The Plays of Benn Levy: Between Shaw and CowardFairleigh Dickinson University 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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... social morality , using conven- tional techniques of farce to parody themselves and conventional attitudes , behavior , and language to parody themselves — the result a carefully structured chaos that becomes the new social order . As a ...
... social morality , using conven- tional techniques of farce to parody themselves and conventional attitudes , behavior , and language to parody themselves — the result a carefully structured chaos that becomes the new social order . As a ...
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... social values and social coherence , of embodying and inculcating social morality . Natural law , a later concept , is the prov- ince of science . When an Andaman Islander constructs a bow in a certain way , it is not because he has ...
... social values and social coherence , of embodying and inculcating social morality . Natural law , a later concept , is the prov- ince of science . When an Andaman Islander constructs a bow in a certain way , it is not because he has ...
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... social evils you mean to expose , or the rest of the social service your theatre is doing , as it is to be calculat- ing the money it will earn . " I would add , it is just as bad to be thinking about the artistry that you are engaged ...
... social evils you mean to expose , or the rest of the social service your theatre is doing , as it is to be calculat- ing the money it will earn . " I would add , it is just as bad to be thinking about the artistry that you are engaged ...
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Chronology | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 17 |
This Woman Business 1925 | 40 |
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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 Marcel Pagnol marriage Martha middle-class Miss Pinnet Moonlight morality plays mother Mud and Treacle Nicholas 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