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Written in free verse, this drawing room drama by the poet and author of The Cocktail Party and Murder In The Cathedral is a revealing character study of one man who has loved not wisely but perhaps too well. Lord Claverton, celebrated and respected in society, exerts considerable influence especially over his devoted daughter Monica which angers her beau, Charles. Forced by illness into early retirement, Lord Claverton receives two unexpected visitors...
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"Joaquín Murieta, the historical person, was a Chilean highwayman who was captured and executed in California on July 24, 1853. The hero of this dramatic poem is an adventurous young man who sails from Valparaíso to San Francisco in 1849-50 with his wife, Teresa, and his friend, Three-Fingered Jack, to strike it rich in the goldfields. But, as Neruda puts it, Murieta 'never guessed that his nationality would be divided and his personality diminished.'...
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