Of Mice and Men (opera) opera. The opera was included for performance in the 2011 Opera Australia season and was directed by Australian film director Bruce Beresford.Sarasota Opera presented it in 2013. The Manitoba Opera and The Austin Opera performed it in 2016. SCENE ONE. "Of Mice and Men" is the tragic story of two migrant ranch workers' pursuit of a simple dream: to own a small house and farm of their own. George and his slow-witted traveling companion, Lennie, who has the physique and strength of a giant and a child's mind, are in constant trouble with their employers and the law because of
The Story of Marie Powell: Wife to Mr. Milton Graves's account of Milton: 'Before leaving the anti-Miltonists, I feel compelled to deplore Robert Graves' "Wife to Mr. Milton": it is an unfortunate book which might do much to deepen the erroneous impression of Milton as a surly and narrow-minded puritan.' In Graves's defence Ian McCormick has argued that 'The satiric reduction is a necessary one, for it appears to be part of a larger uneasiness in the text concerning the self-aggrandizement of the reasoning subject that might result in the straitjacket of the purely systematic or, at worst, the totalitarian ideologies of the modern period.' This novel therefore shares