole sex for her sake." Petulant's rival, Mirabell, warns him he may one day cut his throat for courting her, but Petulant is not impressed but taunts him by announcing that Mirabell's uncle, Sir Rowland, has arrived near the house of Lady Wishfort, Millamant's aunt and Fainall's mother-in-law: "You and he are not friends; and if he should marry and have a child, you may be disinherited, ha!" Lady Wishfort is Mirabell's enemy for having falsely pretended love to her. In St. James' Park, Fainwell accuses Mrs Marwood, his mistress, of preventing Mirabell from marrying Millamant, so that Lady Wishfort's fortune might come to her. Fainwell's wife, hating her husband's sight, lets the two walk on ahead, to which Mirabell comments: "You should have just so much disgust for your husband as may be sufficient to make you relish your lover." "You have been the cause that I have loved without bounds," she retorts, "and would you set limits to that aversion of which you have been the occasion?" To win Millamant, Mirabell has invented the existence of Sir Rowland, actually his servant, Waitewell, but Mrs Marwood, wishing to keep Mirabell as her lover, conveys the plot to Fainwell, who fears he is about to lose his wife's fortune to the one who cuckolds him. Mrs Marwood also intends to reveal the plot anonymously to Lady Wishfort in the form of a letter. Meanwhile, Lady Wishfort wishes Millamant to marry her nephew, Wilful Woudwit. To ruin Mirabell's chances with Millamant, Mrs Fainwell seeks to compromise her by locking her in a room with Wilful and have them discovered, but this ploy does not succeed. She intends to keep up her relations with Mirabell with conditions. "Trifles," she asserts, "as liberty to pay and receive visits to and from whom I please; to write and receive letters, without interrogatories or wry faces on your part; to wear what I please, and choose conversation with regard only to my own taste; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance, or to be intimate with fools, because they may be your relations." Meanwhile, the supposed Sir Rowland inveigles himself into Lady Wishfort's favor, though she cautions him. "But as I am a person, Sir Rowland," she says, "you must not attribute my yielding to any sinister appetite or indigestion of widowhood; nor impute my complacency to any lethargy of continence." However, her enthusiasm is cooled after reading Mrs Marwood's letter, revealing Sir Rowland as an impostor. He denies it, swearing the letter is an invention devised by Mirabell. He offers to fight him in a duel, but she prevents that, fearing for her reputation. Nevertheless, the disguised servant's tricks are discovered by Fainwell and Mrs Marwood and he is sent to prison, though quickly set free again by Mirabell. Meanwhile, Mrs Marwood has told Fainall of his wife's adulterous relation with Mirabell. Learning this, Lady Wishfort is thankful for her intervention. "Well, friend, you are enough to reconcile me to the bad world,"she asserts, "or else I would retire to deserts and solitudes and feed harmless sheep by groves and purling streams." But when Mrs Marwood and Mrs Fainall accuse each other of adultery, she no longer knows what to think. To get as much money as he can, Fainwell attempts to negotiate a settlement so that his mother-in-law, Lady Wishfort, may be prevented from marrying. "Next, my wife shall settle on me the remainder of her fortune, not made over already; and for her maintenance depend entirely on my discretion," he adds. He also wants part of Millamant's fortune, forfeited by her disobedience in contracting herself against Lady Wishfort's consent to Mirabell, who is forced to resign his marriage contract with her. But Fainall and Mrs Marwood are both thwarted, first by a servant, witness to their adulterous relations, next by the existence of a marriage contract between Mrs Fainall and Mirabell before she married Fainall, so that her property is reverted to Mirabell. This sum is restored to her after he secures Lady Wishfort's consent to marry Millamant.
"The country wife"[edit]
"The country wife". Time: 1670s. Place: London, England.
"The country wife" text at http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/274/1876/frameset.html
As Horner is followed by a quack doctor, he mutters to himself: "A quack is as fit for a pimp as a midwife for a bawd; they are still but in their way both helpers of nature." When the doctor is asked whether he did as required, he answers: "I have undone you for ever with the women, and reported you throughout the whole town as bad as an eunuch, with as much trouble as if I had made you one in earnest." Given the rumors circulating on Horner's impotence, Jasper Fidget does not hesitate to leave wife and sister at his lodging, but before Horner can explain his true state, both women leave disgusted. Horner is later surprised to learn of Pinchwife's marriage: "From such a whoremaster as you," he says to him, "One that knew the town so much, and women so well". Pinchwife defends himself by saying he made sure to marry a country wife: "'Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries; but he's a greater that does not marry a fool. What is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?" Horner saw Pinchwife at a play with a woman. He and his rakish friends, Harcourt and Dorilant, guess by Pinchwife's blushing that the woman in question was his wife, Margery. Pinchwife foolishly slips out the information that his wife was much admired at the play. He ushers her out as company comes in. To Pinchwife's disgust, a man-about town, Sparkish, praises extravagantly Alithea, his wife-to-be and Pinchwife's sister, before Harcourt's very face. He tries to prevent their speaking together, but is hindered by the foolishly confident Sparkish. At last, Alithea runs towards Sparkish to disclose that Harcourt insulted his wit, which at last arouses him, till she declares he only made trial to be satisfied of her virtue for his sake. Jasper's wife, Lady Fidget, along with Dainty Fidget and Mrs Squeamish, arrives to take Margery to the play, which Pinchwife seeks to prevent by saying she has the smallpox: an ineffective ploy, for they all have had it and consider themselves immune. Jasper invites Horner to follow them, who, taking Lady Fidget apart from the rest, whispers to her his true condition, a far more pleasing prospect to her now. To prevent the worst, Pinchwife insists on having his wife disguised in man's clothes, while Harcourt requests Sparkish to reconcile him to his future wife, the best method for friends to remain so. Despite Alithea's concern about Sparkish's honor, he retorts still with confidence: "That he makes love to you is a sign you are handsome, and that I am not jealous is a sign you are virtuous." When Pinchwife complains again of Sparkish's openness, he replies: "I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone. Is it not a frank age?" Harcourt and Dorilant notice how pretty Pinchwife's companion is, the former blurting out how much he resembles the woman he saw at the play and loved at first sight, a word which gladdens Margery. To Harcourt she is: "more beautiful than a poet's first mistress of imagination." "Or another man's last mistress of flesh and blood," counters Horner sarcastically, who kisses the disguised woman several times on pretense of giving the woman a kiss on his behalf, a deed which is followed by Harcourt and Dorilant. While Pinchwife goes out to find a coach, Horner takes the disguised gentleman away, who returns a little later running, with her hat full of oranges and dried fruit under her arm, a sight which makes the husband rub his forehead. In preparation of the wedding ceremony, Sparkish presents to Alithea Harcourt's brother, actually Harcourt himself, as the chaplain. Meanwhile, a husband's intense interrogation reveals that Horner did no more than force his tongue between Margery's teeth. Nevertheless, Pinchwife insists on her writing Horner an insulting letter. He dictates a strong one, but she mitigates it with a softer tone. Meanwhile, Jasper catches his wife, Lady Fidget, at Horner's house. She pretends she was looking for china pieces. While she is in the adjoining room and Horner on the way, Jasper calls out to warn her: "My Lady Fidget! Wife! He is coming in to you the back way." She answers: "Let him come, and welcome, which way he will." At his house, Pinchwife discovers his wife writing to Horner another letter, one that he never wished to see. He draws his sword on her, but is prevented from doing harm by Sparkish, invitating him to his wedding dinner. When he returns, Margery lies by saying she wrote the letter on behalf of his sister: "Because, lest Mr. Horner should be cruel, and refuse her; or be vain afterwards, and show the letter, she might disown it, the hand not being hers." He decides Horner should be her husband, for that might prevent his cuckolding him. He leads away what he thinks is Alithea but is actually his wife disguised, towards Horner's house, with a parson to follow soon after, then shows the letter to the disappointed Sparkish, who angrily repudiates the disillusioned Alithea. When Pinchwife comes to marry off Alithea to Horner, Margery, unwilling to lose him, discovers her true feelings, at which Pinchwide offers to draw his sword on Horner, but is prevented by Harcourt and eased in mind when Jasper and others explain Horner's supposed impotence, so that all may end happily with a dance of cuckolds.
