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2) Six plays
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Six acclaimed plays by Lillian Hellman span nearly twenty years of the American theater from 1934 to 1951.
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A memoir of the witch hunting and blacklisting years of the 1950's.
"In 1952 playwright Lillian Hellman was summoned to testify on her putatively un-American activities before the congressional committee charged with maintaining our Americanism. That was the year when Joseph McCarthy, at the top of his power, was reelected to the Senate; but she did not appear before his Senate committee. She was summoned by a committee of the lower house--the one...
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As one of the first American journalists to enter the newly liberated concentration camps in the closing days of the Holocaust, Meyer Levin wished the world to know of the horror he had found. Seizing upon Anne Frank's Diary as a poignant voice to tell the tale, he helped to arrange for its American publication and secured from Anne's father the right to adapt it for the theater. But Levin's overtly "Jewish" treatment was rejected in favor of a play...
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This companion volume to Schlueter's Feminist Rereeading of Modern American Drama contains 20 essays that focus on female playwrights rather than on feminist interpretations of male playwrights. It includes chapters on four black women playwrights--Lorraine Hansberry, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Childress, and Ntozake Shange. Of particular interest are Linda Hart's "Canonizing Lesbians?" and Dinnah Pladott's provocative essay on Gertrude Stein, which...
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