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Sophocles’ Antigone
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This post begins a series of unfinished essays on theatre as a fundamental human experience, without which we become lesser creatures (inhumane). They connect the decline in cultural values with the fact that only one in twelve Americans sees even one stage play in a year, and those few see an average of just three. They recount the historical impact of theatre, its religious roots and tensions, its unique cathartic power (“the willing suspension of disbelief”), its ability to “hold the mirror up to nature.”Protected: Over the River and Through the Woods
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Behn Quotes
“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
“Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.” 
“That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
“No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.”
“Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow”
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Mamet’s Chiropractor
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The (Jewish) Defendant in Mamet’s Romance is a chiropodist (no, a chiropractor!) who discovers and proclaims, at the end of Scene Two, in the middle of a vicious (and hilarious) bloodbath of religious bigotry with his (Catholic) Defense Attorney: “I KNOW HOW TO BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST!” Continue reading Mamet’s Chiropractor
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