"The man of mode"[edit]
"The man of mode". Time: 1670s. Place: London, England.
"The man of mode" text at http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/etherege/index.htm
Lady Townley and her niece, Emilia, are apprehensive on learning that old Bellair has obtained lodgings in the house where they live, Emilia being the mistress of his son and his cousin, because the father wishes him to marry instead Harriet Woodvill, a woman of greater fortune. To cheer up his glum-looking son, old Bellair assures him: "A wife is no curse when she brings the blessing of a good estate with her." He ushers out his son on his way towards Harriet. Meanwhile, two mistresses of the young rake, Dorimant, namely Bellinda and Mrs Loveit, confer together. To heap divisions between her lover and her rival with Dorimant's approval and pretending she thinks it is her, Bellinda tells Mrs Loveit she saw Dorimant at a play flirting with a masked woman. When Dorimant enters, an angry Mrs Loveit accuse shim of treachery, to which he retorts: "I am honest in my inclinations, and would not, were't not to avoid offence, make a lady a little in years believe I think her young, willfully mistake art for nature, and seem as fond of a thing I am weary of as when I doted on't in earnest." Despite these witticisms at her expense, she wishes to keep him. In turn, he accuses her of flirting with Sir Fopling Flutter, our man of mode, a man she hates. Harriet does not wish to marry young Bellair any more than he does, and so they join hands in agreeing to pretend loving each other until they can get out of it. Dorimant next visits Lady Townley and Emilia, followed by Flutter, all the clothes of the latter being of French make. To free himself from Mrs Loveit, Dorimant assures Flutter that the woman likes him. To help young Bellair, Harriet intends her mother to see her with Dorimant, opining: "She concludes if he does but speak to a woman she's undone— is on her knees every day to pray heaven defend me from him." As the two pass by, Dorimant recognizes Harriet as the masked woman at the play and speaks with her a second time in front of her anxious mother. To make Dorimant jealous, Mrs Loveit intends to flirt with Flutter, which alarms Bellinda, who tries to dissuade her from that. Mrs Loveit assures her: "'Tis the strongest cordial we can give to dying love, it often brings it back when there's no sign of life remaining. But I design not so much the reviving his, as my revenge." She goes on to flirt with him, but Dorimant backs off, suspecting a counter-plot. Notes his friend and bawd, Medley: "But I have known men fall into dangerous relapses when they have found a woman inclining to another." At a dance, Dorimant, in a disguised form because of his reputation as a rake, pretends to fall in with Lady Woodvill's old-fashioned views. He criticizes the young in this way: "They cry a woman's past her prime at twenty, decayed at four-and-twenty, old and insufferable at thirty," to which she agrees: "The depraved appetite of this vicious age tastes nothing but green fruit, and loathes it when 'tis kindly ripened." At the same party, old Bellair dances up to Emilia, unaware yet of his son's relation with her. Meanwhile, Dorimant is beginning to feel attracted to Harriet in earnest, but she gently rejects his advances. After lying in bed with Dorimant, Bellinda is nevertheless still anxious of losing him. She enjoins him to see Mrs Loveit only in public places. Young Bellair has now grown convinced that Harriet is in love with Dorimant: "Why, she's never well but when she's talking of you, but then she finds all the faults in you she can. She laughs at all who commend you; but then she speaks ill of all who do not." Bellinda is afraid a footman will betray her relation with Dorimant to her friend, Mrs Loveit, finds it is not so, but then finds Dorimant visiting her. Still wearied of her, Dorimant gives Mrs Loveit her letters back, but yet she manages to hold him again. When Bellinda enters, Dorimant grows pale and escapes pitifully. Young Bellair and Emilia marry in secret just as his father arrives to marry him to Harriet. Dorimant hears of this and offers his service. As Old Bellair arrives with his son, the chaplain, Smirk, is sure the father must be mistaken, for he has just married his son to another. On learning this, he offers Emilia his hand, but it is Emilia his son married. Mrs Loveit and Bellinda arrive together, a sight which makes Dorimant anxious. Mrs Loveit reveals, to Lady Woodvill's astonishment, that her daughter has been near Dorimant all this time. Yet Mrs Loveit and Bellinda now see they have lost Dorimant altogether. He promises to visit Harriet and her mother in the country, saying to the former: "The first time I saw you you left me with the pangs of love upon me, and this day my soul has quite given up her liberty."
"The relapse"[edit]
"The relapse". Time: 1690s. Place: London, England.
"The Relapse" text at http://www.archive.org/details/sirjohnvanbrugh01vanbiala
Repenting past adulteries, Loveless promised his wife, Amanda, that he will never again relapse. Fashion, younger brother to Lord Foppington, applies to him for more money, but is neglected and ignored. Angry at this ill treatment, he learns from Coupler, a disreputable matchmaker, that his brother intends to marry a country heiress, Hoyden, daughter to Sir Tunbelly Clumsey. Distrusting Foppington's intention to pay him, Coupler offers the "plump partridge" to Fashion instead, who will court her disguised as his brother. When Amanda's widowed cousin, Berinthia, arrives, Loveless immediately lusts after her, despite his previous promise to the contrary. Foppington next visits Loveless, and, mistakenly thinking Amanda susceptible to his charms, he flirts with her. An enraged Loveless stabs him, but only causes a superficial wound. Amanda is also courted by the debonnaire Worthy, who, aware of Loveless' courtship of Berinthia, asks her help in securing his love, which she accepts to do. At night, Loveless enters Berinthia's room and takes her by the hand. She protests against this intrusion, but in a very low voice. Meanwhile, Fashion presents himself to Clumsey and his daughter disguised as his elder brother. He impatiently asks Doctor Bull, the chaplain, to marry them, which he agrees to do. A little later, the real Foppington arrives and the cheat is discovered, at which time Bull is forced to acknowledge the previous marriage. At last Worthy after much effort assails Amanda with vehemence, but, though aware of her husband's relapse, she refuses him as her lover.
"City politics"[edit]
"City politics". Time: 1680s. Place: Naples, Italy.
