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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20021113
Author:McNulty, Charles

Joanna Laurens Imagines Sophocles; Chekhov Gets a Tuner

THE THREE BIRDS

By Joanna Laurens

Gale Gates et al.

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MOSCOW

By Nick Salamone and Maury R. McIntyre

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On the totem pole of creative achievement, dramatic adaptations wouldn't seem to fall that high. Yet the long and distinguished pedigree of literary borrowers proves that the practice is no mere refuge for second-rate imaginations. After all, the Greek tragedians found most of their tales in Homer, while Shakespeare raided classic and ...

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