___A Daughter's A Daughter by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub

As I discussed in class, John Logan’s play Never the Sinner , which deals with Leopold and Loeb’s trial and was written in the lat e 1980s, a time much more removed from the actual event than Rope , is one of my favorite plays. These men and the crime they committed for intellectualism, for the danger of it all, fascinate me. As a student of history and a lover of theatre and drama, I am particularly drawn to plays that successfully mix both history and theatrics. Both Rope and Never the Sinner are enormously successful in dramatically examining the crime and trial of these two characters.

Here are the facts, for they are particularly important in understanding the theatre, film, art and literature that was inspired by this crime: Leopold and Loeb were two of the most promising students at the University of Chicago in 1924. They both came from very well to do, blue blooded American families. Both were astonishingly intelligent. Inspired by a darkly construed inte rpretation of Nietzsche’s super man philosophy, they meticulously planned the kidnapping and murder of a 14-year-old boy with whose family they were acquainted. They picked him up in a rental car, bludgeoned him to death, and then poured hydrochloric acid over his face in order to make the body more difficult to identify. They then sent a ransom note to the boy’s mother. Everything fell apart when the body was discovered and the killers tried hastily to cover the tracks of the ransom note. During questioning, their alibis fell apart and they both went to trial, defended by Clarence Darrow, perhaps the greatest la wyer in this country’s history. Darrow’s defense was that the corruption of intellect into which Leopold and Loeb fell into could have happened to any of us. It wasn’t their fault that they interpreted Nietzsche’s philosophy in such a way and they can’t be blamed entirely, though Darrow had them each plead guilty. They were Leah Barish Peck, Theatre In England Seminar 2009-2010

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