Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Treacher). But the tone of the play is prevailingly wry and ironic. The air seems very chill at times for all the Mediterranean sunlight. A bald and aging conqueror withholds his heart from a violent young girl rather than have her torture it; then, with a rueful smile, promises to send her a dashing young Marc Antony. "Murder shall breed murder . . ." he laments, "until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand." But as he goes out, and the final curtain falls, it is to the upraised swords of his soldiers and their great...