a party that runs from 2:00 AM to of Virginia Woolf?, Who’s Afraid dawn, an older couple named George and Martha furnish endless drinks to a young couple named Nick and Honey while also raging at each other. At the same time, the host and hostess gradually make Nick and Honey the victims of a game called Get the Guest. In particular, George ridicules Honey for her mousiness and phantom pregnancies, and Nick for his witlessness, his latent fascism, and above all for the boozy impotence that aborts his impulse to Hump the Hostess: an impotence that turns this would-be into a the “stud” “houseboy.” By time Nick and Honey are pushed out the door as dawn breaks, they have been nearly exterminated. In a recent essay on hospitality in plays, Julia Shakespeare’s Lupton contends that guest is always a prisoner, not fully able to “the determine his own departure, fundamentally at the mercy of his host” (Thinking go so far as that. with Shakespeare [2011] 175). I wouldn’t But how many people can honestly say that in their lives they’ve never felt trapped by a hostess or host? As Luis Buñuel and now Thomas
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a party that runs from 2:00 AM to dawn, an older couple named George and Martha furnish endless drinks to a young couple named Nick and Honey while also raging at each other. At the same time, the host and hostess gradually make Nick and Honey the victims of a game called Get the Guest. In particular, George ridicules Honey for her mousiness and phantom pregnancies, and Nick for his witlessness, his latent fascism, and above all for the boozy impotence that aborts his impulse to Hump the Hostess: an impotence that turns this would-be “stud” into a “houseboy.” By the time Nick and Honey are pushed out the door as dawn breaks, they have been nearly exterminated. In a recent essay on hospitality in Shakespeare’s plays, Julia Lupton contends that “the guest is always a prisoner, not fully able to determine his own departure, fundamentally at the mercy of his host” (Thinking with Shakespeare [2011] 175). I wouldn’t go so far as that. But how many people can honestly say that they’ve never in their lives felt trapped by a hostess or host? As Luis Buñuel and now Thomas
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