Word: semimodern
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...story of a man who is beloved for spendthrift indulgence of his friends, then abandoned the instant his considerable fortune is gone, has been set in the jazz age and augmented with music by Duke Ellington. The semimodern dress and judicious pruning of the most convoluted language makes the text accessible, and its cynicism about the rich is timeless. But the play's rage depends in large part on the context of classical notions about the sacred nature of hospitality. These ideas of mutual obligation, almost unto ruin, were antique in Shakespeare's day, and are alien...
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