Emlyn Williams, playwright, actor, and director, has been a luminary in London's West End and on New York's Broadway since the late 1920s. His Night Must Fall (1935) is one of the most successful and ...
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Emlyn Williams is known primarily as an actor-playwright, perhaps more particularly in the United States as a reader-impersonator of Charles Dickens since 1951 and of Dylan Thomas since 1955. He has p...
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Critical Essay by David Burnham
Emlyn Williams wrote "The Corn Is Green" out of his boyhood experience. He wrote "Night Must Fall" out of his inventive imagination, touche...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Wood Krutch
"Morning Star" is by the Anglo-Welsh actor Emlyn Williams, who was first introduced to New York as the author of the excellent theatrical thriller c...
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Critical Essay by David Burnham
Emlyn Williams experienced directly the messy, senseless horror of the London blitz. And the success of "The Morning Star" in that city is tribute that h...
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Critical Essay by Ashley Dukes
In The Druid's Rest by Emlyn Williams, there is a lively dramatic idea, which perhaps could only be worked out in a Celtic setting and realized by a Welsh cast. ...
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Critical Essay by Naomi Bliven
[In "George: An Early Autobiography,"] Emlyn Williams, the actor and playwright … tells us how he made the long march from a poverty-stricken Welsh...
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Critical Essay by L. E. Sissman
"Emlyn: An Early Autobiography"] takes up where its predecessor, "George," left off…. The book is an account of its author's ...
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