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...John Steinbeck read the Arthurian legend in the Caxton edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Grappling with the language, he met the tale on its own terms, with few concessions to propriety or adult ideas of logic. His resulting love for the legend prompted him to return to it again and again, digging up the sources and scholars of Malory. Finally, in 1956, he approached Malory with greater daring...
East of Eden (Kazan, Dean, Steinbeck), Friday and Saturday...
...many farmers, John Steinbeck's description of the Dust Bowl is as tragically apt today as it was in the 1930s. The drought and winds that four decades ago turned large parts of the U.S. into an agricultural disaster area have returned to some areas of the Great Plains, parching crops and whipping topsoil into sun-darkening clouds. In the 1930s the victims of the drought-the impoverished Okies memorialized in Steinbeck's novel-were lured westward by California's verdant fruit groves. But this time California is suffering from its most severe drought since...
That is the core of Bilby's Doll, Carlisle Floyd's new opera, which was given its world premiere last week by the Houston Grand Opera. Floyd, 49, has written successful operas from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, but is best known for Susannah, a retelling of the biblical story of Susanna and the elders from the Apocrypha. Since its first performance by the New York City Opera in 1956, Susannah has become the most frequently performed full-length American opera written since World...
...valid summation of his work. Throughout his 40 odd years on the American literary scene, O'Hara lobbied openly for the critical acclaim he felt was due him, and watched in frustration as he was passed over, time and time again, for Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Wolfe and Steinbeck...