"City politics" text at http://archive.org/details/dramaticworksjo06logagoog
Florio is heartily glad Paulo Camillo has just been elected chief magistrate of the city, for now he should have freer access to his wife, Rosaura. He has a surprising rival, Craffy, Paulo's son from a previous marriage. When Florio cries out against incest, Craffy retorts: "I don't think it is any more incest to lie with the same woman my father does than to drink in the same glass, or sit in the same pew at church." To him, "marriage-promises" are only "churchmouth-glue". Though not the viceroy's choice of chief magistrate, Paulo asks the governor of the city whether he may be knighted by him, but the governor refuses to introduce him. Pietro enters Paulo's house pretending to be sick and near death and to regret the cause: past debaucheries. But when the husband goes off to do his civic duties and then returns without warning, he is caught in his wife's embraces. A crafty Rosaura pretends Florio is fainting from an apoplectic fit and leads him away to cuckold her husband. Recognizing Florio's success, his acquaintance, Artall, enjoys the same favorable result with Lucinda, young wife of an old lawyer, Bartoline, marked by a defective speech for having lost all his teeth, who thought her safe in the house of the sober Paulo. A messenger from the viceroy sends word to Paulo to avoid raising the militia unnecessarily, but since his knightship was refused, he dismisses him. Paulo requests Bartoline's advice to fight against the viceroy, while the latter requests the same service. The lawyer accepts the money from both sides, provided he need not divulge it publicly. To fool the chief magistrate all the more, Florio pretends to have heard of the arrival of a French fleet. "Six of the principal commanders lurk in the disguise of pilgrims about Mount Vesuvio to burn the town by night," he warns. Paulo pretends he already knows about it and prepares to raise the militia. To fool the inexistent invaders, he goes off disguised as a bricklayer while his wife remains with Florio. However, they are interrupted by a drunk Craffy, who attempts to seduce her despite being told her husband is sleeping nearby in his bed, actually the disguised Florio. All three are surprised by the arrival of Paulo and the bricklayer in military gear. Craffy knocks his father down while Rosaura conveys Florio away. Still fearing the French, Paulo orders for a regiment of the militia: "I'll have a sentry at every door in my house, two at every post of my bed, and one under my bolster," says he. Later, a sober Craffy renews his suit towards his stepmother, but is surprised on his knees by his father. To save face, he pretends to ask for his blessing. Still pretending he is near death, Artall asks Bartoline to act as executor. The unsuspecting husband accepts, recommending Lucinda to take him to bed. "Come, chake yish poo genkleman, and lay him upon our bed, and cover him warm, and shit by him, and, gee hear? chalke goly to him." Meanwhile, Craffy has discovered Florio's illicit relation with Rosaura and alerts his father: "A whore and a rascal are associated in that room; I mean, your wife and Florio are there joined in one close abominable bond of lewdness, and cuckold you, as if they were to be hanged if they did not despatch it in a minute. The sight has shot me to my soul, my soul!" However, Paulo is distracted by Bartoline, who thinks Artall is Florio near death and leads them to the wrong room, permitting Florio to escape with Rosaura but interrupting Artall's intent. Nevertheless, a client of Bartoline surprises Artall in the arms of Lucinda and reveals it to the husband, yet Artall is not worried, knowing Bartoline takes him for Florio. When Paulo interrogates Craffy further concerning his wife, he persists in telling the truth, but then denies it when Rosaura insinuates he may eventually have his way with her. To Paulo, this shows madness in a son, so that he orders him locked in a room inside his house. To promote Florio's adulterous relations, a friend of his makes Paulo believe the viceroy intends him for the post of lord treasurer. Paulo is conveyed to his own house, which he mistakes for the viceroy's court, where he is surprised to find his son, escaped by picking the lock. The governor and his guards enter next, having arrested Paulo's entire faction for disturbing the city with agitations. With Craffy's help, the governor discovers Florio in the arms of Rosaura and then Bartoline expressing the lawfuless of the faction's right of arms, an opinion directly contrary to the one voiced to the viceroy. Florio is accused of letting in the French, as Artall is by another false witness, the latter at last revealed as himself. The governor orders the arrest of all concerned.
"The rover, part 1"[edit]
"The rover, part 1". Time: 1670s. Place: Naples, Italy but belonging to Spain.
"The rover, part 1" text at http://drama.eserver.org/plays/17th_century/rover/
During carnival time, Florinda and her sister, Hellena, frolic in the guise of gypsies. Florinda greets Belvile, her lover, whom she instructs on how to take her away from the house of her brother, Pedro, who wants her to marry a wealthier man, Antonio, the viceroy's son. Hellena greets Willmore, a man with a roving disposition, and they devise on how to get her away from a convent. Meanwhile, the masked Pedro has an eye on Angelica, a courtesan, until intercepted by Antonio, against whom he draws his sword for scorning his sister, Florinda. In the ensuing brawl between Spaniards and Englishmen, Willmore fights off Antonio, who attacked him for removing Angelica's picture on her balcony, a sign she belongs to him. Impressed by Willmore's manner, Angelica yields her charms to him for free, after which the masked Hellena is mortified to hear Willmore brag to Belvile: "Does not my fortune sit triumphant on my brow?" Willmore next flirts with Hellena, to Angelica's surprised anger. To test his constancy, the disguised Florinda offers Belvile a jewel, but he refuses it. She leaves it with him, who sees it is her picture. At night while waiting for Belville in her garden, Florinda is disgusted at seeing Willmore arrive drunk: "Sweet soul, let me salute thy shoe-string," he says, "why, thou may'st be free with me, I'll be very secret. I'll not boast who 'twas obliged me, not I, for hang me if I know thy name." "Heavens!" she exclaims, "What a filthy beast is this!" They struggle bodily as Belvile enters, both men beaten away by Pedro's servants. After being berated by Belville for his rowdiness, Willmore meets Antonio in front of Angelica's house again and they fight him with swords. Antonio is hurt, but officers of the law seize Belvile by mistake, set free by his rival, to whom he would least be obliged. As a result of his wound and as a return for this favor, Antonio asks Belvile to impersonate him while challenging Willmore to a duel, which Belvile believes is for the sake of Florinda, but is actually for Angelica's. Belvile and Willmore fight with swords, but are interrupted by Florinda. Pedro is so impressed by this show of bravado that he offers to the false Antonio (Belvile) his sister's hand, whereby Belvile reveals himself apart to the relieved Florinda, but this plot is marred by Willmore, who amiably greets Belvile, so that Pedro takes his sister back again. Enraged at being insulted by the man she just slept with, Angelica confronts Willmore, who, on learning of Hellena's fortune, wishes to go off with her, while Hellena herself enters disguised as a man to spy on him. Willmore discovers her disguise but thinks she is only his gypsy and ignores her. Seeking to escape from her brother, Florinda hides in the house of Blunt, a man recently cheated by a whore and willing to avenge himself on her instead as a reprensative of all women: "I will smile and deceive thee, flatter thee, and beat thee, kiss and swear, and lie to thee, embrace thee and rob thee, as she did me, fawn on thee, and strip thee stark naked, then hang thee out at my window by the heels, with a paper of scurvy verses fastened to thy breast, in praise of damnable women," he threatens. But when she names Belvile and gives him a ring as a pledge of her truth, he releases her. Blunt next receives the rowdy visit of Belvile and Willmore, who wish to speak with him. Not satisfied with the answers to their questions, Belvile and Willmore break down Blunt's door and then mock him, until Belvile recognizes Florinda's ring. They are accompanied by Pedro, who watches the masked Florinda enter without recognizing her, but goes away after hearing a rumor about her flight from his house. While Belvile and Florinda go off to marry, the vengeful Angelica enters and aims a pistol at Willmore's breast, but is prevented from shooting him by Antonio. However, when Antonio recognizes who the man is, no less than his rival, he aims the pistol at him, but is prevented in turn by Angelica. When Pedro next discovers Belville married with Florinda, he accepts her marriage at last, as a form of revenge against Antonio for sending another man to fight in his place. He also accepts his other sister's choice of marrying Willmore. Concludes Hellena: "I have considered the matter, brother, and find the three hundred thousand crowns my uncle left me (and you cannot keep from me) will be better laid out in love than in religion, and turn to as good an account."
"The rover, part 2"[edit]
"The rover, part 2". Time: 1680s. Place: Madrid, Spain.
