William Godwin was a controversial British thinker and philosopher whose radical and anarchistic beliefs reflected the idea that all monarchies were "unavoidably corrupt" and that no person should have power over another. He objected to most social insti...
The English political theorist and writer William Godwin (1756-1836) was a libertarian anarchist and utopian proponent of a natural, rational, secular society. William Godwin, son of an Independent minister, was born on March 3, 1756, at Wisbeck, Cambrid...
Over a writing life of more than fifty years William Godwin produced a huge body of work, including histories, biographies, pamphlets, treatises, memoirs, plays, children's books, essays, and novels. His reputation, however, has always rested on two work...
IMOGEN HEAP January 11 Avalon THE SOUND OF THE CITY The voice of Frou Frou twiddles knobs, decorates hardware HIDE AND SEEK London-based electropop lady Imogen Heap does a pretty good job disguising her hardware. Onstage, inside Avalon's...
ZANY, SAUCER-EYED and elastic-faced, Imogene Coca was a diminutive comedienne and actress whose performances with Sid Caesar in the television series Your Show of Shows in the early Fifties have become the stuff of legend. Coca could satirise anyone, from housewife to society...
"Cymbeline" is quite possibly Shakespeare's strangest creation.Not really a comedy, a tragedy or a historical drama, the play has bits of all three, which may be why directors like it. It's easier to impose their own vision on its unruly plot.And Mark Lamos, who directed...
Mel Tolkin, the head writer for Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows," which defined the art of sketch comedy during television's Golden Age, has died. He was 94.Tolkin died of heart failure on Monday at his Century City home, said his son, writer-director Michael Tolkin.Tolkin...