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Four Who Live Through. The Night of the Iguana is Williams' greatest play of self-transcendence. Esthetically, it is a comeback from recent plays (Sweet Bird of Youth, Suddenly Last Summer), in which he seemed to confuse assaults on the nerves with cries from the heart. Instead of willful...
This backstairs stuff is as unconvincing as any tabloid keyhole column. But there can be no doubt that the willful Queen had a warmly loving relationship with the rough Scottish servant. The only recorded time in which the two were alone together, thinking that they were unobserved, makes a touching...
Before taking up with a cat, Greer advises the prospective owner to find a pet whose personality matches his own. Siamese, for example, are friendly and fun-loving, even though they sometimes go around muttering to themselves. The Manx is timid, dependent, and doleful to the point of martyrdom-ideal...
∙AFRICA. In the newly independent states of Africa, the ruling political spirit is extreme nationalism with often vicious or childish anti-Western overtones, but this does not necessarily mean that these new countries are going Communist. Moscow may find it difficult to bind this willful, unpredictable force to a...
The horror of Electra is not mythic but domestic. In the rasping quarrels of Electra with her mother and sister, modern playgoers will find hints of those vicious family fights that occupy whole scenes of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. The difference is that Sophocles'...