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Writing wrongs : the work of Wallace Shawn / W.D. King ; foreword by John Lahr.
- Title
- Writing wrongs : the work of Wallace Shawn / W.D. King ; foreword by John Lahr.
- Author
- King, W. D. (W. Davies)
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3569.H387 Z74 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Shawn, Wallace
- Description
- xvi, 242 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn is a close and personal look into the life and literary work of the man whom Joseph Papp called "a dangerous writer." As the son of the late William Shawn, renowned editor of the New Yorker, Wallace Shawn was born into privilege and trained to thoroughly liberal values, but his plays relentlessly question the liberal faith in individualism and common decency. W.D. King's incisive critiques of the plays and inquiry into the life and times of their author develop a portrait of Shawn as a major figure in contemporary theater.
- Series Statement
- American subjects
- Uniform Title
- American subjects.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-236) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Series Foreword / Robert Dawidoff -- Foreword / John Lahr -- Introduction: "On the Way to Balducci's" -- Ch. 1. Early Writings: Four Meals in May and The Old Man -- Ch. 2. The "Plays": The Hotel Play, The Family Play, and The Hospital Play -- Ch. 3. "Inside Your Thing, But I'll Do It Quickly": Our Late Night, In the Dark, and A Thought in Three Parts -- Ch. 4. "A Powerful Smell of Urine": Marie and Bruce, The Mandrake, and the Music Teacher -- Ch. 5. "In the Way in Relation to Others": My Dinner with Andre -- Ch. 6. Beyond "A Certain Chain of Reasoning": Aunt Dan and Lemon -- Ch. 7. "A Piece -- Of a Human Brain": The Fever -- Epilogue I: "A Genuine Family Drama": Vanya on 42nd Street -- Epilogue II: "I can't ... just ... I can't ... totally": The Designated Mourner -- App. The Man behind the Voice: Interview of Wallace Shawn / Mark Strand.
- ISBN
- 1566395178 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96027503^
- OCLC
- 35192141
- SCSB-12141614
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library