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Thornton Wilder referred to The Alcestiad as "a mixture of religious revival, mother-love-dynamite, and heroic daring-do." In it, he retells the ancient legend of Alcestis, Queen of Thessaly, who gave her life for her husband Admetus, beloved of Apollo, and was brought back from Hell by Hercules. When the brave and confused Alcestis returns from the dead, asking large questions about what matters most in life and how we lead it, we catch more than a glimpse of Emily in Act III of Our T No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It sounds all very serious and as the original story from Euripides is over 2,400 years old, it may be understandable that Wilder’s play isn’t all that popular. There are several moments of levity, however – Apollo bantering with Death, the irascible and foggy-brained Tiresias, and an inebriated Hercules, among others, and you can easily imagine the play being performed on-stage. Wilder touches on themes of life’s meaning, and the difficulty of knowing God (or in this case, the Gods, plural). As in his other works, he is wisely reserved about trying to provide answers to such unanswerable things. He also is attentive to detail, and follows classical form by including a ‘Satyr play’ about the three Fates at the end of the three acts.
Just this quote, on God:
“But if they did exist, these gods, how would they speak to us? In what language would they talk to us? Compared to them, we are diseased and dying and deaf and blind and as busy as clowns. Why, there are some who even say that they love us. Could you understand that? What kind of love is that, Princess, when there is so great a gulf between the lovers? That would be an unhappy love, no doubt about that.” ( )