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IN A TIME of increasing discussion of women's and Third World people's oppression, there still remains enormous ignorance about the second-class citizenship of gay and lesbian people. This segment of the population, which includes members of every race, religion, and social class, is subject to legal restrictions...
For Alitto, Liang's early life is a parable of psychiatric disorder, in which Liang's dizzying rush through a Western, and Indian, and finally a Chinese Confucian stage provide a microcosm of China's search for a culture to serve in the modern era. Alitto uses Eriksonian analysis to...
It is refreshing to encounter a dramatist who can people a stage rather than depopulate it. Playwright Shank's specific insight into the modern temper is that most people nowadays are talking to themselves under the guise of talking to others. Fortunately, the Actors Theater of Louisville is conversing...
With less care this discord-first interpretation could turn the Dream into a rowdy cockfight, with lovers, parents, fairies and rustics tussling through scene after scene. But Epstein draws nearly all of his conflict from the text--except for an amusing pre-marital spat between Theseus and Hippolyta that makes...
But a messy novel about life's disorder does not work any better than a tedious novel about tedium. The Bleeding Heart can be entered in both categories. Its beginning reads as if D.H. Lawrence and Erica Jong had collaborated on a soap opera. Victor and Dolores first meet...