Word: aeschylus
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Tennessee Williams stands in an apostolic succession from Aeschylus in that slender company of men who, by vocation, are destined to write high drama. Within his own life span, Williams' characters, scenes and lines have become part of the civilized world's fabric. But Williams is a lyric playwright. and these prose memoirs, no matter how candid, cannot quite resolve the mystery of his artistic gifts Since he writes as naturally as birds fly (one of his nicknames is "Bird"), the book is immensely readable as well as valuable. It radiates good humor, randiness, poignancy and a gallant...
...plausible theory: not only had Homer never written anything before the Odyssey; he had not read anything before it. This puts Erich Segal way ahead of any preliterate Greek singer. Segal has not only written other works, including Love Story; he has apparently ransacked every Homeric adaptation from Aeschylus to James Joyce for this musical production, Odyssey. "Why copy when you can steal?" he asks in a program footnote to the execrable production at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington...
...know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon...
...movie gold prospector, but with enticing houris, underworld strong-arm men, termagants, drunks and, finally, the haughty, unamused Pluto (Jerome Dempsey), god of the underworld. It seems that Shakespeare sits on the throne of honor as the No. 1 dramatist in Hades. (In Aristophanes' original it is Aeschylus.) A battle royal of quotations ensues between Shakespeare (Jeremy Geidt) and Shaw (Anthony Holland). The chorus of jurors votes against Shaw on the grounds that he is a dry, cerebral rationalist while Shakespeare is the archpoet 3 of the human soul...
...mystical profundities, there are references to a death symbol known as the Black Rabbit and stories-within-the-story concerning a rabbit folk hero called El-ahrairah. There is a brief glossary of rabbit terms. The quotations at the head of each chapter derive from Aeschylus, Xenophon, Pilgrim's Progress, Morte d' Arthur. But otherwise Watership Down offers little to build a literary cult upon. On the American-whimsy exchange, one Tolkien hobbit should still be worth a dozen talking rabbits...