anderson, maxwell

Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.

Traces the career of playwright Maxwell Anderson from his farm boyhood as the son of a frequently-moving clergyman through his studies at Harvard and Stanford to his Broadway successes beginning with Saturday's Children in 1927.