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...world of Off-Broadway seems an improbable setting for Al fred, the world of Anglo-Saxon epics would appear even more so. Why Beowulf for a would-be dramatist? "I deliberately chose it to be that way. I wanted to go into a field where I wouldn't be too self-conscious about modern literature. I didn't want to use all my energies explaining dramatic techniques rather than doing them." He switched to Anglo-Saxon thesis work after abandoning an 18th Century project. "I was supposed to edit the papers of an 18th Century Earl who was a friend...
Joel Schwartz's last play, Mine Eyes See Not So Far, was a long tortuous examination of single character heightened by a fantasy play-within-a-play. His latest offering, Touch, takes on a whole family with much of the same dramatist's skill, more humor, but unfortunately less discipline. Despite Eyes' inordinate length, the various parts were pulled together in a complex web; in Touch there are scenes which are merely extraneous and sometimes distracting from the main action of the play. This state of affairs is doubly frustrating since parts of Touch are not merely good, but excellent...
...Nature, Education, Theology, Political Economy, and the Self. In the published sections, specific opponents are ceaselessly pitted against each other (codification clashes with the Common Law, revivalism with orthodoxy, etc.) while more transcending combat takes place in the background (the head against the heart, union against division). Always a dramatist, Miller emphasizes again and again the outcome toward which these conflicts move, and a great heavy sense of the coming of the Civil War shapes the book's inexorable progress toward tragedy. Miller skillfully does not mention the war at all except as the denuement left unwritten, the climax which...
Goethe was a notable philosopher, a crack professional scientist, a successful political administrator, a stylist second to none in German literature, a major novelist and dramatist, and probably the most richly expressive lyric poet who ever lived-a genius who differed in kind but not in degree from Dante and Shakespeare. He wrote a hundred times more than either of them-his collected works fill 150 volumes-and consequently more of what he wrote is dated; The Sorrows of Young Werther, for instance, reads in this unsentimental century like soap opera written in gold ink. But his finest works-Iphigenia...
...celebrated by the Egyptians as the bird of the sun, the lion of the sky. It was known to the Greeks as the emissary of Zeus, and blamed in their legends for the death of Aeschylus -an eagle, the story goes, mistook the bald head of the dramatist for a stone and dropped a turtle on it. It is most familiar to Americans as the heraldic symbol on the U.S. Seal of State. But the real-life eagle beggars all symbolic descriptions, and of all the species that survive, the most impressive is the golden eagle...