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Article: American Coriolanus.(General Douglas MacArthur)
- Article from:
- The Humanist
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
- Author:
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Moses and Jesus were fatherless sons. In the story of the infant Moses found in the bulrushes and the Egyptian princess who would become his surrogate mother, one finds not even a shadow of paternity. In the New Testament Mary looms so large and Joseph so small that the later claim of a virginal conception meshes smoothly with the beauty and magnificence of her motherhood in the gospel accounts. Fathers as begetters are superfluous in the foundation narratives of Judaism and Christianity. Has there ever been, will there ever be, a song with the lament, "Sometimes I feel like a fatherless child"?
Pop psychologists tell us that a son raised by a "single parent" ...
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Article: Coriolanus.(play)(Theater Review)
Shakespeare Bulletin;
March 22, 2005 ;
700+ words
...Coriolanus Presented by the Georgia Shakespeare ... Amlin Gray. With Saxon Palmer (Coriolanus), Rosemary Prinz (Volumnia), Park Krausen (Virgilia ... Georgia Shakespeare Festival's Coriolanus fittingly offered a tragic microcosm ...
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