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'''''The Happiness Cage''''' is a 1970 play by American playwright Dennis J. Reardon (1944- ) [http://www.indiana.edu/~thtr/people/bio/dReardon.shtml].
 
'''''The Happiness Cage''''' is a 1970 play by American playwright Dennis J. Reardon (1944- ) [http://www.indiana.edu/~thtr/people/bio/dReardon.shtml].
  
== The original text ==
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== Synopsis ==
 
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Set in 1960s USA, patients in the Vietnam War veterans hospital are induced to participate in a programme of experimental brain implantation designed to achieve conformable neurological happiness. One resists, preferring the limitations with his own identity to the technologically achievable bliss.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 08:17, 23 July 2015

The Happiness Cage is a 1970 play by American playwright Dennis J. Reardon (1944- ) [1].

Synopsis

Set in 1960s USA, patients in the Vietnam War veterans hospital are induced to participate in a programme of experimental brain implantation designed to achieve conformable neurological happiness. One resists, preferring the limitations with his own identity to the technologically achievable bliss.

Translations and adaptations

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