Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ryan has selected chronicle the ups and downs of a platonic affair between a lusty Latin-American general and his frigid English "governess," as she chooses to call herself. Two character traits come out of this union to comprise the main comic material, which is seldom funny: the governess' morbid preoccupation with her own death, and the general's sexual appetite. The rest of the play is mainly concerned with establishing the general's love for fine food and all the other things that spell Life...
...John Donne had a morbid obsession with death (". . . Never seek to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee") which prompted him to pose in a shroud for the sketch of his own monument, and keep the picture at his bedside until his death wish was fulfilled...