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.
Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. Two hours, 30 minutes. $20-$58. (415) 388-5208. www.marintheatre.org. The passions in August Wilson's musical dialogue reach peaks of operatic intensity in the Marin Theatre Company Fences that opened Tuesday.
African-American playwright August Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for his play Fences, and earned a second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson.