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’night, Mother by Marsha Norman

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Author Biography

Name: Marsha Norman
Variant Name: Marsha Williams Norman, Marsha Williams
Birth Date: September 21, 1947
Nationality: American
Gender: Female

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Biography of Marsha Norman
9570 words, approx. 31.9 pages
Marsha Norman's first published essay, "Why Do Good Men Suffer"" (1964), written while she was in high school, was awarded first place in a local writing contest and subsequently published in the Kentucky English Bulletin. This early essay about Job sugg...


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’night, Mother Information
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'night, Mother is a 1983 play by Marsha Norman about a daughter, Jessie, and her mother, Thelma (referred to as "Mama" in the play). The play opens with Jessie calmly telling Mama that by morning she'll be dead, as she plans to commit suicide that very...


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The Daily Mail (London, England)
Sleepless night for a mother-to-be.
02/01/2003: 439 words, approx. 2 pages
A WOMAN who is six months pregnant told of her panic as she realised she would have to spend the night in her car on the M11. 'My main concern was trying to keep calm,' said TV producer Charlotte Lamont. 'I...
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Artists, entertainers who died in 2007
12/28/2007: 3,654 words, approx. 12 pages
World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.Vonnegut turned his ordeal as a POW during the 1945 allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany, into his 1969...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jill Dolan
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In the essay below, Dolan explores the reasons for the acceptance of 'night, Mother into the male-defined canon of great literature.
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Critical Essay by Linda Ginter Brown
9,161 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Brown explores how hunger is treated as a metaphor for the psychological needs of the characters in Lillian Hellman's Days to Come and Norman's 'night, Mother.
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Critical Essay by Janet Brown and Catherine Barnes Stevenson
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In the following essay, Brown and Stevenson argue that Getting Out and 'night, Mother foreground many “specifically feminist concerns” through the formal theatrical means of setting, plot, and character.
 


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