"The rover, part 2" text at http://drama.eserver.org/plays/17th_century/rover/
After the death of his wife, Hellena, Willmore the rover is again "for woman in abundance". He heads straight for La Nuche, a courtesan, despite the presence of his rival, Carlos. In the ensuing brawl, Englishmen beat off the Spaniards, Willmore impressing a gentlewoman, Ariadne. On hearing about Blunt and Fetherfool's intentions on courting two rich but deformed Jewish women, Willmore disguises himself as a mountebank to fool them. Though Ariadne is contracted to marry her cousin, Beaumond, nephew of the English ambassador, neither love one another, she with her eye on Willmore, but he still on La Nuche. Blunt and Fetherfool draw lots on who will get the giant, who the dwarf, among the two Jewish women. The little one considers their suitors dumb. "No, my little diminutive mistress, my small epitomy of womankind," Blunt assures her, "we can prattle when our hands are in, but we are raw and bashful, young beginners; for this is the first time we ever were in love: we are something awkward, or so, but we shall come on in time, and mend upon encouragement." Fetherfool ceremoniously kisses the big one thanks to a ladder, but she is not impressed when he mentions he may become her man. "My man? My mouse. I'll marry none whose person and courage shall not bear some proportion to mine," she says. To spite La Nuche for her mercenary interests, the undisguised Willmore intends to court the giant, too, but when Ariadne, disguised as a man, proposes to take her away, he draws his sword on her, an altercation disrupted by Beaumond. During the following night, Beaumond mistakes Ariadne for La Nuche. While the latter scolds Beaumond, Willmore saunters over towards Ariadne in her true shape, who is content to leave Beaumond in the arms of the courtesan, though Willmore warns her: "I'm none of those spirits that can be conjured into a wedding-ring, and dance in the dull matrimonial circle all my days." Before he can get to her, Willmore visits La Nuche, but the impatient Beaumond breaks her door down and offers her a pearl necklace and diamond pendants, against which Willmore cannot hope to compete: "Look ye, sir, will not these pearls do better round my neck than those kind arms of yours?" asks she, "These pendants in my ears than all the tales of love you can whisper there?" Disgusted, Willmore leaves her for Ariadne, with Beaumond ashamed of his rival's generosity. Meanwhile, the disguised Ariadne encounters Beaumond, who, not recognizing her, counterfeits his friend's voice and by such means takes her away. The disappointed Willmore next encouters the disguised La Nuche, and, not recognizing her, attempts to seduce her, with no result, so that he wanders back towards Ariadne again, though this move is countered once again by Beaumond. At the same time, Fetherfool and Blunt lose their prizes to two other Englishmen. Blunt also loses the treasure in jewels he thought to have secured from La Nuche's defecting bawd, while Fetherfool must be clystered for having swallowed pearls he absconded from the giantess. After much confusion, Beaumond at long last agrees to marry Ariadne, while Willmore agrees to stay a little longer with La Nuche.
"Samson agonistes"[edit]
"Samson agonistes". Time: Antiquity. Place: Gaza, Palestine.
"Samson agonistes" text at http://archive.org/details/miltonssamsonago00miltuoft
As the bond-slave to the Philistines, Samson bemoans his present state to the tribe of Dan while resting from hard labors during the festivities meant for Dagon, idol-god of the Philistines. To control his considerable strength, he has been blinded by his people's enemies: "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon/Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse/Without all hope of day!" he cries out. His father, Manoa, intends to free him by giving the Philistines ransom money. Meanwhile, Samson's wife, the Philistine Dalila, who betrayed him in sleep by cutting off his hair, where his strength lies, delivering him to his foes, advances towards him in hope of being forgiven. She committed this atrocious deed out of fear of losing him, thinking he would be kept as a prisoner and in her arms. Samson accuses her of betraying him for money, which she denies, specifying that she was solicited and threatened by Danite magistrates and princes to deliver him: "And the priest/Was not behind, but ever at my ear/Preaching how meritorious with the gods/It would be to ensnare an irrelegious/Dishonorer of Dagon: what had I/To oppose against such powerful arguments?" "Being once a wife, to me thou was to leave/Parents and country; nor was I their subject,/Not under their protection, but my own,/Thou mine, not theirs-" He counters, rejecting her advances. "Thy fair enchanted cup and warbling charms/No more on me have power, their force is nulled:/So much of adder's wisdom I have learnt/To fence my ears against thy sorceries." Samson is next visited by Harapha, a Philistine warrior, who grieves at never having had a chance to prove his strength against him. Samson rudely spurns him away, to the consternation of the Danites, who fear worse will befall him. Samson replies: "But come what will my deadliest foe will prove/My speediest friend, by death to rid me hence,/The worst that he can give, to me the best." A public officer arrives to inform Samson he must be put to trials of strength during the festival. At first Samson refuses, then, struck by a new idea, accepts willingly. The Danites soon hear a very alarming sound. Out of breath, a messenger informs them that Samson has pulled down a pillar, crushing to death thousands of Philistines along with himself.
"All for love"[edit]
"All for love". Time: Ist century BC. Place: Alexandria, Egypt.
"All for love" text at http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/192/1089/frameset.html
After the lost naval battle against Octavius at Actium, Antony withdraws from life. An old soldier, Ventidius, attempts to rouse him with news that twelve legions have submitted to him as leader for further battles. Though unwilling to abandon Cleopatra, Antony at last says: "And I will leave her; though, Heaven knows, I love/Beyond life, conquest, empire, all, but honour;/But I will leave her." Missing Antony, Cleopatra exclaims: "Now come, Octavius,/I have no more to lose! prepare thy bands;/I'm fit to be a captive: Antony/Has taught my mind the fortune of a slave." To hold Antony at all costs, Alexas, her eunuch servant, gives jewels to his officers, including Ventidius, who rejects the gift, yet Antony accepts a bracelet and agrees to see her again, at which Ventidius moans: "Her eyes do Cæsar's work." Likewise, Antony moans on their "mutual ruin": "I saw you every day, and all the day;/And every day was still but as the first,/So eager was I still to see you more." To prove how much she loves, Cleopatra shows him a letter from Octavius, allowing her to keep Egypt and Syria, which she is willing to decline provided Antony stays with her. In view of this sacrifice, he yields to her again, at the same time fighting against Octavius' troops in Egypt. A worthy soldier, Dolabello, arrives from Octavius' camp to work out conditions of peace, while Ventidius brings in Antony's wife and Octavius' sister, Octavia, with their children. But Antony decides her he cannot be reconciled with her brother: "For I can ne'er be conquered but by love/And you do all for duty." However, on seeing his children, he yields, promising that "Tomorrow/Caesar and we are one." To counter this William Blake maneuver, Alexas counsels his mistress to approach Dollabella, for: "He stands already more than half suspected/Of loving you: the least kind word or glance/You give this youth, will kindle him with love:/Then, like a burning vessel set adrift,/You'll send him down amain before the wind,/To fire the heart of jealous Antony." Dollabella reveals to Cleopatra Antony's imminent departure and his own love, but she rejects any thought of making Antony jealous. Seeing Dolabella smitten and supported by Octavia, Ventidius lies to Antony by saying that Cleopatra bore easily the news of his departure while flirting with the messenger. Antony does not believe him, until Alexas arrives to confirm the falsehood. Seeing her husband unresponsive, Octavia prepares to go: "So, take my last farewell; for I despair/To have you whole, and scorn to take you half." When Antony sees Cleopatra in company with Dolabolla, both seem false. Meanwhile, Octavius' navy returns. The Egyptian fleet joyfully greet them and betray Antony. Innocent at this turn of events but fearing Antony's desperate anger, Cleopatra flees to her monument. To calm his rage, Alexas lies to him by saying Cleopatra stabbed herself to death, while Ventidius encourages him to engage once more in a soldier's life, to "die warm together". But, thinking Cleopatra dead, Antony will fight no more, "for all the bribes of life are gone away." He requests Ventidius to kill him, but the soldier turns the sword against himself instead. Antony follows him but misses the heart. He is discovered bleeding by Cleopatra and dies in her arms. In despair, Cleopatra poisons herself along with her two servants from the bite of aspics.
"Oroonoko". Time: 1690s. Place: West Indies.
