He’ll make you change your mind.
EVE. No he won’t, because I will believe nothing until I’ve tested him. (The Service for Representing Adam, Lines 276-286. Bevington p. 93-94)
In the case of Representatio, both Abraham and Adam are effective in their own ways, equally effective but very different. Adam does a great job at filling in the blanks of the Garden of Eden and beyond, but Abraham is a great ‘Aesop’s Fable’ of sorts about coming back from sin. The dialogue in Abraham is old-fashioned, and, especially in the first act, focuses especially on God. It can also be incredibly dramatic at times: ABRAHAM (Rocking with Panic). I have suffered an evil beyond any other. I have been struck a blow I cannot bear.
This feels like it should be something someone says when they’re murdered, but here Abraham is using it to express his feelings at his daughter going into prostitution. Still, the dialogue here is effective at getting the point across, and is entertaining in its sometimes over-dramatic nature. The dialogue in Adam feels even more old-fashioned to a modern reader, but according to the author of the introduction to the