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Elmer Rice
"Frank Rice, whose career in the American theater spanned half a century, was at his death in 1967 the 'Dean of American playwrights.' His initial Broadway success came in 1914 when Eugene O'Neill was known only as the son of the actor James O'Neill, and his last work was contemporary with that of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Edward Albee." - book jacket
The Adding Machine
This constantly interesting play shows, in outline, the life history and, in its later scenes, the death history of Mr. Zero, a cog in the vast machine of modern business -- from cover.
Dream Girl
THE STORY: Tells of a delightful young woman who quite inefficiently runs a bookstore. She is one of those charming but dreamy, over-imaginative young women whom the slightest suggestion may send off into the most extravagant daydreams. In her own
LIFE
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Elmer Rice, a Playwright's Vision of America
A thorough and detailed study of this playwright's remarkable long and productive career that stretched from 1914-1963, and included over 50 plays and a Pulitzer Prize. It establishes that Rice'e impact on the American theater probably surpasses that of any other American playwright.
White Collar Fictions
In White Collar Fictions Christopher P. Wilson explores how turn-of-the-century literary representations of "white collar" Americans--the "middle" social strata H.L. Mencken dismissed as boobus Americanus--were actually part and parcel of a new social class coming to terms with its own power, authority, and contradictions. An innovative study that integrates literary analysis with social-history research, the book reexamines the life and work of Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis--as well as such nearly forgotten authors as O. Henry, Edna Ferber, Robert Grant, and Elmer Rice. Between 1885 and 1925 America underwent fundamental social changes. The family business faded with the rise of the ...
Adding Machine
Adding machine: a musical / 5m, 4f, 3 musicians / various scenes -- tells the story of Mr. Zero, an unlikely anti-hero for the working man. Rewarded with a pink slip after 25 years in the same office. Zero kills his boss, gets executed, and winds up in the Elysian Fields, where he is given a last chance at love with Daisy Devore, his long-suffering secretary.
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama: Volume 1, 1900-1940
Eugene O'Neill - Clifford Odets - Left-wing theatre - Black drama - Thornton Wilder - Lillian Hellman - Luigi Pirandello - Arthur Miller.
