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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | December 25, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on the play "The Living Corpse," written by Leo Tolstoy and performed at Civic Repertory Theater. The author says, Tolstoy aimed at nothing more original or profound than the story of an amiable drunkard, and that he intended to awaken in the audience nothing except that facile and half-envious pity which is so easy to arouse in behalf of an attractive young sinner. Certainly the finest single scene is the one in which the hero listens to the singing of the gypsies. It is marked by a poetry, by a touch of ecstasy, absent from all the others, and its effect is not by any means wholly due to the beauty of the singing itself, for it is this scene which seems to announce the theme of the drama.

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DRAMA; TOLSTOY, Leo, graf, 1828-1910; ALCOHOLICS; NOMADS; PERFORMING arts; THEATER
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