Wallace Shawn's hard-hitting monologue The Fever, written in 1990, is to be staged again in London.
His book on childbed fever, written at the end of his life, reads more like a manic manifesto than a treatise.
Walt Whitman caught the fever, writing a poem for The Times of June 27 that began floridly: "Over sea, hither from Niphon,/Courteous, the Princes of Asia, swart-cheek'd princes.... " On and on it went like that.
The more recent original songs Mr. Stigers performed — "You've Got the Fever" (written with Tom Jensen) and two collaborations with Larry Goldings, "The Dreams of Yesterday" and "I Need You," discard commercial formulas to explore abject passion, regret and marital ambivalence in stripped-down directness.
FEVER Written and directed by Alex Winter; director of photography, Joe DeSalvo; edited by Thom Zimmy; music by Joe Delia; production designer, Mark Ricker; produced by Christian Martin; released by Cowboy Booking International.
Even the seasoned Irish war correspondent William Howard Russell, who had chronicled the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, succumbed to McClellan fever, writing, "There is an indefinable air of success about him and something of the 'man of destiny'".
"Within a matter of months, the nation was seized by telegraph fever," Gross writes.
Best-selling author, Nick Hornby, in his 1992 soccer memoir Fever Pitch, writes "The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score".
Fever is written and produced by a crack team of pop songwriters.
The ebb of fern fever, Mr. Allen wrote, had "pricked a precious delusion of the Victorian gentry: that refined tastes were possible only in possessors of refined social backgrounds".
