American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Vachel Lindsay to Elinor Wylie. supplement I.. part 2Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important American writers. Presents scholar-signed essays prepared by experts in the field. |
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... play , The Children's Hour ( 1934 ) , is a paradigm of the well - crafted , as opposed to the merely well - made , play . It is unusually gripping because Hellman takes the act of lying and links it with one of our deepest fears - total ...
... play , The Children's Hour ( 1934 ) , is a paradigm of the well - crafted , as opposed to the merely well - made , play . It is unusually gripping because Hellman takes the act of lying and links it with one of our deepest fears - total ...
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... play with clear - cut issues as in The Cradle Will Rock , where a galvanic performance will com- pensate for the ... play to be about fascism ; and eventually she would write two such plays , Watch on the Rhine and The Searching Wind ...
... play with clear - cut issues as in The Cradle Will Rock , where a galvanic performance will com- pensate for the ... play to be about fascism ; and eventually she would write two such plays , Watch on the Rhine and The Searching Wind ...
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... played the Game of Joan as well as a realistic playwright given an an- ti - realistic play could . From her Hollywood days she learned that the rest of adaptation consists of keeping the essence of the work intact as the work changes ...
... played the Game of Joan as well as a realistic playwright given an an- ti - realistic play could . From her Hollywood days she learned that the rest of adaptation consists of keeping the essence of the work intact as the work changes ...
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