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Golden Boy by Clifford Odets.
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A playwright, film scenarist, and director, Clifford Odets (1906-1963) was America's outstanding dramatist in the 1930s. His colloquial dialogue, vital ideological protests on behalf of human dignity,...
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Clifford Odets is known primarily as a proletarian playwright of the 1930s, although this label is misleading. Odets's first few plays, which catapulted him virtually overnight to fame and affluence,...
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Born in Philadelphia to Louis J. and Pearl Geisinger Odets, Clifford Odets grew up in a Jewish section of the Bronx. Though Odets at times suggested that he was raised under the shadows of poverty, hi...
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In the following review, Krutch states: "There are moments when Golden Boy seems near to greatness; there are others when it trembles on the edge of merely strident melodrama. "
In Golde...
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In this assessment of Golden Boy, Young praises Odets' handling of dialogue, adding: "In this respect Mr. Odets is the most promising writer our theatre can show. "
It seems to me...
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Atkinson compares the construction of the themes and dialogue in Golden Boy to a symphony.
After doing a long stretch in Hollywood, Clifford Odets has returned to the theatre with one of his best play...
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In the essay below, Clurman explores the allegorical nature of Golden Boy.
Golden Boy has already been praised as a good show, commonsense entertainment, and effective melodrama. It has also been blam...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Wood Krutch
[In "Golden Boy"] Clifford Odets has written what is certainly his best play since "Awake and Sing." To say this is to say that the pie...
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Critical Essay by Stark Young
It seems to me the first thing about Mr. Odets' new play ["Golden Boy"] that we should mention is a certain quality in the dialogue. He has a sense o...
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Critical Essay by Edith J. R. Isaacs
[Even] in Golden Boy, which is far and away better theatre fare than any other Odets play, he is still the most personal of all playwrights, still speaking for him...
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Teaching Golden Boy
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