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DIED. Paul Green, 87, dramatist and screenwriter whose Broadway successes include the 1926 Pulitzer-prizewinning In Abraham's Bosom and the 1936 antiwar play Johnny Johnson, and who in 1937 wrote the historical spectacle The Lost Colony, the first of his 15 outdoor "symphonic dramas" that are staged across the country, mostly for summer tourists; in Chapel Hill...
Goodwin has always been a writer, although never before a dramatist. He has been a speechwriter. He has been a writer of political analysis, of government policy, of social theory. He has, at times, been a writer of history, and of biography; he has even tried his hand at literary criticism. But he has always been a writer...
Sometimes a dramatist offers one special clue as to his intent, and British Playwright Davies seems to do that when he has Rose quote a line from the German socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg: "It's in the tiny domestic struggles of individual people as they grope towards self-realization that we can most truly discern the great movements of society." The play's title may be an oblique salute to Rosa...
That, in essence, is what Undiscovered Country is all about. The play is being given an ably acted, stylishly assured U.S. premiere by Connecticut's Hartford Stage Company. Britain's Tom Stoppard has provided his own idiomatic touches in one thoroughly civilized dramatist's salute to another...
Earthly Powers attempts to do both on a large scale. The book is a high entertainment. It is, at 600 pages, also long enough to display Burgess at his best and second best: the penetrating dramatist of culture clash and the clever animater of received wisdom. His new novel stretches from the Edwardian Age through the 1970s. At the halfway mark, the reader has already had brushes with Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Havelock Ellis, Mussolini and Heinrich Himmler...