Word: euripidean
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There was something about Eugene O'Neill's dour eminence as the trailblazer of serious American drama that made his critics and colleagues want to crack wise. While he toiled to bring Euripidean depth and grandeur to domestic melodrama, the nimble midgets in attendance played at defacing his stature. Strange Interlude ran for 4 1/2 hours and an impressive 426 performances; road companies packed the provinces for three seasons after its 1928 opening; the play brought O'Neill his third Pulitzer Prize, and sped him on to a Nobel in 1936. And still the jesters japed. Critic Alexander Woollcott, noting...
Caldwell's most moving and Euripidean moments come when she cradles and fondles the two young sons she has borne Jason, then steels herself to kill them in a monstrous act of revenge against their father. From moment to moment she is wretchedly torn between maternal love and a scorned woman's hate...
...TROJAN WOMEN. The keening eloquence of body, mind and speech that graces this superb revival of the Euripidean classic is the unsellable cry of tragedy...
...TROJAN WOMEN, directed by Michael Cacoyannis from a translation by Edith Hamilton, gives U.S. theatergoers a rare sense of the power, agony, and cyclonic passion of the Euripidean classic. It movingly depicts the fate of a handful of proud women terrifyingly caught in the tormenting clutch of war and their Greek conquerors...
...TROJAN WOMEN, directed by Michael Cacoyannis from a translation by Edith Hamilton, gives U.S. theatergoers a rare sense of the power, agony, and cyclonic passion of the Euripidean classic. It movingly depicts the fate of a handful of proud women caught in the tormenting clutch of war and their Greek conquerors...