... of classicism has become emphatic only since Curse ofthe Starving Class, it begins to reveal itself considerably earlier. Tooth of Crime (1972), whose very title sounds Artaudian, has as its essence the same spontaneous, brute energy and imagination as all Shepard’s early work. Shepard...

... a friend, he shall be driven to the judges as if he himself were guilty. I pray the corrupter's life be cursed, whether he did the deed with others or by himself alone...

.... Lady, Clytemnestra, Queen Things are what they are. Neither of Argos, tell us what to do. 64 What have you heard? Why do you order will curse me if I disobey this order. sacrifices to all the gods I shall...

...? I know you all too well. Guilt? You speak as if your hands were stained with phèdre It’s the curse, my mother’s curse, the blood! revenge What crime...

... be prepared Thus part of the deal is that he finds lovers to assume the curse to defend their amplifications and reductions; but the poten- whose love is so ardent it transcends all illusion. To test this, tial rewards are great. Principal among my elaborations are Zelou plots to magically bequeath his...

.... In their explorations they raise many valid questions, but their answers are dread- fully wrong-which does not mean the old answers are right. In the present American theatre clearly everyone is wrong. Perception (distance)-the great curse and in theatre the great freedom and consolation...

... sweeping sword to make him fall Beneath my horse’s hooves like tree-ripe fruit? penthesilea See! I curse my lot this day! No, before I’d ever leave unfinished My soul’s dearest friends have made a pact...

..., directed the arts to this end and praised parody as a cudgel more effective than a curse in the Socialist Copies. of the originals crossed the country and Kerzhentsev con• struggle. cluded that the windows "were a great success, they always...

... certain structural strains, the play Unlike Thc Curse of the Starving Class, antique plates, he heads for the door alone. avoids the obvious surrealistic dislocations however, a play which it resembles in several Suddenly Austin grabs a telephone cord common in Shepard’s earlier work, while ways...

... of the meetings of by Bruce King (St. Martin's Press, 1991). classic playwright and contemporary critic $35.00. in these essays: The inevitable collision between the two rivals reflects an Curse of the Fool: Three Plays by apocalyptic vision and is the logical Kenneth Bernard...

... of the meetings of by Bruce King (St. Martin's Press, 1991). classic playwright and contemporary critic $35.00. in these essays: The inevitable collision between the two rivals reflects an Curse of the Fool: Three Plays by apocalyptic vision and is the logical Kenneth Bernard...

... and contemporary critic $35.00. in these essays: The inevitable collision between the two rivals reflects an Curse of the Fool: Three Plays by apocalyptic vision and is the logical Kenneth Bernard (Asylum Arts Publishing, extension of the vectorial principle at work 1992). $8.95...

... of the American Theatre 1860-1976 by Daniel Blum. (Fourth Edition) Enlarged and revised by John Willis. Crown Angel City, Curse of the Starving Class and Other Plays by Sam Shepard. Publishers, N.Y ., N.Y ., 1977...

... (cursing): May the gods MOTHER: Adjoa . . . Adjoa.. . what is reward you. wrong? Can you breathe well . . . MOTHER: The words of a witch never go GI R L (sneezes): Ahh . . . mother, I am to the gods. dizzy...

... to stave off the disaster with great zeal and great anger against the family curse. The chorus women became matriarch, pacifist, and activist, and Eteocles emerged as the proto-tragic man of leadership 124 and pride brought to destruction by an error...

... loved and served, NELSON: But how can we, ma’am, if Suddenly, from out of nowhere, he Samm-Art is mad. he’s killing animals and all? began cursing his enemies; how Williams, Charles NELSON: Maybe they did something to TECMESSA Because I think it’s...

... your butt to the glory of a dictator, then I say dogs . . . cursed country, cursed people. But this will change one day. When we are ready, things mafikiri Watch it, Domina; just watch...

... sage. More cannily, he echoed Leon Trotsky. Predicting a utopian future for all kinds of work under the Soviet regime, he exhorted the actor to prepare for a new job, actually a new vocation: For he will be working in a society where labour is no longer regarded as a curse but as a joyful, vital...

... than a curse Bim: And then I see three trees again. And then I go further with the enemy, and it is sometimes more dangerous and meet three trees again. than a physical blow. Why is this?. . . . The key lies in the And then as I come out of the woods - three more trees...

... it violently overhead. We assume the curses are meant for these others, the mass that refuses to accept its part and so borders precariously between its comfortable seat and disposal upon the altar of the stage. Perhaps we even find the moment amusing, a further ratification of our differ- ence from...