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A Woman Without a Name
Romulus Linney
其他書名
A Play in Two Acts
出版Dramatists Play Service, 1986
ISBN03175299199780317529913
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VEVmVRq2J_QC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The place is a small American town. The time 1900. As the play begins the characters enter and seat themselves in a semi-circle of antique chairs. The last to enter is the Woman, who carries a ledger (her journal) from which she starts to read. It is quickly evident that the journal is not only a record of the Woman's daily life, but also a measure of her intellectual and emotional growth as she copes with the trials and tribulations with which she and her family are beset. As her story unfolds, the various characters involved in each episode leave their chairs and enter the action, while the others watch in silence. The Woman is sorely tried as she loses one daughter to a bungled abortion, another to a brain tumor and a son to TB. But, despite all, she manages to grow in learning and strength of character; to deal with her husband's descent into alcoholism; to forgive the young doctor whose clumsiness caused her daughter's death; and to accept the malevolence of her surviving son, who holds her responsible for the tragedies which the family has suffered.