The Splintered Stage: The Decline of the American TheaterA critical appraisal of postwar drama from O'Neill to Albee, indicating that our contemporary playwrights have an extremely narrow view of life. |
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... kill Claudius , but he spent so much energy thinking about it that he didn't have enough left to do the job . A. C. Bradley attributes Hamlet's action — or lack of it - to melancholy brought on by the shock of his mother's remarriage ...
... kill Claudius , but he spent so much energy thinking about it that he didn't have enough left to do the job . A. C. Bradley attributes Hamlet's action — or lack of it - to melancholy brought on by the shock of his mother's remarriage ...
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... kill oneself ? The problem , once presented to his fertile , over- active mind , must be worried in the manner of a dog a bone until all possibilities have been exhausted . Life is a mess , he muses , compiling a list of standard human ...
... kill oneself ? The problem , once presented to his fertile , over- active mind , must be worried in the manner of a dog a bone until all possibilities have been exhausted . Life is a mess , he muses , compiling a list of standard human ...
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... killing his mother and father . Later , Martha hints that this unfortunate may have been George himself . But this theme ... kill him in fact . But the poison he adds to the daily gift of hamburger he brings the dog only makes the animal ...
... killing his mother and father . Later , Martha hints that this unfortunate may have been George himself . But this theme ... kill him in fact . But the poison he adds to the daily gift of hamburger he brings the dog only makes the animal ...
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