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According to the legend, two brothers. Sharyar and Shah Zaman, who reign over adjoining kingdoms, discover their wives infidelity and vow that, in retaliation, each will rape a virgin every night and have her killed in the morning. Sharyar's kingdom soon deteriorates as parents flee the country with their daughters. At last, Scheherazade, a local visor's eldest daughter, announces to her father that she has a plan to end the King's murders and he, therefore, must present her to him that night as the virgin...
This argument fits into the broader theme of the play: can men and women live together as equals? Once the 1001st tale has been told, Sherry is forced to ask for forgiveness and Sharyar renounces his vow and proclaims her the "saviour of your sex" and proposes marriage...
This violent solution is in marked opposition with the other ending that is offered. Doony is stopped by her husband Shah Zaman when he sincerely confesses that he had actually never killed all the virgins. The virgin who visited him the first night showed him the foolishness of the vow and set up a society of women to which he could send them while it would appear as if he was murdering them. "After all, none would choose death over emigration," she said. This scene is beautifully acted by Giroux and McDonough, as The Woman and Shah Zaman, who athletically...
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...administration's strongest concern was whether these sites could be used to deploy missiles within a two week period. During these meetings, however, the administration agreed on action which eventually succeeded in forcing the Soviets to remove the missiles: A U.S. blockade of Cuba, and Kennedy's public vow that the United States was willing to risk...