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From: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
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Subject: Pelius and Melisande
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 02:48:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 02:48:28 1986
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As a marked change of pace from my last posting,  I would like to
recomend a series with a very definate self-contained beginning, middle,
and ending.  Pelius and Melisande is a very close translation and
adaptation  (in 2 issues) of a late romantic, just pre-modern, symbolist play, 
by on Maeterlink, drawn by P. Craig Russell.  Russell has, apparently
been adapting opera's for some time, although I haven't I haven't
seen any others.  Russell's very ornate, very static, art-nouvue(sp.)
style is absolutely perfect for the subject matter.  In a word it
is *Beautiful.* 

The play itself makes rather awkward reading (it might work 
better on stage, I don't know) making this perhaps the only
time I would actually have preferred Russell to have taken some
liberties with the script, but even so the story though simple, is
definately powerful.  Symbolism can be appreciated or ignored as
desired.

				Have a nice day
					Soren Petersen