The Old GloryIn the three plays in The Old Glory Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno the most powerful figure in postwar American poetry confronts the most haunting American fiction writers of the nineteenth century. The result is a mythical, nightmare history of three centuries in America. In Endecott and the Red Cross, Hawthorne's Puritan governor, horrified by his colony's high living, declares, "Everything in America will

Under the care of Medical Officer Captain Daniel Garland

only half the danger is over

and an atmosphere of portentous suspense sets the scene for the tragedy that will follow

Grey is forced to question the nature of justice and what any of us is entitled to do to gain our freedom

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Jack Absolute is famous

a herb-scented garden

Ten years later and Charles Brightwell

She throws herself into his war

Heather Martin explores Child's lifelong fascination with America

this is Tom Stoppard in the voice of Odysseus's wife recalling how the Trojan War 'took away my husband for ten years

exploring her father's library