Nov 18, 2008

Lydie Breeze | Lydie Breeze

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Author: John Guare
First Published: 1982
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Mythic
Time of Work: 1895
Setting: Nantucket Island
Genres: Drama, Psychological drama, Mythological literature, Farce, Dark comedy
Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, Sex or sexuality, Nineteenth century, New England, Corruption, Idealism, Syphilis
Locales: Nantucket Island

Characters Discussed

Lydie Hickman, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Joshua Hickman and Lydie Breeze Hickman. Highly sensitive and theatrical, Lydie has comically flighty ways that do not quite hide the emotional maelstrom underlying her adolescent psyche. Obsessed with her mother’s suicide and embarrassed by her father’s stint in prison, Lydie is worried that she will never become a woman because she has not yet begun to menstruate. She claims that she hates men in general and her father in particular, but in reality she yearns for adulthood, the attention of men, and a...

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Lydie Breeze | Lydie Breeze

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