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It was J. Robert Oppenheimer himself who chose the code name "Trinity" for the 1945 test of the atom bomb he had done so much to create. He would say later that he was inspired by a line from the poet John Donne: "Batter my heart, three-personed God...
Margaret Edson’s “W;t” follows the cancer treatment of the ironically named Dr. Vivian Bearing, a professor of 17th century literature specializing in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Dying of ovarian cancer, Bearing (Heather Boas) distances herself from the horrific eight...
Although the play ultimately endorses Susan and Ashford’s humanistic viewpoint as both a reading of Donne and a way of life, leading to a dramatically powerful ending (though Boas, understandably if disappointingly, elects not to disrobe for her death scene), the overall tone of the drama avoids...
“W;t” is rich in intellectual exercises, inviting the viewer to pick up a highlighter and compare its structure to that of a sonnet by Donne, but these puzzles are more interesting than the somewhat simplistic questions of philosophy or the realistic but unsympathetic and...
CONCERTO DI DONNE