Jupiter was the Roman god of the sky, the sovereign deity who had powers over both gods and men (he was later identified with the Greek Zeus). In the heart of Asia on September 26, 1946, Colonel Olrik is preparing to lead an armada of bombers to set the capitals of the free world ablaze… "By Jove ! I would presume there are more such chapters, but I cannot say at present what percentage each approach comprises.

Jove is the older name the Romans had for the god Jupiter (which derives from an alteration of Jovis pater, father Jove).The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Although Bacchae is another work of Greek tragedy, this production is designed more closely to evoke the ancient oral poets who performed long tales such as the Iliad and Odyssey ; SJ Brady performs the text solo, from memory, focusing on Agave but giving voice to a range of characters and utilising repeated linguistic motifs. LoveArts, a monthly new writing night featuring music, spoken word, poetry, and drama, comes to the Gallery Café, Bethnal Green, for a six-month season. A vengeful god with a flair for the dramatic indulges her resistance to her son’s oppressive nature, and before she knows it she’s living in the wild. Lord Charles sets the tone with a rousing patriotic speech that “We are living in a touring paradise ” before embarking on a whistlestop tour of the whole country – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – with his erstwhile chauffeur Cavendish played by Roddy Maude-Roxby.

Q: In your “by George” article, you fail to mention that the expression “by Jove” was probably a precursor to “by George. Since 2011, I’ve been a part of By Jove Theatre Company , a theatre collective with a feminist, socialist ethos that tells old stories in new ways. By Jove begins a Season of Violent Women, a series of week long takeovers of The Gallery on the Corner in Battersea, with Margaret of Anjou, a new take on Shakespeare’s She-Wolf of France. Lord Charles casts his beady eye over and passes his inimitable comments on places such as :- Cambridge, Newmarket, Norfolk Broads, Burnham Thorpe, Chatsworth House, North Yorkshire Moors, Robin Hood’s Bay, Newcastle, Inverness, Edinburgh, the Highlands (Lochs, Whiskey Distillery, Birdwatching, Angling and Golfing), Antrim and Londonderry in Northern Ireland, The Giant’s Causeway, The English Lakes, Tenby and Portmeirion in Wales, Stratford-on-Avon, Bath, Land’s End, Torquay, Boscastle, Mousehole, Plymouth Hoe, Lulworth Cove, London and The Thames (Hampton Court, St.The narrative form of Greek tragedy deals with the moments of crisis in longer mythic narratives: each play tells a story almost in real-time, with characters forced to confront their own actions or those of others that have, almost always, led to death. The exclamations “by Jove” and “by Jupiter” eventually filtered into poetic and literary English, but they were not euphemisms at first, since they invoked the name of an actual Roman deity. Meanwhile, performers SJ Brady, Sinead Costelloe, and Rosa Whicker moved around their performance spaces, sometimes closer to the camera and sometimes further away, offering a tantalising glimpse into the private space of Medea’s unhappy home. It has also been linked to Jehovah, a form of the Hebrew name of God used in some translations of the Bible.