These Romans, however grand, keep their eyes on the material prizes; even the famous, sentimental quarrel scene between Brutus and Cassius is partly a row about money and seniority.
Everyone attends to their tasks with great energy, if not much in the way of detailed personality, and some outrageous gymnastics, including a quarrel scene in which the scorned Hermia (Ms. Kanter) is literally flipped into the air and out of sight.
This reaches a climax as Greene intercuts fictional moments of a scripted quarrel, "behind the scenes" footage of an argumentative Sheil having difficulty nailing the performance and later feeling self-doubt about understanding the role.
(The Dickinsons, Emily included, were never quite as proper as they seemed; beneath their clannish façade of stiff-necked gentility roiled a soap opera of mad scenes, quarrels, and illicit passions. All of them, Wineapple writes, "loved with greedy ardor").
In "The Tyrolean Shepherd and Swiss Milkmaid," for example, he was joined by his wife, Louisa Woolford; while standing on the backs of their circling horses, the two performed the pursuit and wooing of a "fair peasant," complete with a lovers' quarrel and reconciliation scene, followed by an exquisite pas de deux.
Mr Erdogan has vowed to replace the constitution, but he is widely suspected of cutting deals with the generals behind the scenes.Quarrels between Turkey's soldiers and its civilian rulers are nothing new.
But the emotional and dramatic heart of the movie is the modest home where Cecil and his wife (Oprah Winfrey) quarrel, dance, drink and entertain, scenes which provide a rare and vivid picture of middle-class African-American life during a tumultuous period in history.
But the emotional and dramatic heart of the movie is the modest home where Cecil and his wife (Oprah Winfrey) quarrel, dance, drink and entertain, scenes that provide a rare and vivid picture of middle-class African-American life during a tumultuous period in history.
When she does go more legibly representational, as in "The Quarrel," it looks like a scene lifted from a Renaissance painting.
"The book is very cinematic in some ways," Mr. Haythe said, pointing to a few scenes, like a roadside quarrel between Frank and April, that practically contain their own stage directions.
