The Plays of Benn Levy: Between Shaw and CowardFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994 - 220 páginas The theme of Levy's first stage play, This Woman Business (1925), is the Shavian battle of the sexes, an idea that threads its way through most of his plays and culminates in his Giraudoux-like comic adaptation of the Amazonian adventures of Theseus and Heracles (The Rape of the Belt, 1957) and his last play, a realistic problem play (The Member for Gaza, 1966) which, despite its seeming political topicality, echoes with eerie contemporaneity nearly thirty years later. |
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Chronology | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 17 |
This Woman Business 1925 | 40 |
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