The Turn of the Screw (opera) used in the lesson scene have been examined in more detail for their paedophilic innuendos. The line "The ceremony of innocence is drowned" sung by Quint and Miss Jessel is taken from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. Notes Cited sources Other sources The Turn of the Screw (opera) The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas". The libretto
William Archibald (playwright) the choreographer Charles Weidman: a verse accompaniment for "On My Mother's Side". He also wrote the text for José Limón's "War Lyrics". In 1945, Archibald wrote the book and lyrics for "Carib Song", which was staged at the Adelphi Theatre with choreography by Katherine Dunham and a score by Baldwin Bergersen. Archibald then went on to write another musical, three plays and the libretto for a ballet opera: "Bay Harbour". His first play, "The Innocents", based on the Henry James novella "The Turn of the Screw", opened on Broadway in 1950. With Truman Capote he wrote the screenplay for the