I can see this with a Shakespeare comedy! Really lively! - Alan
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, phanero wrote:
Festive and utterly empty image for use as stage prop in an English remake of Octave Mirbeau's Grand Guignol era Morality Farce, _Scruples_ about a gentlemen thief who gets caught stealing from a wealthy art connoisseur, but who charms his victim with his elegant style and philosophy. A comedy. http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/3d/qqsm.jpg I only have Mirbeau's Torture Garden, a NY edition from 1931 with decidedly racist deco/expressionist (sinister chinese caricatures) end-papers and illust. by Jeanette Seelhoff trans. by Alvah C. Bessie, but there's a short descriptive blurb about Scruples in Mel Gordon's The Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror which is a decent infotainment book if not a scholarly work per se, similiar to his book Voluptuous Panic on Weimar sexuality. What Mel seems to be good at is putting together some pretty interesting bits of material culture to give a flavor of a milieu. The synopsis sections are just the right length and pretty fun to read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_Mirbeau Some interesting and humorous quotes from Octave can be found translated at wikipedia.
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