Apius and Virginia Video: The Death of Virginia
Virginia persuades her father that the only way out of her shameful situation is for him to kill her. She forgives him, and he proceeds with a formal execution. He then tries to commit suicide, but it stayed by an allegorical character, who proposes a grisly alternative. R.B. Apius and Virginia. Performed Lancaster, Cambridge, and Groningen, 1991; filmed Lancaster. |