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Baptism, The Three Enemies, And T. S. Eliot, Clifford Davidson Dec 1998

Baptism, The Three Enemies, And T. S. Eliot, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

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Ersatz Comedy In The Third Reich, William Grange Dec 1998

Ersatz Comedy In The Third Reich, William Grange

William Grange

JOSEPH GOEBBELS and ALFRED ROSENBERG identified Jewish playwrights, especially those who wrote comedy, as “agents of the threatening anti-Western invasion. . . . With the help of nigger Americanism, Jews from the East brought hither by the Mongolian sources of Bolshevism” had polluted an ethnically pure German theatre. Goebbels attacked plays by Franz Arnold (1878-1960), Rudolf Bernauer (1880-1953) Julius Berstl (1893-1975) Bruno Frank (1887-1945), Carl Zuckmayer (1898-1977) and others of deploying “hyper-modern, bolshevistic, mollusk-like and neurasthenic aesthetics” on German audiences. Purging the German theatre of comic plays by Jews and other creators of “abusive and undesirable literature,” Goebbels, Rosenberg, and …


Book Review Of Lee, K.H., Euripides' Ion., Katerina Zacharia Dec 1998

Book Review Of Lee, K.H., Euripides' Ion., Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

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Edward Bond’S ‘Irresponsibly Optimistic’ Preface To Saved, Robert Lublin Dec 1998

Edward Bond’S ‘Irresponsibly Optimistic’ Preface To Saved, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

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Review Of The 1999 Humana Festival Of New American Plays, Actors Theatre Of Louisville, David Wohl Dec 1998

Review Of The 1999 Humana Festival Of New American Plays, Actors Theatre Of Louisville, David Wohl

David Wohl

A Review of the Plays Performed during the 1999 Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville.