DOCSLIB.ORG

Atlantic Crossings

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Atlantic Crossings PILGRIM H OPKINS H ERITAGE S OCIETY ATLANTIC C ROSSINGS ENGLAND ~ BERMUDA ~ JAMESTOWN ~ ENGLAND ~ PLYMOUTH Mayflower Sea Venture VVVOLUME 1, I SSUE 1 SSSUMMER 2007 The English Origins of Stephen Hopkins ith its eighteenth century beth (Williams) Hopkins. By W brick porch, its twelfth his first wife, Agnes (Borrowe) century blocked doorway and Hopkins, John had two other sixteenth century tower, the All children, William Hopkins Saints Church lies in a meadow (1575) and Alice (1577/8), on the River Anton in Upper Stephen’s older half brother and Clatford, Hampshire, England. half sister respectively. The parish register of this Christensen spent seven years church contains what is very The parish register of the All Saints Church, Upper researching 137 parish records probably the baptismal record Clatford, Hampshire County, England contains and other sources in Hampshire Stephen Hopkins’ baptismal record. of Mayflower passenger to come up with these and addi- Stephen Hopkins: His research results, published tional findings. His work 1581: Stephen the son in The American Genealogist builds on that of Caleb Johnson of John Hopkins the last 79 (October 2004), indicate that (see p. 7). In The American Ge- of April Stephen and his sister Susanna nealogist 73 (July 1998), John- This record was unearthed by Hopkins (baptized in 1584) son publishes baptismal entries Hopkins descendant Ernest were the children of John Hop- of Stephen’s first three children Martin Christensen of Florida. kins and his second wife Eliza- continued on page 4 The Hopkins/Shakespeare Connection t is widely thought that the The Sea Venture , carrying board was the I ill-starred voyage of the Sea some 150 crew and colonists, “admiral of Venture inspired Shakespeare’s was the flagship of a fleet of the flotilla”, play The Tempest . The real seven ships and two pinnacles Sir George Stephen Hopkins, aboard the owned by the Virginia Com- Somers. Sir Sea Venture when it sailed from pany of London. This was the Thomas Gates, also on the Sea Plymouth for Jamestown on “Third Supply Relief Fleet”, Venture , had been appointed June 2, 1609, might even have whose mission was to bring Governor of the colony of Vir- had something to do with the fresh supplies and additional ginia. The boat was com- character “Stephano, a drunken colonists from England to the manded by Captain Christopher Butler”, in this famous play. Jamestown settlement. On continued on page 5 AAATLANTIC C ROSSINGS Message from the Governor he last 18 months has ter have agreed to be co- Positions Available T been a rocky start for our editors of our newsletter. association. Hopefully now with the as- n September 2008 we will Our Historian Loren Somes sistance from our primary I elect new officers for the has had health issues and has founder Susan we are back on PHHS. Positions available in- moved back to New England track. We are, however, still clude that of Governor, Deputy but is still not on line yet. looking for someone who can Governor, Treasurer, Corre- Jackie Sheldon, our Corre- take over the position of Cor- sponding Secretary, Historian, sponding Secretary has sub- responding Secretary. and three assistants. The dura- mitted her resignation for per- tion of office is three years. sonal reasons and my wife To indicate your interest in Catherine has agreed to act as filling any of these positions or interim secretary until we can to find out more about them, find a replacement for Jackie. contact Susan Abanor at (All correspondence should be [email protected] addressed to Catherine Hop- or write to her at: kins at 80 Keene Woods Rd. Susan Abanor Damariscotta, ME 04543; e- 14 W. 17 th St., Apt. 11-S mail [email protected]) Governor Chester I. Hopkins New York, NY 10011 Susan Abanor and Judith Bris- From the Editors ith genealogy and fam- Stephen Hopkins heritage. Shakespeare page 1). It was W ily history, you never First, a word about the news- after returning to England a few know what you’ll find. We letter’s name. Atlantic Cross- years later and remarrying that might wish we could control ings was chosen to highlight he arranged for passage for who our ancestors were or what one of Hopkins’ distinguishing himself and his family on the they did, but we can’t. Very attributes. When he reached Mayflower. often they surprise us. This is Plymouth in 1620, Hopkins was As to the newsletter’s specific especially so with Stephen among just a few aboard the purposes, it will strive to bring Hopkins. The more we learn Mayflower and the only passen- you news of Pilgrim Stephen about him, the more unexpected ger to step on American soil for Hopkins Heritage Society ac- twists and turns of his life we the second time. In 1609 he tivities, past and planned. It discover. had already landed in James- should also become a vehicle We go to press with this inau- town, following a voyage for sharing lineage information gural issue of Atlantic Cross- across the Atlantic from Eng- and questions, as well as re- ings in the hopes that, with your land on the Sea Venture , a ship- search projects, findings and help, it will become a useful wreck, a sojourn in Bermuda, controversies (your contribu- networking and information- and a final voyage to Virginia tions welcome!). A regular sharing tool as we broaden our on a small vessel built by the knowledge of our Pilgrim castaways (see Hopkins/ continued on page 4 PPPAGE 222 Page # VVVOLUME 1, I SSUE 1 First Gathering Photograph * 11 September 2005, Plymouth, MA continued on page # 1. 