According to a story in the Sunday Times, the group that produced Robert Lowell’s Prometheus Bound at the Yale School of Drama had expected to evoke the enthusiasm only of the embattled cognoscenti
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But when I came to think over my impressions of the show itself
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The starting point of the enterprise was Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound
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