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Gilli Bush-Bailey
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
..., John ( Lun ) ( 1692–1761 ) English dancer, actor, and manager . The son of Christopher Rich , John took over the refurbished theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields on his father's death in 1714 . The elegant house with mirrored interior became the home of popular adaptations of Italian-style pantomime in which Rich excelled as Harlequin . The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus ( 1723 ) was his most successful pantomime and he spared no expense in providing spectacular costumes and scenery . In 1728 Rich premièred Gay 's Beggar's Opera...
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The Companion to Theatre and Performance
..., John ( Lun ) ( 1692–1761 ) English dancer and *actor-manager . The son of Christopher *Rich , John took over *Lincoln 's Inn Fields on his father's death. The elegant house with mirrored interior became the home of popular adaptations of Italian-style *pantomime in which Rich excelled as *Harlequin . The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus ( 1723 ) was his most successful and he spared no expense in providing spectacular *costumes and scenery. In 1728 Rich premièred *Gay 's Beggar's Opera , which ran for an unprecedented 32 nights....
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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
..., John ( c. 1692–1761 ), English actor and theatre manager, son of Christopher Rich (?– 1714 ), manager first of Drury Lane and then of the old Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre , which John inherited from him, and where he was responsible in 1728 for the production of Gay 's The Beggar's Opera . With the profits from this highly successful venture he built the first Covent Garden theatre, transferring to it the patent granted by Charles II to William Davenant , and opening it in 1732 with a company headed by James Quin . Though almost illiterate...
Rich, John (1691) Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...son-in-law, the singer John Beard , but his greater legacy was the training he gave and the example he set for a generation of mimes and dancers. See also Pantomime . Cibber, Colley . An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber . Edited by B. R. S. Fone . Ann Arbor, Mich., 1968. Davies, Thomas . The Life of David Garrick . London, 1784. Green, E.M. John Rich's Art of Pantomime . Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 4 (1965). Jackson, John . History of the Scottish Stage . Edinburgh, 1793. Sawyer, Paul . John Rich's Contribution to the...
Rich, John (?1692–1761) Reference library
Catherine Alexander
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
..., John ( ?1692–1761 ), manager , who inherited the patent of Lincoln’s Inn Fields from his father, Christopher, in 1714 and made the theatre the rival of Drury Lane through its pantomime playing style. In 1732 he moved to the new theatre in Covent Garden where the infamous Battle of the Romeos in 1750 was the most visible indication of his competition with Garrick . Catherine...
Rich, John J. S. (1691) Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.)
...Rich, John J. S. ( b c . 1691 / 2 ; d Hillingdon , 26 Nov. 1761 ) British mime and impresario . He was a highly successful author, producer, and actor of Harlequinades who was also responsible for bringing artists like Sallé and Noverre over to England. He inherited the patent of the Lincoln's Inn Theatre from his father in 1714 and staged his first pantomime there in 1716 . In 1728 he produced Gay's highly popular Beggar's Opera , the money from which enabled him to build Covent Garden in 1732...
John Rich
Henry IV Part 1 Reference library
Michael Dobson and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...for his absence from court, Sir John playing the King and urging the Prince to banish all his idle companions except Sir John. When they swap roles the Prince as King urges Sir John as Harry to banish Sir John, and hints that in time he himself will indeed do so. Nonetheless when officers come seeking to arrest Sir John and his associates for the robbery Harry protects them, concealing the fat knight behind an arras, where he falls asleep. Having sent the officers away on a false trail Harry picks the sleeping Sir John’s pocket and finds a bill for little...
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Rainer Riesner and Rainer Riesner
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...this is the privilege of God ( cf. Rom 14:4 ) who gave the law ( v. 12 ). Warning to the Rich ( 4:13–5:6 ) ( 4:13–17 ) Tomorrow Belongs to God This admonition resembles the polemic in 1 Enoch 97:8–10 and the parable of the rich fool ( Lk 12:16–21 ), the latter itself showing parallels to the Enochic tradition. In contrast to the rich in 5:1 the merchants here seem to be members of the community ( v. 13 ). Under Palestinian conditions they could try to become rich only through trade. Whereas the criticism of care about tomorrow may echo Jesus' teaching...
Much Ado About Nothing Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, Anthony Davies, and Will Sharpe
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...Davenant borrowed only Beatrice and Benedick from this play, their repartee decisively influencing the subsequent development of Restoration comedy. The play has been one of the most popular of the mature comedies since the mid-18th century, though it has never inspired as rich a critical literature as The Merchant of Venice , As You Like It , or Twelfth Night . Hazlitt praised Dogberry, regularly hailed since as an all too convincing depiction of petty officialdom, but from his day to this the main plot of the play has elicited little but...
