Word: circassian
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...last year's hit London play Ross, Playwright Terence Rattigan attempted to probe the nature of Lawrence's wound. The play is built around a crucial incident in Lawrence's life. Posing as a light-skinned Circassian, Lawrence walked into Deraa to scout the defenses and was seized by the Turks. By Lawrence's own account, the Turkish commander tried to assault him sexually; when he refused to comply, he was whipped, bayoneted and finally sodomized by the guards, then set free. As Rattigan sees it, the Turks had recognized Lawrence, and were aware...