But It Does Move

'"BUT IT DOES MOVE!" INDIVIDUALS, INSTITUTIONS AND THOUGHT CONTROL

Research topics centering on this theme can find many examples in literature, film, and history. The cult television series The Prisoner explores this topic at length. In history, figures such as Thomas More, Galileo, and men and women accused of witchcraft faced governmental attempts to control their speech. George Orwell's famous novel 1984 is the classic example of the inevitable damage that thought control does to the individual.

Yet, every state has a need to pursue its own national security and the physical and economic security of its citizens. What should be the balance struck between the individual's right to speak and act and the government's right to control speech and action in order to protect both that individual, others and the continued existence and credibility of the state?

Galileo

Barrie Stavis' play Lamp at Midnight expresses the desire of the individual to pursue knowledge.

Bibliography

General Works on Stavis

Ayling, Ronald and Charles Davidson, Barrie Stavis: Making History, Staging History, 2 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 227 (1990).

Goldstein, Ezra, The Passionate, Personal Plays of Barrie Stavis, 2 Cardozo Studied in Law and Literature 279 (1988).

Larner, Daniel, Freedom and Dignity: Barrie Stavis' Dream of Forged Character in an Age of Emptiness, 2 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 259 (1990).

Nagy, Peter, Barrie Stavis and Justice, 2 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 177 (1990).

(The Plays of Barrie Stavis), 2 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature. Special Issue (Fall/Winter 1990).

Shore, Herbert, To Side With the Light: Conscience and Power in the Drama of Barrie Stavis, 2 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 293 (1990).

Critiques of Lamp at Midnight

Klaic, Dragan, From Midnight Towards Dawn: An Eastern European View of Barrie Stavis' Lamp at Midnight, 2 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 145 (1990).

Lamp at Midnight: A Play About Galileo by Barrie Stavis and Essay on Stavis' Work, 2 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature i (1990); 2 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 127 (1990).

Smirnov, B. A., Review Towards Possible Production of Barrie Stavis' Lamp at Midnight, 2 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 157 (1990).

Stavis, Barrie, Lamp at Midnight: A Play about Galileo, 2 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 13 (Fall/Winter 1990).

Weimann, Robert, Authority and the Discourse of Modernity in Lamp at Midnight, 2 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 127 (1990).

Websites

The Galileo Project (Rice University)

Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence, Italy

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615

Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

Bibliography

Eichenlaub, Justin, The Tyranny of Economics

Websites

The Ibsen Site (in Norwegian and English)