Author: Lillian HellmanPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Four Plays: The Children's Hour. Days to Come. The Little Foxes. Watch on the Rhine
Author: Lillian HellmanFour Playæ
Author: Lillian HellmanFour Plays, by Lillian Hellman
Author: Lillian HellmanPublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Four Plays by Lillian Hellman. The Children's Hour. Days to Come. The Little Foxes. Watch on the Rhine. With an Introd. by the Author
Author: Lillian HellmanConversations with Lillian Hellman
Author: Lillian HellmanPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878052943
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
From six decades, 26 interviews with the renowned playwright that show her pungency, directness, honesty, & wit. Includes three previously unprinted interviews from television broadcasts--with Dan Rather, Bill Moyers, & Marilyn Berger.
The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers
Author: James KarmanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804794774
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1025
Book Description
This volume of correspondence, the last in a three-volume edition, spans a pivotal moment in American history: the mid-twentieth century, from the beginning of World War II, through the years of rebuilding and uneasy peace that followed, to the election of President John F. Kennedy. Robinson Jeffers published four important books during this period—Be Angry at the Sun (1941), Medea (1946), The Double Axe (1948), and Hungerfield (1954). He also faced changes to his hometown village of Carmel, experienced the rewards of being a successful dramatist in the United States and abroad, and endured the loss of his wife Una. Jeffers' letters, and those of Una written in the decade prior to her death, offer a vivid chronicle of the life and times of a singular and visionary poet.
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1930s
Author: Anne FletcherPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350153605
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Clifford Odets: Waiting for Lefty (1935), Awake and Sing! (1935) and Golden Boy (1937); * Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939), and Days to Come (1936); * Langston Hughes: Mulatto (1935), Mule Bone (1930, with Zora Neale Hurston) and Little Ham (1936); * Gertrude Stein: Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938), Four Saints in Three Acts (written in 1927, published in 1932) and Listen to Me (1936).
Four Plays
Author: Lillian HellmanPublisher:
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Category : Lesbians
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Dashiell Hammett
Author: Sally ClinePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628723785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the figure of the hard-boiled detective, from the Continental Op to Sam Spade—immortalized on film by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon—and the more glamorous Thin Man, also made iconic with the aid of Hollywood. A brilliant writer, Hammett was a complex and enigmatic man. After 1934 until his death in 1961, he published no more novels and suffered from a writer’s block that both shamed and maimed him. He is identified with his tough protagonists, but his tuberculosis compromised his masculine identity and alcoholism may have been his answer. A former Pinkerton detective who valued honesty, he was attracted to women who lied outrageously, most notably Lillian Hellman, with whom he conducted a thirty-year affair. A controversial political activist who stood up for civil liberty, he was also a very private man. In this compact new biography, Sally Cline uses fresh research, including interviews with Hammett’s family and Hellman’s heir, to reexamine the life and works of the writer whom Raymond Chandler called “the ace performer.”
Understanding Lillian Hellman
Author: Alice GriffinPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570033025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
People remain fascinated by her love affairs, her thirty-year relationship with the detective fiction writer Dashiell Hammett, and her visits to Spain during its civil war and to Russia during World War II."--BOOK JACKET.