15. 29. Art Young 2. Annette Sechen 16. Eleanor Johnson 30. Ryan Tobin 3. Jay Ceran 17. Carole Dilley 31. 4. John H. Nardozzi 18. Peter Johnson 32 . 5. 19. Loren E. Somes 33. Jenny Vittum Tobin 6. Margery Ceran 20. Catherine Hopkins 34. 7. Tracy Dielman 21 35. 8. Susan B. W. Abanor 22. Chester I. Hopkins 36. Shirley Vittum 9. 23. Harold S. A. Woolley 37. Susan P. Baker 10. Elizabeth A. Mac Lean 24. 38. Faith Edwards 11. 25. 39. 12. 26. 40. Barbara Dillon 13. Judith Brister 27. 14. Bea Brown 28. *If your name was missed, please help us fill-in the blanks by contacting Susan Abanor PPPAGE 333 AAATLANTIC C ROSSINGS English Origins From page 1 found in parish registers of Hursley, Hampshire, some fifteen miles from Upper Clatford. Hop- kins had these children with his first wife, Mary, who died in 1613 (presumably while Hopkins was in Virginia). The three Hursley-born chil- dren were Elizabeth (1604), Constance (1606), and Giles (1607). By his second wife, Elizabeth after his return to England, he had seven addi- tional children: Damaris, Oceanus, Caleb, Deb- orah, Damaris, Ruth, and Elizabeth. Johnson’s article also reproduces the estate in- ventory from the probate record of Mary Hop- kins in 1613. Some of the inventory items make clear that Mary and Stephen were shopkeepers. The estate inventory also indicates that Mary was a widow, which Johnson attributes to the fact that at this time Hopkins was in Virginia but pre- sumed dead. Johnson speculates that, “..the court or parish might well have found it expedient to assume he was dead in order to make the prop- Location of town where Stephen Hopkins was baptized. erty available for his children’s support…”. Courtesy of Google Maps For those who want the latest research on Hop- kins’s English roots, the above two articles are kins descendants, they may even inspire a so- “must reads”. And for the really dedicated Hop- journ into the Hampshire countryside. From Editors but was a “stranger”. In Plymouth, he had several From page 2 brushes with the law. Over the years, he did ap- parently gain respect for his courage and for his feature will be “Letters from readers”. Another diplomacy with the Native Americans, and be- will be “Increasings and Decreasings” (i.e., births came a community leader. It is our guess, how- and deaths) of Society members. Finally, we in- ever, that he remained an independent-minded vite you to submit brief stories that shed light on maverick to the end. In keeping with Hopkins’ the lives and times of Hopkins and his descen- character, we’ll do our best to keep this newsletter dants. This material should serve to flesh out the lively. social history of the Hopkins family, both in New These are our initial thoughts on the aims and England and as members spread out into the rest the shape of Atlantic Crossings . We’re always of the country – and beyond. We suspect these open to your suggestions on improvements. Your stories will prove to be a fascinating slice of our feedback and contributions are vital to making country’s social history.* Atlantic Crossings a success. In terms of style and tone, we’d like the news- Susan Abanor and Judith McLoud Brister, Co- letter to be as far from the staid and stuffy as was editors our colorful common ancestor. Stephen Hopkins, *Send contributions to: it bears remembering, led a mutiny in Bermuda. Susan Abanor,14 West 17th Street, New York, He was not among the “saints” on the Mayflower, NY 10011 or [email protected] PPPAGE 444 Page # VVVOLUME 1, I SSUE 1 Hopkins/Shakespeare pany. He notes that Shakespeare’s patron, the From page 1 Earl of Southampton, was one of the promoters of the Virginia Company, and that Strachey Newport, who had led the first expedition to moved in Shakespeare’s literary circles. Stra- Jamestown two years before. Twenty-eight year chey had in fact been a shareholder in an acting old Hopkins was clerk to the ship’s chaplain.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The History of the Jamestown Colony: Seventeenth-Century and Modern Interpretations
