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Inge, William - ĭnj, 1913–73, American playwright, b. Independence, Kans., grad. Univ. of Kansas, 1935. He was a teacher and newspaper critic before he won recognition as a dramatist. Inge's plays portray sympathetically the aspirations and frustrations of small-town life in the Midwest. Come Back, Little Sheba (1950) established his reputation. It was followed by Picnic (1953;

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William Inge: A Research and Production Sourcebook » Read Now
by Richard M. Leeson. 228 pgs.

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William Inge achieved admirable success as a dramatist on Broadway and through popular film renditions of his plays. This book demonstrates how his works have helped shape the modern stage. The volume contains an overview of Inge's career, along with plot synopses, production histories, and critical...
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William Inge achieved admirable success as a dramatist on Broadway and through popular film renditions of his plays. This book demonstrates how his works have helped shape the modern stage. The volume contains an overview of Inge's career, along with plot synopses, production histories, and critical commentary for his major plays. It also provides annotated bibliographic entries for works by and about Inge.
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Playwright Versus Director: Authorial Intentions and Performance Interpretations (Chap. 11 "A Tyrant Director? William Inge and Joshua Logan") » Read Now
by Jeane Luere, Sidney Berger. 180 pgs.

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Giving equal space to the sanctity of script and the artistic freedom of directors, this book addresses the difficulties encountered by playwrights and directors as they bring a script to the stage. Inspired directors can help a writer of genius turn his play into exciting theatre, but playwrights...
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Giving equal space to the sanctity of script and the artistic freedom of directors, this book addresses the difficulties encountered by playwrights and directors as they bring a script to the stage. Inspired directors can help a writer of genius turn his play into exciting theatre, but playwrights find that giving directors leeway to interpret and modify "text" can result in directors' overriding authorial intentions. This book presents the best that has been written by literary theorists on the current definitions of "text" and attempts to depart from quick rule-of-thumb assessments of the problem.
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A. R. Gurney: A Casebook ("Absent Fathers, Transient Sons: Miller, Inge, and Gurney" begins on p. 122 and "Picnics and Parties: Inge, Gurney, and the Argument of Comedy" begins on p. 160) » Read Now
by Arvid F. Sponberg. 232 pgs.

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This is the first full-length study devoted to the art of A.R. Gurney, a major contemporary American playwright who has written over thirty plays, including Love Letters. This volume brings together original interviews with Gurney and four actors and a director who have worked closely with him, as...
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This is the first full-length study devoted to the art of A.R. Gurney, a major contemporary American playwright who has written over thirty plays, including Love Letters. This volume brings together original interviews with Gurney and four actors and a director who have worked closely with him, as well as essays by leading theater scholars on the range of Gurney's work.
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Theatre Chronicles, 1937-1962 ("The American Realist Playwrights" begins on p. 209) » Read Now
by Mary McCarthy. 248 pgs.

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...Cocktail Party or Arthur Miller or William Inge. It was not a check list but...have seen at least one play by Williams, Inge, and Miller, and at least one...Back , Little...
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A Time of Harvest, American Literature, 1910-1960 (Chap. 13 "Theatre without Walls") » Read Now
by Robert E. Spiller. 176 pgs.

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...and Winston, Inc.; and lines from "The Ballad of William Sycamore" from Selected Works of Stephen Vincent...The Yachts" from The Collected Earlier Poems of William Carlos...
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The Theatre in the Fifties ("William Inge" begins on p. 71) » Read Now
by George Jean Nathan. 312 pgs.

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