lee, robert edwin

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.

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 background on the lives of Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and their working relationship and influences, features ten articles that explore the theme of freedom of thought in their "Inherit the Wind," and examines issues of freedom of thought in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.