In the following review, Isherwood finds Fifth of July timeless.
Written first, Fifth of July is chronologically the last in Wilson's trilogy of major plays about Missouri's Talley famil...
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Critical Essay by Richard Eder
You cannot build a serviceable bridge out of flowers unless you are an ant; and Lanford Wilson's vocabulary of freaks, sensitive and even charming as it may be, i...
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Critical Essay by Edith Oliver
The action [of "The 5th of July"] just seems to drift along. There are monologues—indeed, the play at times could be considered an amalgam of these ...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
Lanford Wilson's The 5th of July is a pretty good Chekhovian play written too late….
Wilson's Chekhov does not out-Chekhov the originals; it is merely...
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Critical Essay by Erika Munk
From the beginning it's obvious that The 5th of July is a deliberate variation on the theme of Cherry Orchard. It's equally clear by the end that melancholy ...
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