{"product_id":"dramatist-in-america-laurence-g-avery-9780807849408","title":"Dramatist in America: Latters of Maxwell Anderson, 1912-1958","description":"From the 1920s through the 1950s Maxwell Anderson was one of the most important playwrights in America. His thirty-three produced plays make him a leader among these playwrights of America's most creative era in the theater, and a number of his plays have shown a lasting vitality and importance. \u003ci\u003eWhat Price Glory\u003c\/i\u003e (1924) dramatized the disillusionment and horror of World War I . With \u003ci\u003eElizabeth the Queen\u003c\/i\u003e (1929), \u003ci\u003eWinterset\u003c\/i\u003e (1935), and \u003ci\u003eHigh Tor\u003c\/i\u003e (1936), Anderson revived poetic drama in the modern theater. His versatility as a playwright was further reflected in the satire \u003ci\u003eBoth Your Houses\u003c\/i\u003e (1933), the historical parable \u003ci\u003eJoan of Lorraine\u003c\/i\u003e (1946), and the musical play \u003ci\u003eLost in the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e (1949).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition of Anderson's letters spans his adult life -- from 1912, shortly after he graduated from the University of North Dakota, to 1958, just before his death. Arranged chronologically, the letters reveal in full and intimate detail the development of his career, his methods of work, his relationships with theater people, his conceptions of himself as a playwright and of the nature of the theater, and his ideas about his plays, all of which focused on an inner moral struggle. Every aspect of his work and personality emerges in these letters, which serve as an autobiography in the rough. Each letter is fully annotated, permitting the reader to become a party to the correspondence. The editor has provided an informative introduction to the letters and also a substantial chronology of Anderson's life that incorporates the first complete bibliography of his plays, poems, essays, fiction, and screenplays. An appendix includes Anderson's previously unpublished statements about his life and his plays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDramatist in America\u003c\/i\u003e, the first edition of letters by a major American playwright, takes on added importance for its representative quality. It reveals the cultural and theatrical conditions under which a vital generation of playwrights created this country's finest period in the drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurence G. Avery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807849405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807849408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.01d","brand":"Laurence G. Avery","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520296206591,"sku":"9780807849408","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6dbd70a7-b1e0-4d62-b11c-7144325be27b.jpg?v=1762884733","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dramatist-in-america-laurence-g-avery-9780807849408","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}