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    three plays are The Pilgrimage to Parnassus The Return from Parnassus The Return from Parnassus: Or the Scourge of Simony The second and third plays are...
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  • Look up Parnassus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mount Parnassus is a mountain in Greece, sacred in mythology and a metaphor for the arts and learning...
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    The Parnassus (Italian: Il Parnaso, referring to Mount Parnassus) is a fresco painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael in the Raphael Rooms...
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    and processed. In war, Parnassus has been a center of resistance if need be, providing cover and refuge to partisans. Parnassus is mentioned in early Ancient...
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  • Parnassus says he has lost "another one" to Mr. Nick, a suave personification of the Devil, who often taunts Parnassus and gloats over Parnassus's failures...
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    by this plight for ambitious graduates is the basis for the three Parnassus plays, which were written by Cambridge students in their last year. This...
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    William Shakespeare (category King's Men (playing company))
    "the most excellent" in both comedy and tragedy. The authors of the Parnassus plays at St John's College, Cambridge, numbered him with Chaucer, Gower,...
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  • academics deplored); he had previously been ridiculed in the third of the Parnassus plays. In Ignoramus, Brackyn is given a romance of false loves; he is enamored...
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    Parnassus is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, executed in 1497. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The Parnassus was...
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    Oxford and Cambridge. A well-known play cycle which was written and performed in the universities was the Parnassus Plays. Upon graduation, many university...
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    Return from Parnassus, two separate characters refer to Shakespeare as "Sweet Mr. Shakespeare", and in The Second Part of the Return from Parnassus (1606)...
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    Dekker's News from Hell (1606), and is referred to in the anonymous Parnassus plays (1598−1602), which provide this eulogy: Let all his faultes sleepe...
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    Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, a Terry Gilliam Film". Smart.co.uk. 25 January 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2011. Stubbs, Phil. "The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus". Dreams...
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    Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, playing Valentina, the teenage daughter of Christopher Plummer's title character, Dr Parnassus, whom Parnassus has promised to...
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    Parnassus or Apollo and the Muses is an oil painting by Nicolas Poussin, from c. 1631-1633. It was inspired by the famous Raphael's Parnassus in the Stanza...
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    Corycian Cave (category Mount Parnassus)
    antron) is located in central Greece on the southern slopes of Mount Parnassus, in Parnassus National Park, which is situated north of Delphi. The Corycian...
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    Marlowe was the anonymous author of the Cambridge University play The Return from Parnassus (1598) who wrote, "Pity it is that wit so ill should dwell,...
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    San Francisco Mayor Adolph Sutro donated 13 acres in Parnassus Heights at the base of Mount Parnassus (now known as Mount Sutro). The new site, overlooking...
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  • Oxford. The plays produced at Oxford were originally written in Latin, based on classical models. Used to teach playwriting and acting, these plays were written...
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  • listenings will be warranted". Club Parnassus expressed their admiration of the subject matter saying "... if there’s a stage play out there featuring the wild...
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  • (82nd) 0 2 Sherlock Holmes 2009 (82nd) 0 2 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 2009 (82nd) 0 2 The Last Station 2009 (82nd) 0 2 The Messenger 2009 (82nd)...
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    forced a separation of the red Apollo butterfly population. This in turn played a role in creating the distinct colour changes seen in the species. The...
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  • Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Both The Hole and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus were given screenings at the 2009 Toronto International...
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    depicting mythological themes from Ovid's Metamorphoses including Pegasus, Parnassus or Jupiter. It is presumed that Giambologna was inspired by the description...
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  • April 2012). "Poetry Parnassus to gather poets from every Olympic nation". The Guardian. "World Poetry Summit at Poetry Parnassus", British Council. Neil...
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    long poem, the Viaje del Parnaso (Journey to Parnassus); and Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses (Eight Plays and Eight Interludes). The novel Los trabajos...
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  • graveside policeman, and also played the role of a policeman in another 2009 release, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Cartwright also had a role in...
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    Electra (section Plays)
    Electra from being killed by his mother, and was taken to Phanote on Mount Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of him. When Orestes was twenty, the...
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    that he had a share in the anonymous The Pilgrimage to Parnassus and the Return from Parnassus. The beauty and ingenuity of The Parliament of Bees were...
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    precinct occupies a delineated region on the south-western slope of Mount Parnassus. It is now an extensive archaeological site, and since 1938 a part of...
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