Scorn is a shortening of Old French escarn, of Germanic origin. The phrase hell hath no fury like a woman scorned is a version of a line in William Congreve's 1697 play The Mourning Bride : âHeav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'dâ.
Which means heâs also a first-class storyteller and a first-class self-deceiver, and that weâre going to hang on to his words. âFencesâ: The revival of August Wilsonâs play at the Cort Theater stars Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in a marriage brought to aching life. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
Troy Maxson is a big man with a big personality, a troubled, bitter giant who believes he owes his family everything â from his paycheck to his soul. He's the protagonist â you can't quite say hero, except maybe if you put tragic in front of it â of August Wilson's play Fences. And in the words of director Kenny Leon, there is not a character, definitely not in American theater, that is on the scale of a Troy Maxson. ...