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Maxwell Anderson
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Biography:
Born 1888 in Atlantic, PA. He was a graduate of Stanford and worked as
editor for The New Republic. Died 1959.
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Anne of the Thousand Days
Paperback (December 1950)
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| Bad Seed
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| Bases of Artistic Creation
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| Dramatist in America - Letters of Maxwell Anderson,
1912-1958
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| The Essence of Tragedy and Other Footnotes and Papers.
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| Four Verse Plays
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| The Golden Six
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| Joan of Lorraine
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Masque of Queens - A
Play in Two Acts
Paperback (August 1987)
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Maxwell Anderson (written by Barbara
Lee Horn)
A comprehensive guide to the career of playwright Anderson.
Provides synopses and critical overviews of his 33 plays, cast information for major
productions, annotated primary and secondary bibliographies, and a separate bibliography
of reviews. Includes his seven radio plays 1937-42, and his 1954 television play
The
Christmas Carol. A brief biographical sketch is also included. (Booknews, Inc. ,
November 1, 1996)
One of the most important American playwrights of the 20th
century, Maxwell Anderson won a Pulitzer Prize for Both Your Houses (1933). His
crowning achievement was Winterset (1935), which popularized the use of blank
verse in contemporary drama and was the first winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle
Award (1935). This reference provides an introductory biographical essay, synopses of his
plays, critical overviews and stage histories of his works, and extensive annotated
bibliographies.
About the Author - Barbara Lee Horn is Associate Professor and Chair of
the Department of Speech, Communication Sciences and Theatre at St. John's University in
New York.
Hardcover (June 1996)
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Notes on a Dream
Hardcover (June 1971)
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| Off Broadway; Essays About the Theater
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| Winterset
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| You Who Have Dreams |
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