Unit 4: Vocabulary from Readings

This list covers "The Inspector-General" and "Romeo and Juliet Over the Centuries."
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  1. anonymous
    having no known name or identity or known source
    In deepest incognito, first by express train, then along back roads, Pyotr Pavlovich Posudin was hastening toward the little town of N, to which he had been summoned by an anonymous letter.
  2. trundle
    move slowly or heavily
    [Enter the Driver, a peasant, who climbs onto the cart, so that he is sitting with his back to us, and the cart begins to trundle slowly away from us.]
  3. discreet
    not easily noticeable
    [The Traveler discreetly pushes the traveling bag out of the Driver’s sight.]
  4. cunning
    marked by skill in deception
    Very cunning—you were saying.
  5. opera
    a drama set to music
    Charles Francois Gounod’s opera Romeo and Juliet, composed in 1867, is the most famous operatic version of Shakespeare’s ultimate love story.
  6. musical
    a play or film containing singing and dancing numbers
    Leonard Bernstein’s 1957 musical West Side Story moved the setting from Verona to New York City and changed the warring families into rival street gangs.
  7. ballet
    a theatrical performance of a story by trained dancers
    Romeo and Juliet, a ballet in three acts composed by Serge Prokofiev, had its world premiere in 1965 and starred Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.
  8. choreograph
    compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music
    A 1966 video is available, as well as a 1982 version choreographed by Nureyev.
  9. film
    a series of moving pictures that tells a story
    The romantic film version of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 and starring teenagers Olivia Hussey as Juliet, and Leonard Whiting as Romeo, is the most popular Shakespearean movie of all time.
  10. rock
    a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s
    A new rock musical of Romeo and Juliet, composed by Jerome Korman and Terrence Mann, and directed by Mann, had its debut onstage in 1999.
  11. archetype
    something that serves as a model
    An archetype is a type of character, image, theme, symbol, plot, or other element that has appeared in the literature of the world from ancient times until today.
Created on Tue Feb 23 08:38:00 EST 2021 (updated Wed Mar 03 15:36:54 EST 2021)

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