Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.—Perez, in The Mourning Bride by William Congreve, III.ii (1697) Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto.[I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.]—Terence, Heauton Timorumenos (163 BCE) ProlegomenonThroughout her wild career, Medea’s climactic, fateful decisions […]
Category: Essays
June 27, 2023 You speak Eclogue!—Musidorus in Head over Heels PrologueIn The Defence of Poesy, Sir Philip rails at length against the “defectuous,“faulty,” and frequently “absurd” English drama of his day, confessing that in hisexasperation he has “lavished out too many words of this play matter.”1 Something thatsends him into a particular apoplexy, one from […]