Courtship ; Valentine's Day ; 1918: Three plays from "The orphans' home cycle"

three plays from "The orphans' home cycle"

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Product description This is the central volume in Horton Footeâs remarkable nine-play Orphansâ Home Cycle, in which the author chronicles the evolution of a familyâthe strengths that bind its members together and the strains that force them apartâand the cataclysmic changes in Southern society over twenty-six turbulent years. From Library Journal Foote is a major American playwright. His disappearance from the Hollywood establishment after his 1963 Oscar for the screenplay of To Kill a Mockingbird, marks the start of work on his cycle of nine plays called The Orphan's Home. These plays are set in small town Texas between the turn of the century and 1928. They are loosely based on Foote's family and follow the marriage of Horace Robedaux and Elizabeth Vaughan through the turmoil of World War I, social and economic struggle, and alcoholism, insanity, and epidemic. The three plays anthologized here are the sixth, seventh, and eighth in the cycle. Their stage language is lyrical realism, which builds quietly to a depth of feeling and insight that rivals O'Neill at his best. Recommended.Thomas E. Luddy, English Dept., Salem State Coll., Mass.Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.