Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witty, self-effacing and very British way, Braithwaite also has a lot to say about contemporary fiction in general. His opinions are marked by their forthrightness, as in his assertion that he's "saving Virginia Woolf for when I'm dead," or his hilarious skewering of Marquezian pyrotechnics; "A quota system is to be introduced on fiction set in South America. The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony....Ah, the daiquiri bird which incubates its eggs on the wing; ah the fredonna tree whose root grow at the tips of its branches...
Braithwaite has many other literary convictions. He prefers Thackeray to Dickens; he is saving Virginia Woolf for "when I'm dead." He would like to impose bans on certain categories of novel: those in which a group of people, isolated by circumstance, revert to the "natural condition" of man; novels about incest; those set in Oxford or Cambridge. He would also impose a quota system on fiction set in South America, "to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony...
West is rarely ranked with the foremost English novelists of this century: Lawrence, Forster, Woolf. For one thing, she turned her pen to too many tasks outside the realm of fiction; for another, she remained true to tradition in an age that gloried in breaking the molds. Rose Aubrey notes: "I am writing all this down in full knowledge that it will not now seem important, for the reason that that is just what marks off that past from our present. Everything was then of importance." This qualified apology sounds like a reply to her friend and rival Virginia Woolf...
...subject do not abound, federal statute explicitly gives the author of a performing work control over where, when, and, to a lesser degree, how his wore is performed. For example, Edward Albee recently forced the cancellation of an Arlington, Texas community theatre production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, because Albee opposed the theatre's plan to use an all-male cast...
...second time forced an avant-garde Manhattan theater troupe, the Wooster Group, to stop using portions of his play The Crucible in a production called L.S.D. In August, Edward Albee compelled a Texas stage company, Theater Arlington, to cut short its revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The production had converted Albee's squabbling heterosexual couples into a quartet of gay men. The director points to the oft-repeated rumor that this was Albee's original intent, a claim the playwright has denied...