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...oeuvre of both the writer (Vance) and artist (Burr), who never worked together again and neither of whom went on to produce much of anything even remotely as interesting. [Update: they are now working on a sequel, I am told.] Kings originates from Vance's days as a playwright of Depression-era, ash-can style dramas. Set in the early 1930s, the book follows the adventures of the 12-year-old Freddie Bloch, a working-class kid forced by circumstances to hit the railroad tracks of America, and enter the world of the destitute and homeless. Using convincing period detail...
...Alcott’s classic, “Little Women.”Nicholas D. Kristof ’81 and Joseph F. Kahn ’87, both former Crimson editors and current writers for The New York Times, won prizes for Commentary and International Reporting, respectively. Playwright Christopher Durang ’71 was recognized as a nominated finalist in the Drama category. Durang will receive the Harvard Arts Medal in May.Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., chair of the African and African American studies department, chaired this year’s Pulitzer Board...
Birnbaum has chosen a recent translation of the play by British playwright David Hare, and is unsure whether this particular translation, published in March 2005, has been been performed in the United States before. Hare’s language, according to Birnbaum, is much more contemporary...
...William Woodley Munich I read your reference to Shakespeare as "Will" with a shudder of distaste. Should we British be grateful you did not call him Bill? Moreover, I must disagree with Gary Taylor's Viewpoint in which he argued against Shakespeare's reputation as history's pre-eminent playwright. Renaissance dramatists Thomas Middleton and Robert Greene were good and even great, but definitely not as great as Shakespeare. My enjoyment of Shakespeare's language, wit and universality has grown steadily over the past 50 years. Clorinda Schaumburg Tübingen, Germany The Price of Victory? I broke down while...
...triumph of the single woman, the importance of long-lasting friendship and frank discussion of class conflict, Holofcener’s film borrows heavily from feminist playwright Wendy Wasserstein, especially the material of “The Heidi Chronicles,” “Uncommon Women,” and “Old Money.” The portrayal of the perplexing nature of female depression in “Friends with Money” seems to echo Michael Cunningham’s book and 2002 screenplay “The Hours.” At the same...