Word: lucretia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Karim's interaction with Lina Bryan-Toledo, who plays Cenci's wife, Lucretia, is stilted as well. There is no rapport between the only female characters in The Cenci; in fact, as Lucretia paces mechanically back and forth across the set, she seems to be quite unaware that Beatrice is standing, raped, violated and stiff-shouldered, in the center of the stage...
While in London, she met a young Quaker woman from Philadelphia, Lucretia Mott, who had also been barred from the slavery convention. The two of them talked of staging a meeting of their own some day to protest discrimination against women. Eight years passed; then Stanton, living in Seneca Falls, N.Y., heard that Mott was visiting near by. The two got together and decided to organize their meeting. As an agenda, Stanton boldly updated the Declaration of Independence as drafted by Thomas Jefferson. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," said the Stanton version, "that all men and women...