    The History of the Jamestown Colony: Seventeenth-Century and Modern Interpretations A Senior Honors Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for graduation with research distinction in History in the undergraduate colleges of the Ohio State University By Sarah McBee The Ohio State University at Mansfield June 2009 Project Advisor: Professor Heather Tanner, Department of History Introduction Reevaluating Jamestown On an unexceptional day in December about four hundred years ago, three small ships embarked from an English dock and began the long and treacherous voyage across the Atlantic. The passengers on board envisioned their goals – wealth and discovery, glory and destiny. The promise of a new life hung tantalizingly ahead of them. When they arrived in their new world in May of the next year, they did not know that they were to begin the journey of a nation that would eventually become the United States of America. This summary sounds almost ridiculously idealistic – dream-driven achievers setting out to start over and build for themselves a better world. To the average American citizen, this story appears to be the classic description of the Pilgrims coming to the new world in 1620 seeking religious freedom. But what would the same average American citizen say to the fact that this deceptively idealistic story actually took place almost fourteen years earlier at Jamestown, Virginia? The unfortunate truth is that most people do not know the story of the Jamestown colony, established in 1607.1 Even when people have heard of Jamestown, often it is with a negative connotation. Common knowledge marginally recognizes Jamestown as the colony that predates the Separatists in New England by more than a dozen years, and as the first permanent English settlement in America.
    [Show full text]
  • Discord, Order, and the Emergence of Stability in Early Bermuda, 1609-1623
    W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 1991 "In the Hollow Lotus-Land": Discord, Order, and the Emergence of Stability in Early Bermuda, 1609-1623 Matthew R. Laird College of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Laird, Matthew R., ""In the Hollow Lotus-Land": Discord, Order, and the Emergence of Stability in Early Bermuda, 1609-1623" (1991). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539625691. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-dbem-8k64 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. •'IN THE HOLLOW LOTOS-LAND": DISCORD, ORDER, AND THE EMERGENCE OF STABILITY IN EARLY BERMUDA, 1609-1623 A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of History The College of William and Mary in Virginia In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Matthew R. Laird 1991 APPROVAL SHEET This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Matthew R. Laird Approved, July 1991 -Acmy James Axtell Thaddeus W. Tate TABLE OP CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................................... iv ABSTRACT...............................................v HARBINGERS....... ,.................................... 2 CHAPTER I. MUTINY AND STARVATION, 1609-1615............. 11 CHAPTER II. ORDER IMPOSED, 1615-1619................... 39 CHAPTER III. THE FOUNDATIONS OF STABILITY, 1619-1623......60 A PATTERN EMERGES....................................
    [Show full text]
  • And Margaret Atwood's Novel Hag-Seed
    The textual conversation between William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest (1611) and Margaret Atwood’s novel Hag-Seed (2016) positions readers to realise how individuals must move on from the past in order to achieve fulfilment. Readers recognise how introspection and accepting the past is necessary in order to reconcile with loss and how to achieve freedom, individuals must overcome their restrictive, seemingly predestined capacities. Atwood’s appropriation of The Tempest allows contemporary audiences to gain true insight into the timeless values of self-reflection, reconciliation and challenging one’s destiny. The textual conversation between The Tempest and Hag-Seed facilitates readers’ appreciation of how introspection and accepting the past is necessary in order to reconcile with loss. In The Tempest, Shakespeare advocates how Prospero’s introspection as he moves on from his preoccupation with revenge, prompts compassion and forgiveness. Shakespeare responds to the rise of Renaissance Humanism during the Jacobean Era, celebrating human control over one’s fate and display of virtues such as empathy and self-enquiry. Shakespeare characterises exiled Duke of Milan Prospero as unwilling to acknowledge how his usurpation by his brother Antonio resulted from preoccupations with magic as he accuses Antonio of being the metaphorical "ivy which had hid my princely trunk” to emphasise his loss and victimise himself. Shakespeare establishes Prospero’s anger towards his past betrayal in the supernatural stage directions [Enter several strange shapes, bringing in a banquet…] and [...the banquet vanishes], revealing how he uses magic to humiliate and punish the shipwrecked Royal Court. However, Shakespeare exposes how Prospero’s belief that revenge is justified is challenged by spirit Ariel in “if you now beheld them, your affections would become tender….
