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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays
Title
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays / Daniel Mendelsohn.
ISBN
9780061456435 (acid-free paper)
0061456438 (acid-free paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Harper, c2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Summary
A collection of essays that mostly appeared in the New York Review of Books in which the classicist/critic looks at contemporary culture through its movies, books and theater.
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Contents
1. HEROINES. Novel of the year: The lovely bones
Not afraid of Virginia Woolf: The Hours
Victims on Broadway I: The Glass Menagerie
Victims on Broadway II: A Streetcar Named Desire
The women of Pedro Almodóvar: Volver
Lost in Versailles: Marie Antoinette
Looking for Lucia: Lucia at the Met
Not an ideal husband: Ted Hughes's Alcestis
2. HEROICS. A little Iliad: Troy
Alexander, the movie!
Duty: 300
It's only a movie: Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Nailed! Dale Peck's Hatchet Jobs
The way out: Everyman
Mighty Hermaphrodite: Middlesex
3. CLOSETS. The Passion of Henry James: The Master
The Two Oscar Wildes: The Importance of Being Earnest
The tale of two Housmans: The Invention of Love
The Truman Show: The Stories and Letters of Truman Capote
Winged messages: Angels in America
An affair to remember: Brokeback Mountain
The man behind the curtain: John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
4. THEATER. The Greek Way: Greek tragedies in New York
Bitter-Sweet: Private Lives
Double Take: The Producers
Harold Pinter's Celebration: Pinter retrospective at Lincoln Center
5. WAR. Theaters of War: Thucydides' History
The Bad Boy of Athens: Medea on Broadway
For the birds: Nathan Lane's Frogs
September 11 at the movies: World Trade Center and United 93.
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