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1 day ago · When I told Lillian Hellman that she was the one friend of whom Dottie consistently spoke with respect, affection and admiration, Miss Hellman said, “People have told me that through the years and I always found it hard to believe, but so many have said it I’ve finally come to accept it.” She resisted friendship with all her might.
5 days ago · Arthur Miller is this canonical, pantheon-level American playwright. How do we know he is such a pantheon playwright? Well, he has been on the cover of a lot of magazines— American Theatre Magazine, The Atlantic, even Humanities, the official magazine for the National Endowment of the Humanities.
2 days ago · She is “Lillian Hellman,” all caps, and the legend is meant to stand in for the benign neglect of screenwriters who assumed they were working on a cartoon. She could be any number of self-important writers of the age, though Fonda bites her lip enough times to remind us that yes, writing plays is tough work, especially when you don’t have to worry about your next meal.
4 days ago · The literature of. World War II. (1939–45) Professor of English, University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Editor of Beowulf: Basic Readings and coeditor of The General Correspondence of James Boswell. Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex, Brighton, England. Editor of The History of Tom Jones.
4 days ago · [citation needed] He returned to Broadway acting in the Lillian Hellman play Toys in the Attic (1960) acting opposite Maureen Stapleton and Irene Worth. For the role he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
1 day ago · McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s. [1]
5 days ago · Stephen Sondheim was born in New York on 22 March 1930, and is widely acknowledged as the most innovative, most influential and most important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history. For more than 50 years, Stephen Sondheim set an unsurpassed standard of brilliance and artistic integrity in the musical theatre.
