At first I saw no connection between the two plays I saw last week: "New Jerusalem," writer David Ives' play about the excommunication of 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, and Moliere's classic "Don Juan." But upon closer scrutiny, I discovered they had more in common than I thought, primarily the fact that neither Spinoza nor his fictional contemporary Don Juan was willing to hew to...
Stage Animal / What Spinoza and Don Juan have in common
Although the 17th-century Jewish philosopher and his fictional contemporary were vanquished by their societies, victory was theirs in the long run.
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