Lillian Hellman

Six Plays by Lillian Hellman

Buch

These six plays span nearly twenty years of theatre and display the range of Lillian Hellman's dramatic gifts. The Children's Hour (1934), her first play, was considered shocking at the time; it concerns the devastating effects of a child's malicious charge of lesbianism against two of her teachers. Days to Come (1936) is about the tragic consequences of strike-breaking in a small Midwestern community. The Little Foxes (1939) and Another Part of the Forest (1946) together constitute a chilling study of the financial and psychological conflicts within the Hubbards, a wealthy and rapacious Southern family. Watch on the Rhine (1941), the story o… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-394-74112-3
EAN: 9780394741123
Produktnummer: 19335086
Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1979
Seitenangabe: 512 S.

Über den Autor

Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans and educated at New York University and Columbia University. She wrote The Searching Wind and Toys in the Attic and collaborated with Richard Wilbur on the libretto for a musical version of Voltaire's Candide. She died on June 30, 1984.