    [Show full text]
  • A Jungian Interpretation of the Tempest
    University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 1978 A Jungian interpretation of The Tempest Tana Smith University of the Pacific Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds Part of the Literature in English, British Isles Commons Recommended Citation Smith, Tana. (1978). A Jungian interpretation of The Tempest. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1989 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A JUNGil-..~~ INTERPllliTATION OF THE 'rEHPES'r by Tana Smit!1 An Essay Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School Univers ity of the Pac ific In Pa rtial Fulfillment of the Requireme nts for the Degree Maste r of Arts Hay 1978 The following psychological interpretation of Shakespeare's 1 The Tempest is unique to articles on the ·same subject which have appeared in literary journals because it applies a purely Jungian reading to the characters in the play. Here each character is shown to represent one of the archetypes which Jung described in his book Archetypes ~ the Collective Unconscious. In giving the play a psychological interpretation, the action must be seen to occur inside Prospera's own unconscious mind. He is experiencing a psychic transformation or what Jung called the individuation process, where a person becomes "a separate, indivisible unity or 2 whole" and where the conscious and unconscious are united.
    [Show full text]
  • ISC Program 16 Web Version+One
    RICHARD GRIFFITH PARK FREE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL JUNE 25 - SEPT 4 the TEMPEST INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO. SHAKESPEARE SET FREE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO. / GRIFFITH PARK FREE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Recently, a long time audience member, Frank Lopes, shared a celebrates Shakespeare’s stories and language, the natural beauty sonnet that he wrote about a tree. of the park, and the communion between the audience and the players that takes place night after night. It’s a lovely tree--in fact, you can see it right now, from where you It is a gift to create theater for the Los Angeles community, and our are sitting. If you’re looking towards the Festival stage, it’ s just to efforts are reciprocated tenfold. You really are the engine that pow- the left. Before a performance, you’ll often find actors and audi- ers the Festival. Your financial donations keep the Festival running. ence members sitting under it, enjoying the shade: Your generosity of spirit when we meet you after performances (or Into the sky towards providence do reach onstage at intermission) is deeply moving. We love taking pictures The wise and solemn bows of mighty tree. with you, chatting with you season after season--and in some And when night’s air of summer words do breech, cases, watching you grow up! Those magic words of past set people free. Oh,Tree! What beauty hast thou witnessed here? Every so often a pizza is delivered to us backstage, or a plate of Of lives, of loves, of kingdoms lost to dust, cookies, or a bottle of champagne.
    [Show full text]
  • Shakespeare Uncovered Viewing Guide
    © 2013 WNET. All rights reserved. Teaching Colleagues, Shakespeare Uncovered, a six-part series airing on PBS beginning on January 25 th , is a teacher’s dream come true. Each episode gives us something that we teachers almost never get: a compelling, lively, totally accessible journey through and around a Shakespeare play, guided by brilliant and plain-spoken experts--all within one hour. I’m not given to endorsements, but oh, I love this series. Why will we teachers love it and why do we need it? • Because, as we learned from the very start of the Folger Library’s Teaching Shakespeare Institute, teachers tend to be more confident, better teachers if they have greater and deeper knowledge of the plays themselves. • Because no matter what our relationship with the plays – we love them, we struggle with them, we’re tired of teaching the same ones, we’re afraid of some of them – we almost never have the time to learn more about them. We are teachers, after all: always under a deadline, we’re reading, grading, prepping, mindful of the next deadline. (And then there’s the rest of our lives . ) Shakespeare Uncovered is your chance to take a deep, pleasurable dive into a handful of plays—ones you know well, others that may be less familiar to you. In six episodes, Shakespeare Uncovered takes on eight plays: Macbeth, Hamlet, The Tempest, Richard II, Twelfth Night and As You Like It, Henry IV, Part I, and Henry V . The host of each episode has plenty of Shakespeare cred--Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Joely Richardson and her mom, Vanessa Redgrave, for example--but each wants to learn more about the play.
