Word: wantonness
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Unthrifty Son. The playwright also appropriates the changing character of Prince Hal from Falstaffs history, virtually without alteration. When Bolingbroke, the nearly crowned Henry IV, sneers despairingly at "my unthrifty son ... young wanton and effeminate boy" in the fifth act of Richard II, he is no distance at all from Falstaffs characterization of the young Hal as "the lad who was twice sick in my hat." Hal's cold renunciation of Falstaff on coronation day in Henry V is- begging the difference of a thy and a thee- word for word the same in the play and the autobiography...
...process, Soap breaks down the barriers between the two. The patrons of the Proposition Theater temporarily become the viewers of a daytime drama called The Wanton Wind, whose renewal or cancellation depends on their whim. The Wanton Wind has obvious parallels with Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; it is set, for example, in Breezewood (instead of Fernwood), and its young Don Juan, Brent Owen, resembles Sgt. Dennis Foley. But The Wanton Wind is pure parody in a way Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is not--highly stylized, it comes complete with musical flourishes, tensely meaningful looks and lines like "Don't fight...
STILL THE SHOW has pretensions to verite. "The Wanton Wind isn't a metaphor for life; it is life," one of its stars insists. That's where the actors themselves come in. If we can't believe totally in The Wanton Wind, can't in the space of the couple of episodes we're presented with begin to empathize with its characters, we still have a chance to worry about the future of the actors who play them. As it turns out, though, they are hardly less one-dimensional or stylized than their roles; the aging star, the actor...
...actors' recognition of their dependence on the show. But, with all the switching about from the play-within-a-play to the action which frames it and all the appeals for audience participation, we never really do start to care deeply about the characters in either Soap or The Wanton Wind. The night I went the audience voted almost unanimously to cancel the show...
...response to this wanton act of cold-blooded murder should have been a squadron of B-52 bombers containing our explosive sentiments delivered personally to Kim II Sung...