The Lesson

The Lesson

The Lesson

Eugene Ionesco, Donald Watson

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The Lesson

The Lesson

Eugene Ionesco, Donald Watson

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The Professor's private lesson begins well: his pupil seems remarkably gifted. Suddenly he discovers she cannot subtract. The lesson gets more frenzied as he persists in forcing her to understand subtraction. Maddened by her insensibility, he'stabs her. The maid clucks with dismay. This, she complains, is the fortieth to be stabbed today.

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  • Time Period: Contemporary

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Eugene Ionesco

Eugene Ionesco
(born Nov. 26, 1909, Slatina, Rom.died March 28, 1994, Paris, France) was a Romanian-born French playwright. He studied in Bucharest and Paris, where he lived from 1945. His first one-act antiplay, The Bald Soprano (1950), inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and help ...
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