Scorn is a shortening of Old French escarn, of Germanic origin. The phrase hell hath no fury like a woman scorned is a version of a line in William Congreve's 1697 play The Mourning Bride : âHeav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'dâ.
Which means heâs also a first-class storyteller and a first-class self-deceiver, and that weâre going to hang on to his words. âFencesâ: The revival of August Wilsonâs play at the Cort Theater stars Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in a marriage brought to aching life. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
Bruce Norrisâ play âClybourne Park,â which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for drama and last nightâs Tony Award for best play, overflows with dirty words.n the first act of âClybourne Park,â which is understood as Chicagoâs Lincoln Park, Karl Lindner (the only white character in âRaisinâ) is attempting to convince the white homeowners selling their house to the black family of âRaisinâ to renege on the sale and preserve the neighborhood as a lily-white enclave.