Critical Survey of Drama: AuthorsFrank Northen Magill Critical essays examine representative plays and identify themes and characteristics employed by more than 170 dramatists ranging from Aeschylus in 400 B.C. to the contemporary Austrian Peter Handke. |
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Page 172
... daughter Blanche , for want of a dowry , can- not marry her lover , Georges , because his mother forbids it ; her daughter Judith has no prospects for making her way as an actress . Marie , the daughter destined to sacrifice herself to ...
... daughter Blanche , for want of a dowry , can- not marry her lover , Georges , because his mother forbids it ; her daughter Judith has no prospects for making her way as an actress . Marie , the daughter destined to sacrifice herself to ...
Page 307
... daughter . A typical Golden Age father might have felt constrained by the honor code to murder a dis- honored daughter , and Isabel actually expects her father to do so ; Crespo arranges instead , after his efforts to have her honorably ...
... daughter . A typical Golden Age father might have felt constrained by the honor code to murder a dis- honored daughter , and Isabel actually expects her father to do so ; Crespo arranges instead , after his efforts to have her honorably ...
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... daughter's theater ambitions , the daughter becomes so frightened that she falls violently ill . This in turn shakes the father out of his self - satisfied complacency , making him realize not only that he drove his children away from ...
... daughter's theater ambitions , the daughter becomes so frightened that she falls violently ill . This in turn shakes the father out of his self - satisfied complacency , making him realize not only that he drove his children away from ...
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