"Oroonoko" text at https://archive.org/details/britishdramaaco03unkngoog
To increase their fortunes, Lucy follows her elder sister, Charlotte, to the West Indies. Charlotte being disguised as a man, Widow Lackitt becomes keen on marrying her. Charlotte informs the widow she is resolved to marry off her sister first. The widow proposes her booby son, Daniel. Lucy and Daniel get acquainted, he very intent of doing so by kissing her repeatedly. Lucy is not impressed, yet agrees to marry him. The prince of Angola, Oroonoko, is one of the men captured by Captain Driver and led in chains as the lord-governor's slave, represented in his absence by his attendant, Blandford. Oroonoko tells Blandford of his marriage with Imoinda, daughter of a white friend who became his wife. However, Oroonoko's father lusted after her and he never saw her again, either poisoned or sent far off, as he thinks. By coincidence, the lieutenant-governor loves one of Blandford's slaves known as Clemene but truly Imoinda. The lieutenant-governor asks Blandford to buy her, but he refuses. An impending revolt is set to go off on the part of black and white slaves at the plantations, but Oroonoko successfully defends white people against the slaves. Amid general thanks, Oroonoko is stunned on discovering his long-lost wife among the slaves. ", " says the overjoyed royal slave. Aboan, his friend in Angola, is also discovered, who encourages Oroonoko to raise a force for their freedom. But he declines the offer because they were acquired by trade. However, when reminded that the lord-governor may wish to take his wife to bed, he agrees to revolt. Now that Lucy is married, the widow claims Charlotte for herself, but the latter reveals she is already married to a woman living in England, though having arranged to have her poisoned by a friend. Convinced of this story, Lackitt offers her 1,000 pounds in gold and jewels as gifts. Likewise, though Daniel no longer cares for Lucy, she herself is content with his fortune. Amid the commotion caused by the rising of the slaves, Charlotte leaves the gold and jewels to her friend, Stanmore, for safekeeping, then reveals herself as a woman. He is overjoyed and asks to marry her. She accepts and readily favors his cousin's intention to marry the widow. Confronted with Charlotte's true sex, Lackitt agrees to it. In the confrontation, Oroonoko stabs to death Captain Driver. To limit any further damage, the lieutenant-governor offers pardon to them all. Though Oroonoko refuses, the troop of slaves fall on their faces. He only agrees to surrender after Blandford's promise that nothing will be done to him. However, the lieutenant-governor treacherously seizes Oroonoko after he drops his sword and, lusting after his wife, separates her from him. Blandford and Stanmore combine to confront the lieutenant-governor, requesting him to set Oroonoko and Imoinda free. He accepts, but pretends not to know where she lodges. After the visitors leave, he takes hold of her, intent on rape, but she removes his sword as the suspicious Blandford emerges from hiding to secure her release. Oroonoko is freed from prison and meets a bleeding Aboan, mistreated by his masters with rods and whips, who requests the means to kill himself. When Oroonoko gives him a dagger, he stabs himself to death. On his way out, Oroonoko crosses Imoinda's path. Disheartened by their masters' treacheries, she proposes to follow Aboan. He agrees but is unable to kill her. She lays her hand on his to give the death-blow. When the authorities arrive, he pretends to give up then stabs to death the lieutenant-governor and himself.
"Venice preserved"[edit]
"Venice preserved". Time: 17th century. Place: Venice, Italy.
"Venice preserved" text at http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/275/1878/frameset.html
Priuli, a senator of Venice, accuses Jaffier of seducing his only child, Belvidera. Jaffier's friend, Pierre, informs him of the evil intentions of officers-of-law he has met: "They told me, by the sentence of the law,/They had commission to seize all thy fortune-/Nay more, Priuli's cruel hand had signed it." He recommends that Jaffier meet friends of his, for tonight they'll speak of "precious mischief" afoot against the state of Venice, no less than a conspiracy: "For thou'rt to mix with men/Fit to disturb the peace of all the world,/And rule it when 'tis wildest." To one of the conspirators, Bedamar, Pierre seems "lovelily dreadful". Pierre daydreams thus concerning their armed revolt: "How lovelily the Adriatic, then,/Dressed in her flames, will shine! Devouring flames/Such as shall burn her to the watery bottom,/And hiss in her foundation!" He introduces Jaffier in their midst. Instead of confidence, the conspirators express distrust of him. As a result, Jaffier offers a pledge: his wife, Belvidera. But the following day, Belvidera is unwilling to serve as hostage of "that assembly, all made up of wretches". Jaffier reveals to her of the full extent of the conspiracy, how they will kill her father and the entire senate. She in turn informs him that one of the conspirators approached her bed: Renault, and presumes the worst from that. Distraught at such news, Jaffier tells Pierre about Renault's act, whom he calls a "winter rogue". Jaffier confronts Renault, suggesting he was nearly wronged as her husband. To rid himself of Jaffier, Renault says to the others he senses "danger in him" and that for their safety they should kill him, a proposal dismissed by Pierre, who wishes to protect his friend. Alone with her husband, Belvidera presses him to reveal the conspiracy to the senate. When the senate meets, Priuli informs them of rumors circulating in the city, how they are all "on the brink of gaping ruin". When called in their presence, Jaffier confirms the rumor and proposes to reveal the entire plot in exchange for clemency to all. The senate agrees. Officers very quickly seize Pierre and the others. To the senate Renault says only this: "Death's the best thing we ask, or you can give." To the conspirators, Jaffier appears as the worst of traitors. To Pierre, Jaffier says: "The safety of thy life was all I aimed at,/In recompense for faith and trust so broken." Yet the senate is forsworn, the prisoners will die: "Nay, cruelest racks and torments are preparing/To force confession from their dying pangs," reveals the aggrieved Belvidera. Jaffier blames Belvidera for this unfortunate turn of events and is about to stab her, but then desists, pleading with her to "fly to thy cruel father, save my friend,/Or all our future quiet's lost forever." Belvidera tells her father that Jaffier carries a dagger for her, "a hostage for his truth". Priului yields to his daughter's pleading easily, but his "ill-timed mercy" comes too late. As Pierre is about to be broken on the wheel as a traitor to the state, Jaffier manages to stab him to death before his torture begins, then stabs himself to death. Even before hearing of her husband's death, Belvidera grows distracted and seems to see her absent husband before her face: "I have got him, father! Oh!/My love! my dear! my blessing! help me! help me!/They have hold of me, and drag me to the bottom!/Nay—now they pull so hard— farewell." And dies.


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Never had a front porch on Top 100 list
Among everything else, the Internet seems to be home to an endless supply of lists. One doesn't have to spend much time surfing the Web to find just about anything rated in a list. Top 5, Top 10, Top 100 — the list of lists goes on and on.
We can find the five largest, smallest, fastest, slowest, cheapest, most expensive, best, worst. You name it. I'm sure with just a little effort you could find a Top 10 rating for the best Top 10 ratings ever. Sports people are especially notorious for needing to list and rate everything. Someone plays a great game? Quick, where does it rate on the best games ever?
I was on a well-known news site recently and saw that they were rating the Top 5 Front Porches of all time. I don't know why, but of all the lists you can check on any given day, I looked at this one.
And before you run off to Google the topic yourself so you can see what I saw, I have to tell you, I wasn't that impressed. The porches I saw pictured were nice enough, but it looked more as if they were awarding them a spot in the top five on decorations alone.
It was all too perfect with matching furniture and placemats and fake lemonade glasses. They didn't look all that comfortable or someplace where you'd just want to hang out for while. And, after all, isn't that what a front porch should be?
We've kind of lost touch with the value of a good front porch. So many houses anymore don't really have a front porch to speak of. You can't even see the front door of a lot of places because the garages stick out too far.
As for my wife and me, we've had two homes during our time together, and if you put the front "porch" of both of them together, you still wouldn't have room for a good hanging swing or hammock.
I can think of two things that have led to the demise of the front porch, air conditioning and decks. It hasn't been all that long ago that most houses didn't have air conditioning.
Even for many that did, it consisted of the window variety that kept one, maybe two rooms cool. Long, hot summer days would bring people out onto the front porch to keep cool.
As the big front porch slowly started to fade away, it was being replaced on the other side of the house with the backyard deck. That's where people were going now to sit outside for a bit and work the grill a little.
But let's face it, when you sit on the deck, you usually are seeing your backyard and, barring any big fences, maybe that of a neighbor or two.
The front porch is more social. There aren't as many fences in front yards. If everyone in the neighborhood would be out on the front porch, there's a better chance I think that you'd end up congregating at one spot and visiting.
Plus, in most cases, more goes on out front. You can see who's driving down the street or who's out for a walk. Front porches just seem a little more neighborly, a social skill I could probably stand to refine a bit.
The social hub front porch isn't dead completely, but it has faded quite a bit. There are still some nice ones out there. We occasionally walk past a house that a few years back had one added to what was a blah front of the house, and it did wonders to the look of the house.
Two members of my wife's family have great front porches. They really do seem more fun to hang out on than a little wooden deck hidden in the back. With a little work — and a lot of money — I think a decent one could be added to our house.
