Word: hearbreak
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...whose cataclysmic effects were very much realized by its contemporaries--has caused some critics to feel that the weird household represents the disintegrating pre-war society in microcosm. In the sense that the play portrays a group of people, suspended and enclosed while their world slips away from them. Hearbreak House resembles the works of Anton Chekov. In the play's preface, Shaw expresses the desire to write "a fantasia in the Russian manner." A mixture of mystery and melancholy, Hearbreak House could be described as something of a cross between Agatha Christie and Chekhov...
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