Sentence examples for of the fourth act from inspiring English sources

Shylock came perilously close to wrecking the comic structure of the play, a structure that Shakespeare only barely rescued by making the moneylender disappear for good at the end of the fourth act.

Think, for example, of the fourth act of The Merchant of Venice, in which the characters gather to determine whether Shylock shall have his pound of flesh from Antonio.

Through attention to pace and energetic speaking, note-by-note Shakespeare can still be made to work, as it does in Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford's three-hour The Winter's Tale, the opening production of Branagh's new West End season, but even that staging struggles with the lumbering rustic interlude of the fourth act.

Dido's Carthage is a colourful, terracotta kingdom, in which a model of the city, like a north African Bekonscot, is the focal point; it's suspended over the stage to suggest the moon of the fourth act, and lies broken in half in the final one, when Aeneas and his retinue leave.

"Womanizer" was also performed at the Femme Fatale Tour (2011) as the last song of the fourth act.

Of course, as we are somewhere in the middle of the fourth act of this tragedy, we look to Maine, where typically, one of the state's two Senators pop up to inject themselves into the storyline, momentarily transfixing everyone, only to eventually fade away again.

Consider the end of the first act.

It occurs near the end of the first act.

It succeeds fitfully, after the inanities of the first act.

A full-bore argument consumes much of the second act.

All those variations are part of the second act.