The Shark
"See the shark with teeth like razors" (P.5)—the play's first image is one of its most famous, working its way into the heads of fans of Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, and tons of other s...
The Fair in Soho
The play opens in a "Fair in Soho. The beggars are begging. The thieves are stealing, the whores are whoring" (P. 2-4). This setting stands in for all of London, and perhaps the entire capitalist w...