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A Rake's Progress (or The Rake's Progress) is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth. [1] The canvases were produced in 1732–1734, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735. [2] The series shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son and heir of a rich merchant, who comes ...
Rake (stock character) In a historical context, a rake (short for rakehell, analogous to "hellraiser") was a man who was habituated to immoral conduct, particularly womanizing. Often, a rake was also prodigal, wasting his (usually inherited) fortune on gambling, wine, women, and song, and incurring lavish debts in the process.
Rake is the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game. It is generally 2.5% to 10% of the pot in each poker hand, up to a predetermined maximum amount. [1] There are also other non-percentage ways for a casino to take the rake. [citation needed]
Rake is an American comedy-drama television series and an adaptation of the Australian series of the same name, both of which are created by Peter Duncan. Duncan served as series producer with, among others, star Greg Kinnear , Peter Tolan , and Richard Roxburgh , on this version for Fedora Entertainment, Essential Media , and Sony Pictures Television .
The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto , written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman , is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735) of William Hogarth , which Stravinsky had seen on 2 May 1947, in a Chicago exhibition.
Rake is an Australian television program, produced by Essential Media and Entertainment, that first aired on the ABC TV in 2010. It stars Richard Roxburgh as the rakish Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but self-destructive Sydney barrister, [1] [2] [3] defending a usually guilty client. The fifth and final series went into production in October 2017 ...
The Unfortunate Rake. " The Unfortunate Lad ", also (mostly erroneously) [1] known as " The Unfortunate Rake ", is a ballad ( Roud 2, Laws Q26), which through the folk process has evolved into a large number of variants, including allegedly the country and western song "Streets of Laredo". [2]
Rake angle. A schematic showing positive (left) and negative (right) rake angles. In machining, the rake angle is a parameter used in various cutting processes, describing the angle of the cutting face relative to the workpiece. There are three types of rake angles: positive, zero or neutral, and negative . Positive rake: A tool has a positive ...