But, as I was saying, Richard, or was about to say, my daughter has been allowed to rust; her aunt was a mere
duenna; hence, in parenthesis, Richard, her distrust of me; my nature and that of the
duenna are poles asunder - poles!
"That is true," said Maritornes; "and, faith, I relish hearing these things greatly too, for they are very pretty; especially when they describe some lady or another in the arms of her knight under the orange trees, and the
duenna who is keeping watch for them half dead with envy and fright; all this I say is as good as honey."
Here I am, till my
duenna finishes her business and fetches me.
No want of understrappers: my sister desires her love, and hopes to be admitted into the company, and will be happy to take the part of any old
duenna or tame confidante, that you may not like to do yourselves."
The other, of mature age, seemed to have the former one under her charge, and was cold, dry and yellow -- the true type of a
duenna or a devotee.
Looking down, the moon, your devoted
duenna, is wrapped in her dark mantilla.
(13) At Blithedale, Zenobia is aware that Priscilla is entering the same perilous phase of development and offers herself as a maternal figure, one that she lacked in adolescence: "[Y]ou are getting to be so very pretty that you absolutely need a
duenna; as I am older than you, and have had my own little experience of life, and think myself exceedingly sage, I intend to fill the place of a maiden-aunt" (3: 77).
Accompanying Bira had been his older cousin, Prince Chulachakrabongse, his quieter, more restrained
duenna in the curious West.
The libretto was by Carlo Francesco Badini of Turin who openly acknowledged that he had based this on The
Duenna by Sheridan, to whom he dedicated it.
The trio of scheming women was completed by the accomplished comic actor-singer of Larisa Diadkova as The
Duenna.
Dashed off to hear two acts of Prokofieff's The
Duenna (57) at the Riga Opera.
(10) Between the Jew Bill and Cumberland's comedy in 1794, there had been a host of rabidly anti-Jewish plays, including Richard Brinsley Sheridan's now forgotten ballad-opera The
Duenna. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice was also revived and regularly performed at Drury Lane, where actor Charles Macklin famously represented Shylock year after year as a figure of "fiend-like malice, outrageous cruelty" and "diabolical joy in human misery." (11) As a result, The Monthly Review pointed out in 1795 that "few people perhaps now hear a Jew mentioned, without thinking of the cruel Shylock or the cunning little Isaac," (12) the latter being the Jew in Sheridan's
Duenna.