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Body Wig. The tradition of Things Seen has achieved less critical success but even wider popularity. The main themes of the genre were laid down in its first masterpiece, Frankenstein. Written in 1816-17 by Mary Shelley, the 19-year-old wife of the poet, the novel is a brilliant philosophical thriller about the arrogance of science and the revenge of nature. Seventy years later, in 1886, the point of the Frankenstein story was sharpened by Robert Louis Stevenson in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By combining the scientist and the monster in the same personality...
Luckily, there are a couple of generous compensations. Carole Shelley is so stingingly sarcastic as Ruth that the scenery shrivels. As Sarah, the super-housewife, Estelle Parsons yaps through the trilogy like an angry Peke. Funny is as useless a word to describe them as high is for Everest...
...other books are "The Quest for Permanence: the Symbolism of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats" (1959), "Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity" (1964), and "English Romantic Writers...
...Shelley Frey Lancaster...
...steals Kathy away from Bob. He should be a visual foil to Bob--both bigger and better looking, but though O'Brien speaks and moves smoothly, he doesn't have the physical presence to do justice to the part. In contrast, Tony Horowitz as Norman and Diane Sherlock as Shelley are marvelously convincing caricatures. Ethan Dmitrovsky plays Willis the landlord Archie Bunker-style; his dream monologue is the most haunting moment of the play...