Word: melodramatist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play's forbidding tone or gloomy subject matter that makes it, after an impressive first half, so palpably decline. It is, rather, its compulsion to prolong the agony without knowing how to dramatize it. The fine craftsman and melodramatist who wrote Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory, the novelist who much more deftly approached the theme of The Living Room in The Heart of the Matter, has, in his first play, allowed his anxious emotions to overwhelm him. The Living Room too much batters its theme before the suicide, and again for a whole scene after...