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2 unusual facts about Sweeney Agonistes


Sweeney Agonistes

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, '"HOO HOO HOO": Some Episodes in the Construction of Modern Whiteness', American Literature 67:4 (December 1995), pp.

The characters in "Fragment of an Prologue" consist of the female prostitutes Doris Dorrance and Dusty who are visited by Sam Wauchope, a former soldier from the Canadian Expeditionary Force, who introduces his war buddies that he has brought along: Mr. Klipstein and Mr. Krumpacker (two American businessmen) and Captain Horsfall .



see also

Edward Einhorn

With that company, Edward Einhorn has directed T. S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes, Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle, and Richard Foreman's My Head Was a Sledgehammer among other works.

Peter Zadek

He studied at the Old Vic, and his first productions included Oscar Wilde’s Salome and T. S. Eliot’s Sweeney Agonistes.