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Article: Mary Tudor. (Promethean Theatre Company, New York)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- November 28, 1988
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The nineteenth century is genlerally thought to have produced little drama worth remembering until the Modernist changing of the guard that began with Ibsen. This is especially true of theater in England and the United States. The Romantic movement in both Germany and France did yield its quota of theatrical glory, but even the acknowledged classics of Goethe, Schiller and Hugo have not be come established presences on stages outside their homelands.
Except -and this is a huge exception on the opera stage. There Faust, Don Carlos and Rigoletto have continued to lend the luster of daily use to the archetypal creations of their originators (along with such ...