Descents into the maelstrom: new productions plunge into the murky depths of Poe's writings--and his psyche.(Critic's Notebook)(Critical Essay)
American Theatre, October, 2003 by Wren, Celia
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> "The soul is a cypher, in the sense of a cryptograph," wrote the author and amateur cryptographer Edgar Allan Poe, a man whose feverish life--a chronicle of obsessions, depressions, hysterical gestures and determinedly self-destructive behavior--goes a fair way toward proving his point.Born in Boston in 1809 to a family of actors, Poe achieved celebrity with works like the poem "The Raven" and the story "The Tell-Tale Heart," and he managed to maneuver himself repeatedly into influential positions as an editor during the magazine boom of the early 19th ...
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