    [Show full text]
  • Tempest Pdf, Epub, Ebook
    TEMPEST PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Mercedes Lackey | 394 pages | 06 Dec 2016 | DAW BOOKS | 9780756409036 | English | United States Tempest PDF Book Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, — The chastity of the bride is considered essential and greatly valued in royal lineages. Pure singleplayer Want to be a lone sea wolf? HeroCraft PC. Sign In Sign in to add your own tags to this product. National Council of Teachers of English. In , Derek Jarman produced the homoerotic film The Tempest that used Shakespeare's language, but was most notable for its deviations from Shakespeare. The Tempest was one of the staples of the repertoire of Romantic Era theatres. Ariel was—with two exceptions—played by a woman, and invariably by a graceful dancer and superb singer. Tempest is for anyone who is done with alcohol or wants to be done with alcohol, for anyone who wants to change how they see themselves and their possibilities in life. Without these features the characters of the new fonts are similar each other. Pick a Plan Choose the level of support you need from our three membership options. Pirate cooperation Share the world of Tempest between you and your friends. This article is about the Shakespeare play. Shakespeare remakes. Upon the restoration of the monarchy in , two patent companies —the King's Company and the Duke's Company —were established, and the existing theatrical repertoire divided between them. Gonzalo's description of his ideal society 2. At least two other silent versions, one from by Edwin Thanhouser , are known to have existed, but have been lost.
    [Show full text]
  • The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism
    SYDNEY STUDIES The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism G. A. WILKES If the study of Shakespeare itself can be viewed as an act of cultural imperialism, a play like The Tempest can readily be seen as a text which is complicit with colonial power. Prospero is the usurping invader, nervous about the legitimacy of his rule, and Caliban is the representative of the subjugated race, his language lessons seen as an attempt to eradicate his own culture, or to bring it under imperialist control. The best way of entry into this debate is still Stephen Greenblatt's essay of 1976, 'Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century', though its implications may not yet have been fully grasped. l Greenblatt begins with the prospect held out in Samuel Daniel's Musophilus (1599), that in the New World the 'unknowing Nations' are to be enriched with 'the treasure of our tongue', and in this vast civilizing process of the future, who can say What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours? Greenblatt cites Spanish, Portuguese and English authorities to show the assumptions that underlie or accompany this prophecy: that the inhabitants of the new world were without a culture of their own; that they had no language, or else language at the level of gibberish; that they might conform to European conceptions of the Wild Man, or that they might be hardly distinguishable from beasts. Although Greenblatt adduces The Tempest for its exploration of these issues, he does not fit it to any paradigm.
    [Show full text]
  • Margaret Atwood's Prose-Fiction Novel Hag-Seed
    How does Hag-Seed bring new meaning to The Tempest in terms of reconciliation? Margaret Atwood’s prose-fiction novel Hag-Seed (2016) both extends upon and problematises William Shakespeare’s tragicomic play The Tempest (1611), exploring the complexity of reconciliation by asserting that although it may go against our human tendencies, it is essential to overcoming our self-imposed human weakness. In The Tempest, Shakespeare suggests the importance of reconciliation through Prospero’s ultimate forgiveness of his usurpers, reiterated by Atwood who suggests that reconciliation continues to be fundamental in a modern context. However, Shakespeare justifies the oppression and imprisonment of Caliban contradicting the notion of reconciliation, with Atwood problematising this representation by asserting that the reconciliation of society and the imprisoned is also vital. Thus, Atwood’s reinterpretation of the canonical text goes beyond a spatial- temporal and generic shift, bringing new meaning to Shakespeare’s representation of reconciliation through an exploration of its difficulty, but importance to the human experience. Prospero’s obsession with attaining immoral vengeance through means of ‘rough magic’ emphasises the necessity of reconciliation and compassion in order to transcend human weakness. Prospero’s vindictive position as the ‘Prince of Power’ is demonstrated as Prospero malevolently manipulates the royal court in order to re-achieve his Dukedom. Prospero deceives Alonso in believing that Ferdinand had perished at his hands, with Alonso’s repetition of ‘O, it is monstrous, monstrous’ not only demonstrating the extent of Prospero’s abuse, but also suggesting that the conjurer himself, may be monstrous. However, Prospero ultimately comes to realise his own obsession with revenge and wrongdoing through the symbolic double entendre: ‘this thing of darkness I acknowledge mine’, referring both to Caliban and also Prospero’s own capacity for evil.
