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Lope de Vega,David Johnston

The Dog in The Manger

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  • caseymontryhas quoted7 years ago
    No matter what you say, say nothing
  • caseymontryhas quoted7 years ago
    this has led to a play that is constantly on the boil, and where characters are forever drawn into that dangerous area where words begin to mean real things, where real things are constantly on the verge of being said and of being understood
  • caseymontryhas quoted7 years ago
    There is a point here
  • caseymontryhas quoted7 years ago
    libertine but not free
  • caseymontryhas quoted7 years ago
    suggestion of games of sexual power and domination
  • caseymontryhas quoted7 years ago
    most controlled and most erotically liberated plays
  • caseymontryhas quoted7 years ago
    Theatre, for him, was a business
  • caseymontryhas quoted7 years ago
    What is the relationship between blood, blue blood and sex? What are the subterfuges that nobility will employ in order to maintain its privilege and its status? And the question that underlies it all: where does the principle of love, the bond of common humanity, sit with all of this
  • caseymontryhas quoted7 years ago
    it was to lose the volatile audiences of the Madrid theatres of his day, the ‘corrales’ which, not unlike the theatres of Elizabethan England, were like crammed and throbbing cockpits
  • caseymontryhas quoted7 years ago
    reminiscent of Shakespeare’s so-called ‘double time’
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