Will an American audience feel this spell? Here is an interpretation by an English poet, who draws his material from yet another Englishman’s sympathetic but delicately balanced study of a great ...

Last summer Judith, a one-act opera in English based on the apocryphal legend of Judith and Holofernes,* the music by Eugene Goossens, the text by Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett, had its world première ...

Judith strips myth down to Freudian psychology and debunks belief with Shavian iconoclasm—the tactics by which modern man burglarizes himself of an agelong heritage of mystery. In this 34-year-old ...