In the world of <i>The Age of Innocence</i>, a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner tables. In … - Wendy Wasserstein

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In the world of The Age of Innocence, a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner tables. In contemporary New York, a mere change of fashion can eliminate a place setting; therefore, the need to maintain a rigidity not of morals, but of taste, seems all the more desperate.

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About Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein (October 18 1950 – January 30 2006) was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

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