This excellent comedic play is about an impending marriage between "a member of the great and good middle class with one of the vicious and corrupt aristocracy (which would be) a misalliance." It is also about the differences (misalliance) between parents and children, and between the leadership of the English people, people with no leadership skills, and the people they are controlling. Two adventurers appear in Hypatia's mundane life, a young man and young woman. Hypatia's father tries to seduce the woman and she tries to seduce the man. Then a stranger appears with a gun saying he came to kill Hypatia's father.
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Dr. Israel Drazin is the author of sixteen books, including a series of five volumes on the Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible, which he co-authors with Dr. Stanley M. Wagner, and a series of four books on the twelfth century philosopher Moses Maimonides, the latest being Maimonides: Reason Above All, published by Gefen Publishing House, www.gefenpublishing.com. The Orthodox Union (OU) and Yeshiva University publish weekly chapters of Drazin and Wagner's latest book Let's Study Onkelos on www.ou.org/torah and on www.yutorah@yutorah.org. Drazin's website is located at: http://booksnthoughts.com.
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