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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