To burn with jealous heart, or not to burn, I ask the question sinking into glum; In such emotion deeply drowned, I yearn, I pray, for skills, like His, to me would come. This envy pierced my soul, like rolling tear would leave a trace to mark a saddened face. As good as him,…
In my first blog post I presented the elements of a Victorian Governess Novel and wrote about Charlotte Brontë’s intentions with her famous book, Jane Eyre. I also researched and described the life of real governesses in the Victorian period with the help of M. Jeanne Peterson’s work on the subject. Now I will use…
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.” /Victor Hugo/ As a singer I am convinced of the significance of music, but I have always been curious about its objective power in various aspects of life. I am amazed by the fact that music not only enchants one for a short period of time, but it…
Nowadays several people encourage their children to go to nursery schools where they learn English and later, some of these children will also go to bilingual schools. Why is this so important? When it comes to second language learning in order to increase success, it could be fruitful to pay attention to individual differences. It…
After having analysed a great amount of literature about the characteristics of culture, cultural awareness and music as a useful teaching tool, I felt that it is worth investigating the topic from different points of view: the teachers’ opinions about the importance of learning culture and integrating culture into the foreign language classroom, and ways…
Could it be that Film is perhaps easier to interpret than most of Beckett’s work owing to the fact that there is also a sort of ‘manual’ for its understanding? I am, of course, talking about its screenplay written by Beckett himself. Alas, the situation is not that simple. We cannot equate the screenplay…
A review of Szkéné Theatre’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (dir. Szikszai Rémusz) by Bozóki Vivien Concerning Tom Stoppard’s rather absurd play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, I would hardly dare to declare anything. Hardly anything, except for the following: the performance at Szkéné Theatre, on the 12th of October 2015,…
A review of Szkéné Theatre’s production of Paul Foster’s Elizabeth I (dir. Szikszai Rémusz) by Bánovics Nóra Paul Foster’s Elizabeth I is not a well-known play. It was written in 1972 but it was not and is not performed frequently even nowadays. Yet we can see it here in Hungary, in one of the smallest…
A review of Örkény Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (dir. Bagossy László) by Bozóki Vivien Shakespeare’s Hamlet played in a modern age can bring some surprises. Especially if it’s played in Örkény Theatre. For example, I would never have thought that Hamlet could be performed in an unchanging set that is a stadium for the whole time of the performance,…
People tend to imagine that learning a second language as an adult is not as easy as learning it at an early age. However, as specified by some studies, we acquire a second language more or less the same way as the mother tongue. Contrary to this, the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) states that there…
Do you ever wonder what the life of working women, especially governesses was in the nineteenth century? To what extent is one of the most popular novels on the life of a governess, Jane Eyre, a reliable source? These are the questions I would like to answer in this two-part series. A governess as main…
Szűk közösség a műfordítóké, de korántsem zárt, ellentétben a közhiedelemmel. Többek közt ezt is megtapasztalhattuk 2017 júliusában, Nagyváradon, az ötödik alkalommal megrendezett „Hét nap, hét darab” néven futó drámafordító műhelyen. Újfent fény derült arra, hogy nem könnyű munka a műfordítás, sőt, gyakorlatilag egy teljes életforma-váltást követel meg az embertől – még akkor is, ha viszonylag…
Hét nap, hét darab – ötödik drámafordító műhely. A második számomra, és az első, amikor Nagyváradon vehettem részt. A hosszú utat és a korai indulást Somló tanárnő gyorsan könnyedebbé tette, hiszen a Keleti pályaudvaron a korábbi évek fordításait tartalmazó, hamarosan megjelenő kötettel várt minket. Ez a könyv egész hétre megadta nekünk az inspirációt, kinek azért,…
“The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.” – Andy Warhol We rarely think about how daring and provocative people already were half a century ago. My aim is to challenge this and show you, through the art of Andy Warhol and Maria Lassnig, the boldness artists exhibited within the field of…
