|
|
Article: The denial of the feminine: Shakespeare's lost daughters in Simon Gray's Butley.(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Institute for Evolutionary Psychology. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
The prolific Simon Gray is perhaps best known for his plays about the problems and anomalies pf middle-class and academic life. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and spent twenty years as a lecturer at Queen Mary College. In Butley, Gray draws upon this experience to depict the frustrations and posturing endemic to certain academics who have never found meaning in teaching and research but continue to do so as an exercise in futility and bitterness.
Butley depicts the terminal travail of a disheveled, despairing, and misanthropic don, Ben Butley, who has failed on every level of his benighted existence. His one-year marriage to Ann, which produced a ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: THEATER REVIEW; For all its brilliance, 'Butley' still ...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;
October 31, 2003 ;
700+ words
... ... is starring in a revival of Simon Gray's searing, 1971 comedy of British academic life, "Butley." It is a performance of ... irresistible charm. With "Butley," he shows he is also interested ... theater and not in New York. Ben Butley is a middle-aged professor ...
|
|