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...Henry Hewen (Saturday Review) hailed Kopit as a "new playwright of extraordinary skill, perception, and brilliance." He wrote that "what is original with him is the area he so brilliantly, entertainingly, and cruelly explores," and called the play's current production "the most exciting theatre the Phoenix has produced in several seasons...
...great thinkers of his day, from Sir Christopher Wren to Sir Isaac Newton. In time he lost his estates, was reduced to living on handouts. He died hoping that some "Ingeniose and publick-spirited young Man" might one day "polish and compleat what I have delivered rough hewen." Aubrey confessed that his frank sketches contained things "that would raise a Blush in a young Virgin's cheeke," and urged the sewing-on of "some Figge-leaves...
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