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From: Commonweal
Date: 19930212
Author:Weales, Gerald

At a seminar before the first of three performances of The Yellow Wallpaper given last December at the Manhattan School of Music, Ronald Perera (music) and Constance Congdon (libretto) explained the strategies they used in making an opera of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman story, which has become a staple of American literature anthologies and courses since the growing interest in women writers has altered the canon in so many colleges. At one point, Congdon said that working on the piece had been fascinating and advised "any playwrights in the audience" to consider writing a ...

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