"Improvement" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A valuable addition made to property (usually real estate) or an amelioration in its condition, amounting to more than mere repairs or replacement of waste, costing labor or capltal, and Intended to enhance lts value and utility or to adapt it for new or further purposes. Spencer v. Tobey, 22 Barb. (N. Y.) 269; Allen v. McKay, 120 Cal. 332, 62 Pac. 828; Simpson v. Robinson, 37 Ark. 132
The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion
in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration;
as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
The act of making profitable use or applicaton of
anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good
account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory,
stated in a discourse.
Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings,
clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine,
manufacture, or composition.
Increase; growth; progress; advance.
The state of being improved; betterment; advance;
also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on
the old.
To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.
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