Shipwrecked! - Actors Theatre of Louisville

Work Cited/Allusions
Allusions
a literary device quickly stimulating different ideas and associations using only few words; the act of
alluding; making indirect reference; derived from the Latin word allsus meaning to play.
From the Script
“I was born in the year 1632… in the
city of York...”
Where It's From
Opening of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
“After we had rode about a league and
a half a raging wave, mountain-like
came rolling astern and took us with
such a fury… and furious as an enemy”
Shipwreck scene from Robinson Crusoe, chapter 3.
“Oh Romeo…”
“…Let me not,/ Since I have my
dukedom got/And pardon’d the
deceiver, dwell/ In this bare island by
your spell;”
Romeo and Juliet, “balcony scene” (Act II, scene ii),
spoken by the young lover Juliet.
The Tempest, Epilogue, spoken by the great magician
Prospero.
“My city is a grumbling monster now,
grinding its gears and spouting its
smoke, all day and all night, without
cease.”
Louis refers to the Industrial Revolution—the momentous
era in British history when manufacturing moved away
from farms in the countryside and into large machinebased
factories in the city.
Work Cited
"Donald Margulies (1954 - )." Imagi-nation.com 2008. 10 Nov. 2008 .
Mackenzie, John M. The Victorian Vision. New York: Abrams, 2001.
Margulies, Donald. "Los Angels Times: Dramatist Donald Margulies Sees the Stage in a Fresh Light." 2007.
Los Angeles Times. 14 Dec. 2008 .
Maslen, Geoffrey. The Most Amazing Story a Man Ever Lived to Tell. Australia: Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1977.
“Memorial University DAI: The World on Mercator’s Projection.” Collections.mun.ca. 2008. 11 Nov. 2008 < http://
collections.mun.ca/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/maps&CISOPTR=0&CISOBOX=1&REC=1>.
"PBS Hollywood Presents: Collected Stories – On Writing – Donald Margulies." Pbs.org. 2002. 10 Nov. 2008
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Swisher, Clarice. Victorian England. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2000.
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