Monday, November 08, 2021
Celebrate the northern wit of New England
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/invading-good-samaritan-d63d7d1f77ec
If
Lincoln had not been assassinated in the third act of this play, would it have
been able to survive the 19th century? It is pathetic how an invader from
America imposes his own elitist vision that saves the local British aristocracy
from bankruptcy and at the same time he provides himself with a wife that just
inherited the fortune he should have gotten if he had not been honest enough
and revealed the will of the patriarch from America. No empathy to be wasted on
this charade. But funny plays on words. God damn it!
The
play only exists because of the assassination of Lincoln in the third act.
Otherwise, what can you think of it? Anti-Indian, not to say racist, the blacks
are totally absent, hence slavery is ignored, and the British aristocracy
depicted here is vain and totally incompetent for the industrial society that
is coming up. What can we do with this play? A vaudeville circus exposition in
the form of a farce à la Grande Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson.
Medium.com 2021
