How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken by Mendelsohn, Daniel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Introduction:

Part One Heroines

Novel of the Year (The Lovely Bones) Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf (The Hours) Victims on Broadway I (The Glass Menagerie) Victims on Broadway II (A Streetcar Named Desire) The Women of Pedro Almodóvar (Volver) Lost in Versailles (Marie Antoinette) Looking for Lucia (Lucia at the Met) Not an Ideal Husband (Ted Hughes’s Alcestis)

Part Two Heroics

A Little Iliad (Troy) Alexander, the Movie! (Alexander) Duty (300) It’s Only a Movie (Kill Bill: Volume 1) Nailed! (Dale Peck’s Hatchet Jobs) The Way Out (Everyman) Mighty Hermaphrodite (Middlesex)

Part Three Closets

Part Four Theater

The Greek Way (Greek tragedies in New York) Bitter-Sweet (Private Lives) Double Take (The Producers) Harold Pinter’s Celebration (Pinter Retrospective at Lincoln Center)

Part Five War

Theaters of War (Thucydides’ History) The Bad Boy of Athens (Medea on Broadway) For the Birds (Nathan Lane’s Frogs) September 11 at the Movies (World Trade Center and United 93)

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