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----- Original Message -----
From: "Diana Wright" <dgw1@nyu.edu>
To: <classics@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 2:21 AM
Subject: The Invention of Love


I was invited this evening to see Stoppard's "The Invention of Love," of
which I have included the NYTimes review below.  I am too entranced to
say more now than that it is heart-breaking and side-splitting in
language and ideas; to see, breathtakingly, ravishingly beautiful.

DW
              March 30, 2001

              THEATER REVIEW

              'Invention of Love': Housman's Hell, Stoppard's
              Style

              By BEN BRANTLEY

                     When Tom Stoppard goes to hell, you
                     can bet it won't be fire and brimstone
              waiting below. The Hades that's conjured in
              the shimmering Lincoln Center production of
              Mr. Stoppard's "Invention of Love," which
              opened last night at the Lyceum Theater, has
              the requisite Stygian gloom, all right. But what
              illuminates it isn't infernal flame, but bright,
              lambent wit.

Housman would enjoy--I would prefer to think he does enjoy--the absurdity of
"lambent wit".  Brantley is not a bad sort but he has no idea what "lambo"
means or of the risks of piling up adjectives to show one has a large
supply.

J.F. Gannon


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