Word: plantagenet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lunar Caustic, Lowry uses his secondary characters effectively to expand upon and control the main autobiographical figure, William Plantagenet, a young Englishman and a drunk, who is committed temporarily to Bellevue Hospital in New York. In the central conversation between Plantagenet and the Doctor, Lowry plays the Doctor's practical, mindlessly psychologistic comments against Plantagenet's solipsism. At the same time, however, the Doctor's words serve as a kind of objective warning against the distortions implicit in Lowry's habit of creating only autobiographical characters...
...such exchange, Plantagenet raises the common Lowry theme of the struggle for regeneration...
...Fight, fight, fight . . . that's all you ever do, Dick Plantagenet." Virginia Mayo to Laurence Harvey in King Richard and the Crusades...
Since Henry II could not possibly recognize himself or his brood in Goldmancolor, the playgoer should not strive to do so. Winter is rather a day in the life of that boisterous Plantagenet family in the little 12th century castle halfway down the next block. It is Christmas Eve, and a spat is in progress. That is what the play is, an interminable family spat. The three boys, or brats, want Daddy's crown, and they sulk and scream over it as if it were the prize in the Cracker Jack box. Daddy wants Mommy's booming piece...
...lack of precedent for declaring that the baby bastard has a cause of action should not be a deterrent to such ruling," ruled Judge Squire, quoting the late jurist, Sir Percy Winfield: "If that were a valid objection, the common law would now be what it was in the Plantagenet period." The state's motion that the bastard's case, if tried and won, would leave the courts open to an endless array of claims Judge Squire dismissed just as swiftly. This approach is "unrealistic, illogical and unsupportable," said he. "Tangential reasoning should not be utilized to destroy...