I read the play: pompous, overbearing husband, an ambitious doctor. Separated from wife--neurasthenic housewife. Conflict over custody of female dog named "Nunca." A nice twist at the end, otherwise fairly banal. I chose to teach this play because? I don't even remember. I always need to surprise myself by assigning a work I've never read myself.

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Perloff on Merwin in "Poetic License," one of those piece-by-piece dismantlings of a poet that she does so well. Not much is left of him after she is done.