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A Respectable Wedding is a short play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht.The German title Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit literally means the petit bourgeois wedding.. Like other of Brecht’s early works (Baal, Drums in the Night, and The Threepenny Opera), A Respectable Wedding is seen as a critique of bourgeois society.
Typefaces based upon their style of writing appear late in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Contemporary revivals of formal script faces can be seen in Kuenstler Script and Matthew Carter 's typeface Snell Roundhand. These typefaces are frequently used for invitations and diplomas to effect an elevated and elegant feeling.
Humanist minuscule is a handwriting or style of script that was invented in secular circles in Italy, at the beginning of the fifteenth century. [1] ". Few periods in Western history have produced writing of such great beauty", observes the art historian Millard Meiss. [2] The new hand was based on Carolingian minuscule, which Renaissance ...
A Levée underway in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, 1903.King Edward VII is seated on the throne, the Royal Company of Archers stand guard.. The levee (from the French word lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising") [1] was traditionally a daily moment of intimacy and accessibility to a monarch or leader, as he got up in the morning.
Spanish. English. ¡Qué hacer! is a 1972 Chilean-American drama film directed by Raúl Ruiz, [1] Nina Serrano, and Saul Landau. [2] According to co-director Nina Serrano, "The formal script in the first draft was written by Saul Landau, Raul Ruiz, and Jim Becket. But as the film was somewhat improvised the actors and I also added or molded the ...
Serifs originated from the first official Greek writings on stone and in Latin alphabet with inscriptional lettering—words carved into stone in Roman antiquity.The explanation proposed by Father Edward Catich in his 1968 book The Origin of the Serif is now broadly but not universally accepted: the Roman letter outlines were first painted onto stone, and the stone carvers followed the brush ...
Petit Livre d'Amour. The miniature on f. 6r. The Petit Livre d'Amour (British Library Stowe MS 955) is a collection of love poems (also known as Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour), written in c. 1500 by Pierre Sala [fr] (1457–1529), an antiquary and valet de chambre of Louis XII.
Small caps, petite caps and italic used for emphasis True small caps (top), compared with scaled small caps (bottom), generated by OpenOffice.org Writer. In typography, small caps (short for small capitals) are characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters but reduced in height and weight close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures. [1]