The Courier's Tragedy

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Thu May 21 18:49:51 CDT 2009


On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:21 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> As Itchy and Scratchy is to Tom and Jerry, so The Courier's Tragedy is to the Revenge play. It anachronistically owes a lot to the Grand Guignol:
>
> http://www.grandguignol.com/

"It plays, as Metzger remarked later, like a Road Runner cartoon in
blank verse." (p. 58)

http://books.google.com/books?id=vp2Sv9KO1VUC



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