    [Show full text]
  • Theme Source Flow
    Virginia & other New World reports Shakespeare’s Tempest (Echoes of Thessalonians in this typeface) Voyage of the Sea Venture • Flagship separated from fleet • Deafening thunder, darkness; howling Hurricane, wreck on Bermuda, • Ship leaking, fear of splitting social turmoil, capable leadership, • Safely lodged in rock crevice organized effort, and deliverance • Beauteous, spirit-infested, storm-prone island • “Still-vexed Bermudas” St. Paul, 2 Thessalonians Governor labors like others, both in the • Low and high conspiracies to remain on storm and ashore the island, usurp the leadership + Geneva Bible comments Governor could have led by authority, but • Resistance to work did better by setting an example • Romantic fantasies of paradise No shame for leaders to work: “… Behavior of nobles in the storm blatantly we wrought with labor & travaile opposite to that of Strachey’s leaders night & day…” • Prince carries logs, makes sport of it Better to lead by example: “Not but • Contrasted with Caliban that we had authority, but that we John Smith & his allies • Ariel works with good will vs. under compunction might make ourselves an example “proper gentlemen …making it their delight unto you to follow us.” to hear the trees thunder as they fell” Caliban: “I must eat my dinner” Bad to be a useless burden: “… we “gentlemen … doing but as the president” Miranda: would not be chargeable to any of • ”Invader” in ruler’s power; Labor turned to sport you.” daughter physically intercedes No work, no food: “…If there were “Labors of 30 or 40 honest and industrious • Invader plots to marry daughter any which would not work, that he men shall not be consumed to maintain and supplant ruler should not eat” 150 idle varlets” • 13-14 years old “He that will not work shall not eat” • “Nonparell” “… none ought to live idly, but ought to give himself to some vocation, to Pocahontas event details, both real and get his living by, and to do good to slanderous rumor (Smith to marry & rule) others.” “Man not born for himself alone” [Plato via St.
    [Show full text]
  • “Flowers in the Desert”: Cirque Du Soleil in Las Vegas, 1993
    “FLOWERS IN THE DESERT”: CIRQUE DU SOLEIL IN LAS VEGAS, 1993-2012 by ANNE MARGARET TOEWE B.S., The College of William and Mary, 1987 M.F.A., Tulane University, 1991 A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Colorado in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Theatre & Dance 2013 This thesis entitled: “Flowers in the Desert”: Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas 1993 – 2012 written by Anne Margaret Toewe has been approved for the Department of Theatre & Dance ______________________________________________ Dr. Oliver Gerland (Committee Chair) ______________________________________________ Dr. Bud Coleman (Committee Member) Date_______________________________ The final copy of this thesis has been examined by the signatories, and we Find that both the content and the form meet acceptable presentation standards Of scholarly work in the above mentioned discipline. iii Toewe, Anne Margaret (Ph.D., Department of Theatre & Dance) “Flowers in the Desert”: Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas 1993 – 2012 Dissertation directed by Professor Oliver Gerland This dissertation examines Cirque du Soleil from its inception as a small band of street performers to the global entertainment machine it is today. The study focuses most closely on the years 1993 – 2012 and the shows that Cirque has produced in Las Vegas. Driven by Las Vegas’s culture of spectacle, Cirque uses elaborate stage technology to support the wordless acrobatics for which it is renowned. By so doing, the company has raised the bar for spectacular entertainment in Las Vegas I explore the beginning of Cirque du Soleil in Québec and the development of its world-tours.
    [Show full text]
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare
    The Tempest by William Shakespeare Audience Guide researched and written by the Education Department of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Cover art by Scott McKowen The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey THE TEMPEST: Audience Guide InThis Guide – Shakespeare’s Romances ..................................................................................................................... 2 –The Tempest: A Synopsis ....................................................................................................................... 3 –The Tempest: Sources and History of the Play ....................................................................................... 5 – John Clements on The Tempest ............................................................................................................ 6 – Who’s Who in The Tempest .................................................................................................................. 7 – Glossary of Words and Phrases ............................................................................................................ 8 – Commentary and Criticism .................................................................................................................. 9 – In This Production .............................................................................................................................. 10 – Food for Thought................................................................................................................................ 11 – Explore
    [Show full text]