The Plays of Benn Levy: Between Shaw and CowardFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1994 - 220 pagini The theme of Levy's first stage play, This Woman Business (1925), is the Shavian battle of the sexes, an idea that threads its way through most of his plays and culminates in his Giraudoux-like comic adaptation of the Amazonian adventures of Theseus and Heracles (The Rape of the Belt, 1957) and his last play, a realistic problem play (The Member for Gaza, 1966) which, despite its seeming political topicality, echoes with eerie contemporaneity nearly thirty years later. |
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... civilized comic - fantasies and morality plays that incor- porate prevailing themes and modes of midcentury English drama . Yet his plays have a strikingly contemporary resonance , for exam- ple , Young Madame Conti ( 1936 ) , which ...
... civilized comic - fantasies and morality plays that incor- porate prevailing themes and modes of midcentury English drama . Yet his plays have a strikingly contemporary resonance , for exam- ple , Young Madame Conti ( 1936 ) , which ...
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... civilized comedies , rather than for plays like The Devil , with its sometimes distract- ingly polemic pleas for a rational humanism . In some morality plays , such as The Jealous God and Public and Confidential , how- ever , Levy does ...
... civilized comedies , rather than for plays like The Devil , with its sometimes distract- ingly polemic pleas for a rational humanism . In some morality plays , such as The Jealous God and Public and Confidential , how- ever , Levy does ...
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A Man with Red Hair 1928 | 46 |
Mud and Treacle or The Course of True Love 1928 | 50 |
A Piece of Pastiche in Three Acts 1928 | 56 |
19291931 Games of Truth | 63 |
A Religious Comedy in Three Acts and a Prologue 1930 | 68 |
Topaze 1930 | 75 |
Cupid and Psyche 1952 | 132 |
The Rape of the Belt 1957 | 138 |
19461966 Tribalism and Myth | 151 |
The Tumbler 1960 | 157 |
Public and Confidential 1966 | 163 |
A Miscellany | 173 |
Conclusions Mirror to an Age | 184 |
Anatomy of the Theatre | 194 |
Hollywood Holiday 1931 | 82 |
Springtime for Henry 1931 | 87 |
19361940 Women and the Social Structure | 101 |
A Life of Don Juan 1937 | 106 |
Madame Bovary 1937 | 113 |
The Jealous God 1939 | 119 |
19461966 Playful Philosophical Debates | 126 |
The Position Stated | 204 |
The Censorship | 207 |
Notes | 209 |
Bibliography | 214 |
Index | 218 |
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adaptation Antiope artist audience Belt Benn Levy Bottle Brooks Atkinson Celia characters Clutterbuck Colin comedy comic Constance Cummings contemporary Coward Crispin critic Cupid and Psyche debate December Deptford Devil Dewlip drama dramatists Emma English fantasy farce father feminist girl Hera Heracles Hippolyte Hollywood Holiday husband Ibid ideas Jealous Jealous God Jelliwell Judy Kate League of Dramatists Levy's plays lives Liza London Madame Bovary Magnus male Malkin marriage Martha Member for Gaza Michael Foot Miss Pinnet Moonlight morality plays mother Mud and Treacle Nigel Bruce Noel Coward Pages of subsequent plot Poet's Heart political Polly prologue Public and Confidential Rape Rattigan realistic Red Hair Return to Tyassi romantic scene Shavian Shaw Shaw's Shufflepenny social Solomon Springtime for Henry stage story subsequent quotations Tennison Theater theme Theseus tion Topaze traditional truth Tumbler wife Woman Business women writing York Young Madame Conti Zeus
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Pagina 114 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Pagina 77 - Guido, with a burnt stick in his hand, demonstrating on the smooth paving-stones of the path, that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.
Pagina 71 - ... Certainly not. He is not a person. What vanity is it that tempts you to invest him with your own little human attributes ? PAUL, [banging her fists madly against the desk she has been crying on] I tell you my heart is broken: broken, do you hear ? Does that mean nothing to you ? NICHOLAS. Nothing: less than nothing. Every little tinpot philosopher has been able to see that fame and money are blind alleys; but it took a Plato to discover that so also is beauty; and a Jesus of Nazareth to point...
Pagina 50 - I'll see that you keep that sleek, bushy tail glistening as it should, because you're a very beautiful squirrel, but you're none too bright either, so we've got to be careful. There are cruel steel traps lying about everywhere, just waiting for rather mad, slightly satanic, and very timid little animals.
Pagina 195 - ... followed from time immemorial, and any other way is wrong, is contrary to custom, to law. Law, for the Andaman Islander, means that there is an order of the universe, characterised by absolute uniformity; this order was established once for all in the time of the ancestors, and is not to be interfered with, the results of any such interference being evil, ranging from merely minor ills such as disappointment or discomfort to great calamities. The law of compensation is absolute. Any deviation...
Pagina 73 - I merely shewed you that you couldn't. That is my work. PAUL, [still sobbing bitterly] If there were a God, he wouldn't let you draw another breath. NICHOLAS, [continuing smoothly] When you are told that God is omnipotent, it merely means that in the long run he has you all on the end of a string. He may hold some on a longer, looser string than others, but the string is there, always there. It is a mistake to strain at it: it only hurts. That much I think I have been able to demonstrate. A circle...
Pagina 106 - Good-bye. (She takes his face in her hands; and as he divines her intention and bends his knee, she kisses his forehead. Then he flies out into the night. She turns to Morell, holding out her arms to him.) Ah, James! (They embrace. But they do not know the secret in the poet's heart...
Pagina 49 - Laughton has made so subtle, so revoltingly brilliant a study of his sadistic obsession that the man, and through him the play, is well-nigh intolerable. Mr. Laughton by face, by voice, above all, by imaginative bodily movement, compels suspension of disbelief.
Pagina 195 - ... good serviceable weapon, whereas the wrong way will give an inferior or useless one. The Andaman Islander tends to look at the matter from a different angle; the right way is right because it is the one that has been followed from time immemorial, and any other way is wrong, is contrary to custom, to law. Law, for the Andaman Islander, means that there is an order of the universe, characterised by absolute uniformity; this order was established once for all in the time of the ancestors, and is...