Word: hausfraus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alkmena was probably one of the few hausfraus in ancient drama. She was, as she says, just a middle-class mortal. Following this tradition, Giradoux's Alkmena is a tender, faithful, loving wife with no desire to fulfill her destiny with Bulfinch's mythology. In the role, Anna Prince was all that Giradoux requires and brought, in addition, a certain luxuriousness to the part that added immeasurably to the play. Unfortunately, however, Miss Prince is not always understandable. Striving for variety in her voice, some of her lines became lost in a flood of sheer inflection. With that corrected, Miss...