The Cotton Club (film) The Cotton Club (film) The Cotton Club is a 1984 American crime-drama film centered on a Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club. The film was co-written (with William Kennedy) and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, and Lonette McKee. The supporting cast included Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Laurence Fishburne, Gwen Verdon and Fred Gwynne. The film was noted for its over-budget production costs, and took a total of five years to make. Critical reception was mostly positive and "The Cotton Club" was
Four Plays in One most masque-like, even to the point of featuring an anti-masque. Since Ben Jonson effectively invented the anti-masque in "The Masque of Queens," which was performed and published early in 1609, it seems unlikely that "Four Plays in One" could be earlier than that. As its title indicates, "Four Plays in One" is composed of a quartet of short plays; it takes the form of an "Induction" that sets up a frame play, followed by four plays-within-a-play, titled "The Triumph of Honor, The Triumph of Love, The Triumph of Death," and "The Triumph of Time." These dramatic techniques were rare but