But it's more likely that we'll just keep saying that our "next house" will have a big front porch.
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Aerosmith has released a trailer for the band's upcoming live DVD, Rock From the Rising Sun.
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The film offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tour came together, along with classic tracks recorded across a number of shows that autumn.
Rock From the Rising Sun is Aerosmith's first live release since 2004's You Gotta Move. It will see a release on DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats via Eagle Rock Entertainment on July 22.
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Rangers Celebrate With Ginger Ale So Josh Hamilton Can Join the Fun
This has to be one of the more admirable instances of team unity I've ever seen in sports. It may not seem like a big deal to the outsider, but to Josh Hamilton it means a ton. After another dominating performance by Cliff Lee helped Texas advance to the ALCS, the Rangers celebrated with Ginger…Read More


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The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) rolled out a programme to install automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at its land-based leisure and sports venues earlier this month, a spokesman for the LCSD said today (April 16).
The programme is part of the department's continuous efforts in enhancing its venue facilities and providing quality services for members of the public. The AEDs are being installed at 254 major land-based venues in phases to assist persons in need of heart resuscitation. When applying heart resuscitation to the persons in need, immediate use of AEDs at the same time will increase their chances of survival.
Under the programme, the first batch of AEDs has been installed at 80 land-based venues, and installation at the remaining venues will be completed by the end of June. The programme costs about $3 million.
The LCSD has already installed AEDs at all of its aquatic venues since 2011 and the result is satisfactory. By the end of March this year, AEDs have been used 34 times in the aquatic venues, where electric shock was delivered seven times. The department has therefore decided to expand the programme to land-based venues with active facilities and high usage, including major parks, playgrounds, sports grounds, sports centres, tennis courts and soccer pitches.
"Land-based venues have high patronage rates and users of the active facilities usually engage in a greater degree of exercise. The availability of AEDs at these venues can enable persons in need to receive appropriate first-aid treatment in a timely manner," the spokesman said.
He added that AEDs are installed in easily accessible and noticeable places such as the covered areas outside venue offices or the public areas outside washrooms, so that holders of AED operation certificates, including venue staff and the public, can quickly access the devices and offer assistance to the persons in need instantly.
"The LCSD has provided training courses on the operation of AEDs and heart resuscitation to most of the venue staff concerned," the spokesman said.
"To keep up with the installation schedule of the AEDs, we will continue to organise training courses and encourage more colleagues of different ranks to learn the skills," he added.
For cultural venues, it is planned that 56 major cultural venues such as public libraries, civic centres, performance venues and museums will be equipped with AEDs in the middle of the year.
"The LCSD will review the arrangement of installing AEDs at land-based venues in due course before considering whether to expand the scheme to more venues," the spokesman said.
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The Cowgirls cut down the nets after winning the 2012 WNIT Championship.
Toni Young scored 25 points, Tiffany Bias added 17 points and 11 assists and Oklahoma State ended a season marked by tragedy by beating James Madison 75-68 on Saturday to win the program's first WNIT championship.
The Cowgirls are presented the 2012 WNIT Championship trophy. Liz Donohoe and 2012 WNIT MVP Toni Young were also honored for their outstanding play.
Toni Young scored a season-high 27 points, Liz Donohoe added 20 points and 11 rebounds for her fourth straight double-double and Oklahoma State advanced to the finals of the Women's NIT for the first time by beating San Diego 73-57 on Wednesday night.
Highlights from the Cowgirls' home win over Texas Tech.
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2011-12 (Junior)
· Played in 33 games on the year and made 10 starts
· Started all six games during OSU's WNIT title run on her way to earning tournament MVP honors
· Became just the second player in school history to record 1,000 career points, 700 rebounds and 100 blocks for her career
· Had three 20-point outings during OSU's six WNIT games
· Scored 22 points against Central Arkansas
· Had 18 points and 11 rebounds in OSU's second-round win over Wichita State
· Scored a season-high 27 points in the Cowgirls' semifinal victory over San Diego
· Played a season-high 35 minutes against James Madison in the WNIT title game
· Scored 25 points and pulled nine rebounds against the Dukes
· Grabbed a season-high 12 rebounds against Arkansas-Pine Bluff
· Scored 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in OSU's win over Texas
· Tallied a double-double at Iowa State with 17 points and 10 rebounds
· Matched her season high with 12 boards against Iowa State in Stillwater
· Competed in the high jump for the OSU track and field squad in the spring
· Won her debut at the John McDonnell Invitational after clearing 5-10.00
· Finished second at the Payton Jordan Invitational at 6-00.50
· Won the Arkansas Twilight with a jump of 5-10.75
· Posted a runner-up finish at the Big 12 Championship with a top jump of 6-01.25
· Tied for first at the NCAA West Preliminary regional at 5-10.75 to advance to the NCAA Championship
· Finished fifth at the NCAA Championship with a season-best and school-record jump of 6-01.50
· With her finish, she earned first-team All-America honors
· She also achieved the Olympic Trials "A" Standard to earn the right to compete for a spot in the Olympics in London
2010-11 (Sophomore)
· Was named a second-team All-Big 12 pick
· Played in 31 games and made starts in 30 of those contests
· Finished first in the league in rebounding at 9.1 boards per game
· Ranked 11th in the league with her 15.5 points per contest
· Also recorded 14 double-doubles on the year, which ranked second in the league
· Tallied double-doubles in three of the squad's first four games
· Had a 25-point, 10-rebound performance against Oral Roberts
· Narrowly missed a triple-double with 20 points, 11 rebounds and eight blocks against Nebraska
· Pulled a school-record 22 rebounds at Missouri
· Recorded a 16-point, 12-rebound effort against Texas A&M
· Logged a 30-point 13-board showing against Texas Tech
· Performance against the Lady Raiders was the first of four consecutive double-doubles
· Had 23 points and 17 rebounds at Texas A&M
· Put together a 34-point, 18-rebound showing in OSU's WNIT win over Pepperdine
2009-2010 (Freshman)
· Played in all 35 games as a freshman
· Made 16 starts, including the last 11 games of the season
· Was third on the squad with her 6.3 boards per game
· Also was third on the team with her 25 blocks
· Had her first career double-double with 10 points and a season-high 16 rebounds against Marist
· Her first career start came in the win over the Red Foxes as well
· Grabbed 12 rebounds in 18 minutes against UC Riverside
· Had 12 points and 12 rebounds against Texas-Pan American
· Finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds against Texas Tech in Stillwater
· Made seven of her 10 shots against the Lady Raiders on her way to a 19-point effort
· Pulled 11 rebounds in OSU's win over Iowa State
· Scored 16 points and grabbed nine rebounds against Kansas in the first round of the Big 12 Championship
· Pulled 10 rebounds and played a season-high 34 minutes in the Cowgirls' win over Iowa State at the Big 12 Championship
· Scored a season-high 22 points in OSU's first-round NCAA Tournament win against Chattanooga
· Played 31 minutes in OSU's second-round game against Georgia, finishing with eight points and 11 rebounds
Before OSU
· Averaged 14.7 points and 8.0 rebounds as a senior for Del City
· Also averaged 3.1 steals and 2.0 blocks per contest
· Helped the Eagles to a 24-5 record and the Class 6A state championship in 2009
· Was named a first-team all-state selection
· Ranked No. 93 on the ESPNU HoopGurlz 100 list
· Was named The Oklahoman's Big All-City Player of the Year as a senior
· Scored 17 points in the 2009 Big All-City game
· Was the lone female to compete in the event's slam dunk contest, an event she won
· Also helped Del City to state tournament berths as a sophomore and a junior
· Averaged 12.6 points per game as a junior
· Earned honorable mention All-Big City honors from The Oklahoman
· Tied the national high jump record with a jump of six feet, four inches previously set by Amy Acuff in 1993
· Won three consecutive state titles in the event
· Competed in volleyball as well, earning all-state honors
· Born Jan. 11, 1991 in Del City, Oklahoma
· Is the daughter of Veronica Young and Geane Johnson
· Has nine siblings; Michael, Laurel, Virgil, Angela, Ashley, Shaun, Money Ja'quori, Omarri
· Contemplating a major in education
· Enjoys watching sports and watching cartoons
· Also considered Florida, Oklahoma, Kansas State and Texas A&M


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The Sitter
|The Sitter
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|Produced by
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|Written by
|Brian Gatewood
Alessandro Tanaka
|Jonah Hill
Max Records
Ari Graynor
J. B. Smoove
Sam Rockwell
|Music by
|Jeff McIlwain
David Wingo
|Tim Orr
|Edited by
|Craig Alpert
Michael De Luca Productions
|Distributed by
|20th Century Fox
Release dates
Running time
|81 minutes[1]
87 minutes (unrated extended version)
|United States
|$25 million[2]
|Box office
|$34.5 million[3]
The Sitter is a 2011 comedy film directed by David Gordon Green and produced by Michael De Luca. The film follows a slacker college student who, after being suspended, is forced by his mother to fill in for a babysitter that called in sick. During this time, he takes his charges along for his extensive criminal escapades.
