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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The House of Sleeping Beauties is a 1983 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. Hwang's fourth play, it is an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's novella House of the Sleeping Beauties. The play depicts Kawabata and how he might have come to have... 
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 Fanfare Sleeping Beauty
01/01/2008: 531 words, approx. 2 pages TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty * George Weldon, cond, Philharmonia O * CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE 3932382 (2 CDs: 118:31) The back liner in the jewel box has the following announcement: "For this classic recording, the first of 'Sleeping Beauty' to be made in stereo, the... summary from source:
The Sunday Telegraph London The Sleeping Beauty
05/21/2006: 936 words, approx. 3 pages It's Lilac Fairy time again at Covent Garden, where the Royal Ballet is unveiling yet another Sleeping Beauty. This latest production is a modified revival of the famous 1946 version, which was designed and dressed by Oliver Messel. When the Royal Opera House...
  Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Yukio Mishima
468 words, approx. 2 pages
"House of the Sleeping Beauties" is most certainly an esoteric masterpiece. (p. 7) [It] is dominated not by openness and clarity but by a strangling tightness. In place of limpidness and purity we have density; rather than the broad, open world we have a closed room. The spirit of the author, flinging away all inhibitions, shows itself in its boldest form. I have … likened "House of the Sleeping Beauties" to a submarine in which people are trapped and the air is gradually ... summary from source:
Critical Review by The Times Literary Supplement
449 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following review, the critic asserts that the stories in Kawabata's House of the Sleeping Beauties are "linked … by the theme of a lonely subject and his peculiar eroticism, and by the interplay of reality and fancy within a lonely mind."
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Critical Review by Paul Stuewe
396 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following excerpt, Stuewe asserts that in House of the Sleeping Beauties, "Kawabata's writing … confronts the most basic contradictions of human life with poise and serenity, and makes high art out of the existential ebb and flow that will ultimately lay us low."
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