The Plays of Benn Levy: Between Shaw and CowardFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1994 - 220 pages 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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19251928 Contemporary Attitudes | 40 |
A Man with Red Hair 1928 | 46 |
Mud and Treacle or The Course of True Love 1928 | 50 |
A Piece of Pastiche in Three Acts 1928 | 56 |
19291931 Games of Truth | 63 |
A Religious Comedy in Three Acts and a Prologue 1930 | 68 |
Topaze 1930 | 75 |
Cupid and Psyche 1952 | 132 |
The Rape of the Belt 1957 | 138 |
19461966 Tribalism and Myth | 151 |
The Tumbler 1960 | 157 |
Public and Confidential 1966 | 163 |
A Miscellany | 173 |
Conclusions Mirror to an Age | 184 |
Anatomy of the Theatre | 194 |
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