Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Things look bright at the outset when Arthur and Guinevere meet romantically and talk of themselves and marriage and sing of Camelot's charms:
The rain may never fall till after sundown, By eight the morning fog must disappear. And again, much later, as royalty asking What Do Simple Folk Do?-and whistling, singing, dancing by way of answer-they are appealingly gay. But too often Camelot's gaiety grows flip or desperate...
The pleasant things include some stylishly medieval Hanya Holm processions and dances, a gleaming Great Hall investiture of knights, some scattered Lerner lyrics and Loewe songs. But Camelot falls short of sophisticated glitter and shorter of romantic glow.
The Plough and the Stars (by Sean O'Casey) stands in the very first rank of modern plays. Among O'Casey's own, only Juno and the Paycock can challenge it; but though Juno has more memorable characters and richer comedy, its tragedy is dented with willful...
The Plough and the Stars is a properly orchestrated tragedy, but less a tragedy of war or even of civil war than of national character, of all that is left undone in working to achieve a great objective and then is too badly managed to achieve it. For O'...