tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124309396371161776.post8460502468860945090..comments2023-10-29T09:55:46.373+00:00Comments on BETWIXT: Europe: “Oh reason not the need.”Robin Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06731689471696298055noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124309396371161776.post-77564967222611857112007-05-13T12:55:00.000+01:002007-05-13T12:55:00.000+01:00Did you know Blanche was an elizabethan underneath...Did you know Blanche was an elizabethan underneath it all?<BR/><BR/>Blanche is Williams’s Lear, running for protection “from one leaky roof to another<BR/>leaky roof—because it was storm—all storm, and I was—caught in the<BR/>centre” [Scene Five, 169]. She needs the “kindness of strangers” [Scene Eleven, 225].<BR/><BR/>“OUT, OUT BRIEF CANDLE”<BR/>Shakespearean Echoes in A Streetcar Named Desire1<BR/>LYNN SERMIN MESKILL<BR/>Université de Paris XIII-IUT)<BR/><BR/>Blanche, you, Dover, Lear - perfection?<BR/><BR/>WMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com