Word: daydreamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know in the second act where to have the play. Ethel's snakelike husband calls her a mock Lady Macbeth. She has married this Harold Carter, older and colder than herself, for security, and hopes of seeing the world. To get her, he deluded her with a daydream of life in India. Now that he knows she will never love him, he poisons her daydreams. Their mutual hate-although the play does not quite show how-becomes their bond. Through a lover she contrives his murder...
Burns Mantle: "Dramatization of a daydream...