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The rules of the game

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The Johns Hopkins University Press 7 views
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080185489X, 9780801854897
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"Curtain of clouds." I always reacted strongly to these words-which evoked a theatrical space enlarged to the proportions of infinity-when I read them in a libretto, where they indicated the caesura between two scenes, of a work by Wagner or any other musician who chose, as did Nietzsche's illustrious friend, to put opera in the service of a mythology...

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A drama of desire and jealousy, this scintillating play brings the concept of 'revenge' tragedy intriguingly into the twentieth century. The eternal triangle, as played out by Leone, Guido and Silia, has a chillingly unexpected ending. The play was performed to great acclaim, with Richard Griffiths playing Leone, at the Almeida Theatre in 1992.

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