The film is a Michael De Luca Productions and 20th Century Fox joint venture, distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film was originally scheduled to be released in theaters on August 5, 2011, but was pushed back to December 9, 2011.
Noah (Jonah Hill) is a college student who has been suspended from school and lives with his divorced mother. When the babysitter of Mrs. Pedulla, who is wealthy and is setting up his mother with a surgeon, calls in sick, he reluctantly agrees to babysit her spoiled kids: neurotic son Slater (Max Records), pop culture obsessed wild child Blithe (Landry Bender) and pyromaniac adopted son Rodrigo (Kevin Hernandez).
- Jonah Hill as Noah Griffith, a suspended college student.
- Ari Graynor as Marisa Lewis, Noah's friend with benefits.
- Sam Rockwell as Karl, a drug lord.
- J. B. Smoove as Julio, Karl's right-hand man.
- Max Records as Slater Pedulla, the neurotic oldest son.
- Landry Bender as Blithe Pedulla, the vain, celebrity-obsessed daughter.
- Kevin Hernandez as Rodrigo Pedulla, the unpredictable adopted son.
- Kylie Bunbury as Roxanne, Noah's college classmate.
- Method Man as Jacolby
- Erin Daniels as Mrs. Pedulla
- D. W. Moffett as Doctor Pedulla
- Jessica Hecht as Sandy Griffith
- Bruce Altman as Bruce Griffith
- Nicky Katt as Officer Petite
- Jessica DiGiovanni as party girl (Unrated version)
The Sitter has received mostly negative reviews from critics. It currently holds a 21% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 107 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2/10. The consensus states: "With its recycled plot, misguided gags, and a formula performance from Jonah Hill, The Sitter adds up to another disappointing entry from director David Gordon Green."[4] Richard Roeper listed it as the #1 worst movie of 2011.
Home media[edit]
The Sitter was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 20, 2012.
- ^ "Title « British Board of Film Classification". Bbfc.co.uk. 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
- ^ "Movie Projector: 'New Year's Eve' cheer; 'The Sitter'? Not so much - latimes.com". Latimesblogs.latimes.com. 2011-12-08. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
- ^ "The Sitter (2011)". Box Office Mojo. 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
- ^ "The Sitter". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
External links[edit]
- The Sitter at the Internet Movie Database
- The Sitter at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Sitter at Box Office Mojo


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Marie Grosse, Lyonel Guillot, Benoît Reneaume, Emmanuel Fleury, Cyril Hermerel, Alexandre Choux, Laurent Jeannot, Isabelle Geoffray, Alexis Faivre, Olivier Breton, Johan Andre, Remy Collier, Olivier Legaie
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Volume 59 / Number 1 / January 2011 / Pages 205-215
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Low density foams (in this work, foam density refers to apparent density) are materials of interest for fusion experiments. Low density poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) (commercial name TPX) foams have been produced for [approximately]30 years. TPX foams have been shown to have densities as low as 3 mgcm-3, which is very close to air density (1.2 mgcm-3). Around this density foams are very light and highly fragile. Their fabrication is thus a real technological challenge.However, shrinking always appears in ranges ranking from 25% to almost 200%. As a result, the apparent density of the final foam never matches the expected value given by the precursor solution concentration. Besides, even if the mold dimensions are precisely known, shrinkage is never linear, and foams have to be machined for precise density measurement.In our work we present a fabrication process for TPX foams and discuss machining and density measuring issues.Particularly, we have found that there are volume and weight limits for a determination of density within the range of 3% uncertainty. This raises the question whether density should rather be determined directly on millimeter-sized targets or should be performed on a bigger scale sample prepared from the same batch.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $4.5 million grant to a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder to better understand the electrical processes that connect the Earth with the atmosphere and with space.
Just as codes once were developed for public safety communication via citizens band radios, a common language now is being formulated for disaster communication via Twitter -- posing a challenge for people who haven't yet learned or can't recall it.
SuviCa Inc. of Boulder and the University of Colorado recently completed an exclusive license agreement for a CU drug screening technology to identify novel therapies for cancer.
The University of Colorado Boulder and NASA will host public talks exploring space science and life aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 20 and 21. These campus events are being held in conjunction with NASA's traveling multimedia exhibit "Destination: Station," which immerses visitors in the story of the space station and includes hands-on activities, imagery and audio and visual technology. The exhibit runs from Sept. 17 through Oct. 28 at the Wings Over the Rockies museum in Denver.
The blanket of sea ice that floats on the Arctic Ocean appears to have reached its lowest extent for 2011, the second lowest recorded since satellites began measuring it in 1979, according to the University of Colorado Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million University of Colorado Boulder package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought.
The Tempest unmanned aircraft -- a University of Colorado Boulder-developed system that was the first to intercept a "supercell" thunderstorm -- will be exhibited at a Capitol Hill event on Wednesday, Sept. 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building, located on Constitution Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets NE in Washington, D.C.
A surprising new discovery by the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of California, Davis regarding the division of tiny "power plants" within cells known as mitochondria has implications for better understanding a wide variety of human diseases and conditions due to mitochondrial defects.
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Putting on pants too much for you, and yet you love gambling at the casino? Better move to Delaware if you don't already live there, as the state has become the first to approve online casino gambling. That's right, making bets on games you would usually only be able to play inside the casino, from the comfort of your couch. Whether or not you wear pants is your call. [More]
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Tulsa Man's Rhino Cups Break Antique Roadshow's Appraisal Record At $1-1.5 Million
Start digging through your attic, basement or anywhere else you keep junk — it could be worth millions. One man in Tulsa found out just that, when his set of Chinese rhinoceros cups were pegged at a value of $1-1.5 million by Antiques Roadshow, breaking the program's previous appraisal record. [More]
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Washington - With recent polling showing voters trusting President Obama and congressional Democrats to protect and strengthen Medicare and Medicaid, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today launched a $600,000 ad campaign in critical battleground state races to support candidates who will stand with working people and oppose cuts to these critical programs.
"We need leaders who will make investments in vital services like Medicare and Medicaid, not pushing plans that balance the budget on the backs of seniors and the middle class," said SEIU Political Director Brandon Davis. "At a time when America's workers are moving forward and trying to build their retirement savings lost during a recession caused by Wall Street's excesses, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and Congressional Republicans support legislation that would leave Americans facing increased costs, decreased coverage, or loss of coverage altogether."
In a new radio ad in Florida, a senior citizen asks her adult son to help explain where Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's really stand on Medicare and what their plans mean for the future. The ad, which details some of the devastating impacts of the extreme Romney-Ryan plan, directs listeners to learn the truth for themselves at http://www.medicareromneyryan.com/ and is the second radio ad of an extended radio campaign targeting Florida seniors that began with the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Both ads can be heard at http://www.medicareromneyryan.com/.
