By Jove, Biggles!: Life of Captain W.E.Johns

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Meanwhile, performers SJ Brady, Sinead Costelloe, and Rosa Whicker moved around their performance spaces, sometimes closer to the camera and sometimes further away, offering a tantalising glimpse into the private space of Medea’s unhappy home. Not only productions but rehearsals and development sessions have had to be cancelled or postponed, and many theatre professionals are still out of work. The letter “i” was both a consonant and a vowel; as a consonant, it sounded like the English letter “y. The outcome of our experimentation with digital performance had to be putting it out there for people to see.

By Jove is founded by the collective cast and crew of Electra-Orestes, a piece commissioned by Royal Holloway Classical Society.The exclamations “by Jove” and “by Jupiter” eventually filtered into poetic and literary English, but they were not euphemisms at first, since they invoked the name of an actual Roman deity.

I would presume there are more such chapters, but I cannot say at present what percentage each approach comprises. The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW) commission a new version of Euripides’ Bacchaefor performance at Senate House library in November.Our shows combine text, music, and movement, and we like to perform in unexpected spaces – libraries, converted factories, art galleries – to connect with the local communities in which those spaces are situated. Director David Bullen used the capabilities of the streaming platform Streamyard to move the Medeas around the screen, with blank screens appearing for the voices of Jason and other characters that are not embodied; the Medeas seemed to be circling, trapped in an inescapable situation and closing in on acts of terrible violence.

While beginning to develop a new project, By Jove collaborate with UCL and the Institute of Classical Studies to produce one-off poetry events Homer’s Womenand Weaving Women’s Storiesrespectively. In the heart of Asia on September 26, 1946, Colonel Olrik is preparing to lead an armada of bombers to set the capitals of the free world ablaze . It’s a very British expression (as indeed is your haven’t a clue and your reference to I know a man who can, a current advertising slogan from the Automobile Association). Today, we’re going to talk about the origins of “by Jove” so you, too, can sound all fun and old-timey.Wendy led us through a number of writing exercises exploring mundane scenarios from the perspectives of mythic characters—a theme we’re keen to explore in the Orestes project, as we look for the quiet human moments in the grand tragic narrative. By þe goddesse Mynerue And Iuppiter þat maketh þe þonder rynge … ye be the womman … That I best loue. in England, Captain Francis Blake and Professor Philip Mortimer are determined to lead the resistance! Free Bets are paid as Bet Credits and are available for use upon settlement of bets to value of qualifying deposit.

Ellipsis of a full oath of the form "I swear by Jove that…" Originally a literal oath; later a minced oath. The shows were presented by much loved ventriloquist Ray Alan and his celebrated companion Lord Charles and filmed in full colour. It is a big help to everyones memory who had latin and or greek in his schooldays a long time ago and more. It’s women only, and as they unite in ecstatic transcendence, Agave begins to lose her grip on reality. Contributions included creative uses of screen-sharing, virtual backgrounds, point-of-view video, music performed live over a pre-recorded reading, and much more—and showed us that technology that may on the surface seem to restrict movement, dynamism, and emotional connection can, in fact, be incredibly stirring and explore ‘liveness’ in all sorts of ways.The performance was followed by a post-show discussion with theatre and classics academics and practitioners; both are still available to view on YouTube (with closed captions available). This approach will make mythology interesting for those who have already read too many standard mythology books and may make remembering the myths easier as it ties them to words the reader may already know. In the fourteenth century, when the English started saying “by Jove,” it was a way to say “my god” or “good god” without blaspheming the Christian god. However, we haven’t discussed “by Jove,” which wasn’t a euphemism when it first showed up in English. Paul’s Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly, Hyde Park and The Tower Of London), Oxford, Henley, Cliveden House, Windsor and The Isle Of Man.