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...underlying story comes from Greek myth via the Hippolytus of Euripides. Hippolytus is the bastard son of Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur, and Hippolyte, single-breasted queen of the Amazons. He lives in the home of Theseus and Theseus' young bride Phaedra. An outdoors he-man sort, Hippolytus neglects the service of Aphrodite, goddess of love. The goddess puts a sex hex on Phaedra, who is consumed with a ravenous passion for her stepson Hippolytus. She is rebuffed in her advances, and in revenge tells Theseus that the boy has made attempts on her virtue. Theseus prays...
Rosenberg traces the myth of the Jew to its Biblical origins. "It dates back at least to Herod, the slayer of children and aspiring Christ killer in disguise ('and when you have found him, bring me word, that I may also come and worship him'); to Judas, the original businessman with the contract in the pocket; and to the anonymous vulgar Jewish farceur who, in answer to Christ's 'Eli', eh' forced a reed filled with vinegar between His lips." The twin masks of the Jew-mutilator and usurer thus had Biblical sanction "at a time when literature flourished under...
...mere "air" - stand all manner of men, and of human ambitions and failings and faiths. About equally between them, at the center of the play, stands a youthful Prince Hal, who must grow from being a thoughtless playboy and Falstaff's roistering playfellow into Hotspur's slayer and the eventual victor of Agincourt. With its carousing prince and its treacherous king and its traitorous rebels, with its grand-mannered plotting and grand-languaged speeches, Henry IV has considerable vitality without Falstaff...
...contractor (John McGiver). At that very moment, in fact, the contractor knocks on his door, then casually walks off with the essential shovel. Moments later a real estate agent appears with somebody who wants to look at the house. Then the phone rings. And even after the poor slaphappy slayer manages to bury the evidence, he has an unpleasant surprise in store: the man he killed was not the blackmailer, who has been found dead in a Manhattan hotel. But then who in Connecticut is the poor stiff...
...front end (concessions, games of chance) got a big play too. A muscular cowpoke swung a big wooden mallet and sent a weight soaring up a wire to clang a gong. He strutted off like a dragon slayer. "The guy can rig that bell any way he wants to," said an operator. "He twists a knob, and you'll never hit the bell; he twists it back, and you'll hit it every time." Over where the flatties (dishonest concessionaires) worked the barrel ball game, the toss of a ball into a barrel won a prize. But someone...