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 Go...
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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...
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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 p...
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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 b...
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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 pi...
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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 ...
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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 hi...
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Teaching Golden Boy
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Golden Boy Lesson Plans contain 125 pages of teaching material, including:
Question 1 of 10:What colour will the Doctor's celery turn if he's in the presence of gases to which he is allergic?a) Crimson (0)b) Purple (1)c) Blue (0)d) Black (0)Question 2 of 10:Under whose in...
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Question 1 of 10:His devoted fans know him as
Peter
Davison
, but what is his real surname?
Moffett
Carlyle
Smithy
Langley
Question 2 of 10:As if in anticipation of his roles as a vet...
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Barcelona (dpa) - Even though it was Ferrari racer Felipe Massa
who took the chequered flag in Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix, it was
British rookie driver Lewis Hamilton who t...
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Now De La Hoya will have to make a very important decision as to who he will fight on September 16 – a fight he says will possibly be his last.Arguably the world's best pound-for-pound fighte...
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After three months of verbal sparring, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya are just about ready to shut up and fight.Boxing's best pound-for-pound fighter and its most popular champion said l...
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LUXOR, Egypt, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Egypt put the mummy of the
boy pharaoh Tutankhamun on display in his tomb in the Valley of
the Kings on Sunday, giving visitors their first chance to see
the face o...
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An autopsy of an Italian man who died in a Mexican jail after being hauled away for drunkenness and public disorder showed he was not drunk but suffered a heart attack, his uncle said Thursday.Simo...
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Buenos Aires (dpa) - Former Argentine football star Diego
Maradona is being kept in hospital for observation after falling ill,
his doctor said on Thursday.
M...
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NEW YORK, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Shane Mosley says he cannot wait
to go to 'war' with champion Miguel Cotto in Saturday's World
Boxing Association welterweight title showdown. Cotto, an aggressive body...
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NEW YORK, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Bernard Hopkins hopes British
world super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe is serious about
wanting to fight him and said on Wednesday he was eager for a
showdown. Ca...
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Golden Boy: A Fifth Doctor Quiz