In Michigan's First Congressional District, SEIU's new TV ad in the Traverse City-Cadillac and Marquette media markets highlight Republican Congressman Dan Benishek's vote to end Medicare as we know it by supporting the extremist budget proposed by Congressman Paul Ryan. The bill would have cost seniors $6,400 more per year while protecting tax breaks for millionaires. The ad can be viewed here: http://youtu.be/BPgqOzn1rbo.
SEIU's TV ad in the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News media market discusses Second District Republican Congressman Scott Rigell's votes for Congressman Paul Ryan's extremist budget and vote to raise the retirement age for Social Security to 70. Rigell also opposes helping seniors close the "donut hole" in their prescription drug coverage under Medicare while cutting Medicaid funding in half, endangering long-term care coverage for seniors and those with disabilities. The ad can be viewed here: http://youtu.be/CTQoibncJTM.
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Radio Spot (Florida) http://www.medicareromneyryan.com/
Man: Hello?
Mom: Jeffrey, it's your mother.
Man: Hey mom, how are you?
Mom: I'm good.
Man: What ya doing?
Mom: Well I've been watching TV all day but it's been making my head spin.
Man: What'ya mean?
Mom: All these ads about Medicare, it's very confusing.
Man: I've read about it, what do you want to know?
Mom: What's the truth about Romney and Ryan?
Man: Well the Romney Ryan plan does essentially end Medicare, that's what the Wall Street Journal said.
Mom: I don't like the sound of that.
Man: What I read said seniors would wind up paying over $6000 dollars more per year.
Mom: That's a fortune to me.
Man: And Romney would make drastic cuts to Medicaid too, you know two-thirds of seniors rely on Medicaid for nursing home care?
Mom: Boy, that's scary.
Man: Here mom, I'm on my computer, go to this website, Medicare Romney Ryan Dot Com and have a look for yourself.
Mom: Okay hon, take care.
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No Harm (Michigan First Congressional District) http://youtu.be/BPgqOzn1rbo
First do no harm.
That's supposed to be the physician's creed.
So when he first got to Congress, why did Dan Benishek vote to end Medicare as we know it?
And stick seniors with a bill for sixty-four hundred dollars a year?
All while protecting tax breaks for millionaires?
Whatever happened to "Do No Harm"?
When it comes to protecting Medicare, Dan Benishek is a prescription for disaster.
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Closer (Virginia Second Congressional District) http://youtu.be/CTQoibncJTM
Take a closer look at Congressman Scott Rigell's record on seniors.
Rigell wants to raise the retirement age to 70.
He opposed Medicare prescription drug benefits...
And wants to end Medicare as we know it, costing seniors $6,400 more a year for healthcare.
And Rigell wants to cut Medicaid in half, denying long term care coverage for the elderly and people with disabilities.
For seniors, Scott Rigell is a tough pill to swallow.
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'The Hunger Games' starts shooting in North Carolina town, locals lose it
After all the anticipation of casting "The Hunger Games," the shoot is apparently ready to start rolling. So, where will Katniss call home for at least the week of May 19 to May 26?
According to the Hickory Daily Record, the film will set up camp in Hildebran, N.C. and the locals seem to be excited about Hollywood descending upon them despite some temporary road closures and other inconveniences in their daily lives.
According to locals, the film based on the Suzanne Collins young adult novel is going by the fake title, "Artemis," though townsfolk who have been dealing with the production confirm that it's "The Hunger Games." Apparently, the producers were looking for some "old mill villages." Sounds like Katniss and Peeta's District 12, no?
Local roads will be closed, causing difficulties for some, but the idea of having Tinsel Town there for a week has other residents buzzing.
"People around here are kind of excited about it," town clerk Ella Caudle tells the newspaper.
Even while the production asked officials to keep the shoot quiet, the news got out. Residents have apparently already created Facebook pages and websites in which to discuss the film.
So, who does it sound like the town is most excited about? According to the article, they were abuzz with the news of Stanley Tucci joining the production, though we're not sure if they'll actually see him. Correct us if we're wrong, but games interviewer Caesar Flickerman doesn't visit District 12 in the book. It's a been a bit since we read it.
At the very least, they may get a peek at lead actress, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson (who plays Peeta), and Katniss' sister and mom played by Willow Shields and Paula Malcomson, respectively.
Are you excited to hear that shooting is finally starting?
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Happy Valley-Goose Bay resident Lisa Connors spotted this black bear in a live trap outside Tim Horton's this morning. She feels it was not fair to the animal to be held in a public spot like that and believes it was stressing out the bear.
It certainly wasn't what Lisa Connors expected to see when she went for her morning coffee at Tim Horton's on Monday, Aug. 18.
The Happy Valley-Goose Bay resident had pulled into the establishment between 10:30 and 11 a.m. that morning, when she spotted what she thought — at first — was an empty live trap on a trailer, attached to a Department of Wildlife vehicle.
"But when I had a closer look, I could see there was a bear inside," said Connors.
"There was one Wildelife employee in the vehicle and the other was inside (Tim Horton's)."
Connors said although it was kind of scary to see, she was actually more concerned about the well-being of the bear.
"You could tell it was stressed out," she said. "It was rolling around and around the cage."
She said she was also concerned at the time of day in which this occurred.
"This was the probably the busiest time of the day, the line-up of vehicles at the drive –thru was out to the road."
Connors said it was 'ridiculous' to have a bear in a live trap in that public spot.
"I couldn't believe it. It wasn't fair to the animal at all."
A spokesperson for the Department of Natural Resources issued a statement to The Labradorian this morning, stating, "The Department of Natural Resources is aware of this situation. All matters of this nature are taken very seriously and we are addressing it internally."
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| Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, met and had talks with foreign guests who took part in the consultative meeting of senior officials of the international preparatory committee for commemorating the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Friday.
They are former Deputy President of the Senate of Nigeria Ibrahim Mantu, Chairman of the Kuwait-DPRK Friendship Association Yousef Al Amiri and Chairman of the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association Anders Kristensen, who are co-chairmen of the international preparatory committee, secretaries of the international preparatory committee Martin Lotscher, chairman of the Switzerland-Korea Committee, and Javed Ansari, secretary general of the Karachi Branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association, Raymond Ferguson, national secretary of the Australia-DPRK Association for Friendship and Culture who is vice-chairman of the Asia-Pacific regional preparatory committee, C.P. Mainali, general secretary of the C.C., the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) who is chairman of the Nepalese national preparatory committee, Sumiko Shimizu, representative of the Japanese Women's Society for Solidarity with the Korean Women who is chairwoman of the Japanese preparatory committee, and Alejandro Cao de Benos, chairman of the Korean Friendship Association headquartered in Spain who is chairman of the KFA preparatory committee.
Ibrahim Mantu expressed the will to make effort to significantly commemorate the centenary of birth of the President as a great international festival.
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Siemens VDO Developing Family of Hybrid Drives
26 September 2005
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Siemens VDO Automotive is developing a series of modular hybrid drives that will meet micro-, mild- and full-hybrid applications. The company is currently testing the micro and mild modules, and plans to have the full-hybrid drive with electrical outputs of up to 75 kW available by 2008.
The family approach strives to offer a set of modules—a kit of parts—from which vehicle manufacturers can select system solutions that best suit their advanced propulsion strategy needs.
Key to Siemens VDO's approach are extensions to its Integrated Powertrain Management (IPM) system—originally developed to coordinate engine and transmission control—which now include electric drive system control, enabling the entire drive train to be managed.
The micro hybrid uses an a belt-integrated starter/alternator motor, control unit and intelligent belt tensioner to provide stop-start functionality. The system utilizes the existing 14-volt on-board power supply.
For the mild hybrid application, the electric motor is located on the crankshaft between the engine and the transmission. Depending on design, start-stop and energy recovery functions are available when braking. The electric motor provides tractive support to the engine during acceleration.
Siemens tests in current demonstration vehicles have shown reductions in fuel consumption of up to 6% on the micro hybrid and from 15%–18% on the mild hybrid.
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