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All the World's a Stage: Rope (1929)
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All the World's a Stage: Rope (1929)

When ideas have deadly consequences.

This week the CenterForLit crew discusses Rope, a play that investigates the real world consequences of dangerous ideas in the vein of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Based on a true story, Rope follows two students who decide to put their professor’s teaching to the test by seeing if they can get away with murder.

In the historical trial which follo…

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