Word: winterset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death-wish motif is not something infantile and slightly ridiculous. What other than the death of young lovers constitutes the theme of such literary works as Romeo and Juliet, Dumas' La Dame aux Camèlias, Maxwell Anderson's Winterset, and practically all of the most popular operas, notably Tristan und Isolde...
...generation have we seen the tragic protagonist who is cursed by the necessity of walking, victim and innocent, through an insane world. We need only recall such plays as Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, Paul Green's Johnny Johnston, or Anderson's Key Largo and Winterset, while Sartre gave a definitive formulation, in theory and on the stage, to the principle of the absurd...