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"ref": "1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part II, Chapter First, page 56",
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"ref": "1943, Louis Paul [pseudonym; Leroi Placet], chapter 5, in This Is My Brother, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, page 99",
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"text": "This unnecessary process of recomposition can also attack a playwright most effectively in the last two weeks of rehearsal, when the production is usually in pieces, the actors restive, and a quick solution to everyone’s discomfort appears to be an amputation of one of the limbs of the script. (In the way, say, that medieval chirurgeons, failing a cure, would open the patient’s veins just to seem to be doing something.)",
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"ref": "2015, Laurens De Vos, “Always Looking Back at the Voyeur: Jan Fabre’s Extreme Acts on Stage”, in George Rodosthenous, editor, Theatre as Voyeurism: The Pleasures of Watching, Palgrave Macmillan, part I (Voyeurism and Directing the Gaze), pages 35 and 47–48",
"text": "I am Blood and History of Tears (2005), in which not only tears but urine and sweat are examined, continue this series of performances in which Fabre (almost like a medieval chirurgeon) cuts open the body to study its fluids and let them run free. […] The show remains an unreal story, and the subversion of any claims to its high stakes and its alleged realness comes from both medieval chirurgeons who appear as mirroring figures at both sides of the sorceress.",
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},
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"text": "This unnecessary process of recomposition can also attack a playwright most effectively in the last two weeks of rehearsal, when the production is usually in pieces, the actors restive, and a quick solution to everyone’s discomfort appears to be an amputation of one of the limbs of the script. (In the way, say, that medieval chirurgeons, failing a cure, would open the patient’s veins just to seem to be doing something.)",
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