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This awareness of his age, his accomplishments, as well as his shortcomings recurs throughout the collection. Williams’ reflections on his work more often than not lead him to a kind of melancholy. In “Apes,” he wonders, “Could I have...
In the opening number, “Prologue: Into the Woods,” the fairy tales inhabit separate areas downstage, in front of a flat, black backdrop. It is only once they venture into the woods that the characters’ paths begin to cross and the familiar stories...
In no poem is the evolution of self-doubt more apparent than in “I,” in which Williams directly addresses the idea of lyric subjectivity. After referring to Goethe as “One of those ‘I’s who aren?...
But even amidst his contemplations of selfhood and subjectivity, Williams also continually returns to the vivid observations that give his work such buoyancy. In “Riot,” Williams evokes the music of dawn’s approach after a tumultuous, sleepless night: “The...
The Witch, whose curse the Baker and his Wife are trying to undo, undergoes a more dramatic physical and emotional transformation. Her role is also perhaps the most vocally taxing, a responsibility which Megan L. Amram ’10 pulls off with ease. Amram is by turns menacing, sympathetic...