Notes
1The title is taken from T. S. Eliot's suggested cover notes for the play, quoted in Herring 1995:276.
2This could, space permitting, be illuminatingly explored against Claude Lévi-Strauss's concept of the exchange of women.
3Indeed, the gryphon could almost be perceived in the light of what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari term the ‘becoming-animal’, as a ‘way out, the line of escape’ from patriarchal oppression (Deleuze and Guattari 1986:35).