Now available in paperback; Days on Earth--originally published in 1988 (Yale University Press)--traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey; Marcia B. Siegel follows Humphreys career from her days with the Denishawn Company (among fellos students like Martha Graham) to her creative partnership with Charles Weidman to her tenure as artistic director of proteacute;geacute; Joseacute; Limons dance company. Siegels reconsideration and description of Humphreys dances; including many that are no longer performed; sheds important light on this pathbreaking dancer/choreographer.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. it could have been written better. The author repeats the same points over and ...By MandogirlAlthough this book is interesting; it could have been written better. The author repeats the same points over and over again.8 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Who Shook That Spear?By Sharpe IdeasThis subject is off-putting. Didnt we get our Shakespeare done in high school? Why bother with it now? Heres why: the person who wrote these plays and poems did more for Englands lasting prestige and prominence than any other. He added some 17;000 words to our vocabulary; and these eventually turned Enlish from an almost vulgar tongue to the lingua franca of the world. Why the identity problem? Politics. Queen Elizabeth wanted no talk of a successor; so this was always a hot topic. Many lost their head over it. The man who actually wrote these plays was a member of the nobility and often at court; he knew what was going on.The plays outrageous additions and omissions; inspiring action and elegant dialogue show a well-educated and deeply involved nobleman. But this stuff was too hot to handle; coming from the inner circle; so a decoy was needed. The politicians did a good job there. But lets get past that and see the canon for what it is: hot history beautifully crafted! This slim volume opens the case for de Vere.20 of 28 people found the following review helpful. A fine digest of the Authorship ControversyBy FilmGalRichard Whalens highly-acclaimed book is the best summary account of the Authorship Question in print. Whalen is careful to limit his study of the Shakespeare Authorship Controversy to a judicious survey of established facts and reasoned analysis; his concise and conservative assessment of the likelihood that the poems and plays of the great Elizabethan Spear-shaker were pseudonymously composed by Edward de Vere; 17th Earl of Oxford; rather than Gulielmus Shakspere; an uneducated butchers apprentice from Stratford-Upon-Avon; is compelling. Accordingly; I commend the work to all who are interested in reviewing the principal tenets of the Authorship Question; this book is a fine introduction to anyone curious about who the unseen writer was who published his plays and poems under the pen name name of "William Shake-speare."