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Malcolm Airs
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...and some private bodies, such as Sir John Soane's Museum in London and Worcester College, Oxford, have remarkably rich collections of original designs. Topographical views have always provided important visual evidence for the history of the house. Their picturesque qualities have meant that some quite humble dwellings have attracted the eye of the artist, but it remains a field that is largely the preserve of the grander house. M. W. Barley published A Guide to British Topographical Collections in 1974 , and John Harris , in The Artist and the Country...
Liberation Theology: Africa and the Bible Reference library
Gerald West
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...work needs to be done on how ordinary Africans interpret the Bible, how they ‘read’, whether literate or illiterate, matters in Africa because African biblical scholarship is inclusive of scholars and nonscholars, the rich and the poor. Noah, his family, the Ark and its animals. A linocut by John Muafangejo, 1979. © John Muafangejo Trust. This is not merely a nostalgic or romantic yearning for a lost naïveté; there are a number of sound reasons for this. First, because African biblical scholarship concentrates on the correspondence...
Twelfth Night Reference library
Michael Dobson and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...rechristened Orsino, Olivia, Viola, and Sebastian. Shakespeare, however, probably knew Gl’ingannati only at second or third hand, via prose versions in Bandello ’s Novelle ( 1554 ) and Belleforest ’s Histoires tragiques ( 1571 ) which were themselves adapted by Barnabe Rich in ‘Apollonius and Silla’, the second story in his Farewell to Military Profession ( 1581 ). The sub-plot of the gulled steward, however, has no such literary source, and attempts to identify Malvolio as a hostile portrait of a particular Elizabethan courtier have been...
The Four Gospels in Synopsis Reference library
Henry Wansbrough
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...(as Zacchaeus repents, and as is stressed in the mass conversions of Acts. Secondly, when they accept the call they leave ‘everything’, a total renunciation often stressed by Luke ( 14:33 ): Levi at his call leaves all ( 5:28 ), and the very rich young ruler is advised to sell everything he has ( 18:23 ). 5. John's account of the call of the first disciples is significantly different: (a) Again there are two pairs of disciples, to the first pair of whom Simon Peter is attached. The identity of the first disciples is, however, different. The first pair...
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Margaret Davies
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...who could read or write (most people would come to know texts from hearing them read) meant that collections of manuscripts were made under the patronage of rich rulers in cities like Athens, Alexandria, and Pergamum, or in cultic centres where priests could read and write, as in the temple at Jerusalem. Other religious communities could acquire and preserve texts with the help of patrons, but only very rich individuals would own texts and keep them at home. Two forms of texts were used in the early Christian era: the scroll, written in columns along its longer...
Medicine Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...Revolution, vitriolically attacked the British medical profession represented by prestigious figures such as the brothers William and John *Hunter as a mere ‘sick trade’, cashing in on the new opportunities for advancement that medicine offered, not least by whipping up health anxieties. Beddoes portrayed a conspiracy between fashionable patients and toadying practitioners who would endorse the cranky health ideas of their rich patients. This cry could be heard well into the Victorian era amongst doctors like the Guy's Hospital lecturer Thomas Hodgkin (...
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Dobrava Moldanová
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
...its distinguishing function. Thus individuals were recognized by diminutive modifications of their first names. Already in the 15th century the name Jan (John) had numerous variations and derivatives, including Janoušek , Janák , Jeníček , Janota , Jantásek , Janek , Jech , Ješ , and Jíša , most of which are found as regular surnames in modern Czech. Other given names had an equally rich variety of derived forms, giving rise to surnames. Typically, individuals were also distinguished by the name of their father, or occasionally by that of their...
Popular Culture Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...and expressions of all three mark a confluence-point where orality and print, canonical literary works and street genres, combined and exchanged in complex ways. According to his Autobiographical Fragments ( 1821–8 ) John Clare regarded Helpstone as an ‘unlettered’ village, yet there he was able to nourish his imagination on a rich pabulum of both print and orality. As well as the standard village staples of the Bible, *hymns , weekly *newspapers , and *almanacs , he frequently listened to his father hum songs from penny songbooks like Robin Hood's...
Design Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...made designs for the Carron Iron Works in Falkirk, where his brother John was a partner, ensuring the spread of anthemion motifs on everything from railings to fire-grates. Mrs Eleanor *Coade 's famous artificial stone was employed by all the leading architects for outdoor ornament; she in turn based her designs on the Adams' work and on other reference books and imported antiquities, as well as employing the sculptor John Bacon ( 1740–99 ) to make designs in the neoclassical style. John Mayhew and William Ince 's partnership in the second half of the...
The Bible in the Eastern Churches Reference library
George Bebawi
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...to Capharnaum in relation to the difficulty we mentioned earlier concerning the forty days of the temptation which can have no place at all in John. For if it occurred six days after the time when he was baptised, since his ministry at the marriage at Cana of Galilee took place on the sixth day, it is then clear he has not been tempted, nor was he in Nazareth, nor had John yet been delivered up. ( Commentary on John, x. 10, Eng. trans. The Fathers of the Church, 80, 256) The words of Origen are clear. Origen does not dismiss the problem and the reliability...
