Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The sensitive, edgy, intuitive neurasthenic heroine is really a self-inquisitioner who pares away one after another of life's enigmas without revealing a single motive for her crime. The plaints she registers against the cousin-housekeeper are that she was silent, efficient, clean, ate and slept well, and...
T.S. Eliot called him "the singular poet with the delightful name." Cyril Tourneur's name is one of the few things known about the Elizabethan dramatist. In an era of prolific playwriting, he produced only two plays that have survived, The Atheist's Tragedy and The Revenger'...
'This is an apt criticism of his play The Revenger's Tragedy, which has been revived by the Yale Repertory Theatre. It qualifies as a zestful enterprise in theatrical archaeology but a somewhat more obscure service to drama.
Since the play originally appeared around 1607, Tourneur had had plenty of time to be influenced by Shakespeare. The Revenger's Tragedy shows that genius is not catching. In the way that one speaks of situation comedies, Tourneur's play is a situation tragedy, with its repetitive horrors...
This is merely the cream of the evening's deadly jests. The play moves like a venomous centipede through rape, incest, fratricide, adultery and bloody multiple murder. Early on, Tourneur has Vendice say, "To be honest is not to be i' the world." It establishes the odor of...