Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959), an American playwright noted for his verse dramas, tried to show men living by their beliefs even in a world where evil tends to dominate.Maxwell Anderson was born in Atl...
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Maxwell Anderson was among the generation of playwrights who changed the world's perception of American drama. Before World War I the usual impression in this country and abroad was that important and...
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A teacher, journalist, and poet, Maxwell Anderson brought to the theater of the twentieth century an awareness of contemporary events as well as a poet's depth of feeling and sense of language. Though...
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In the following essay, Tees notes that although Anderson's characters rarely find justice within the American legal system, they do achieve poetic justice outside of it.
Maxwell Anderson wa...
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In the following essay, Horn discusses Anderson's life and works, commenting on what contributions he made to the American theatre from 1920 through 1950.
Maxwell Anderson was to the America...
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In the following essay, Hadari explains why he considers Anderson's verse theater to be, ultimately, a failure.
When Maxwell Anderson lived in upstate New York his nearest neighbor was John ...
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In the following essay, Buchanan accounts for Anderson's success with the form of verse tragedy on the American stage.
In the American theater in the first half of the twentieth century one ...
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In the following essay, Jackson discusses Anderson's role in the creation of an indigenous language for American drama.
Poetry is … a way of using language … that impels the us...
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In the following essay, Jones examines Anderson's allusions to Shakespeare in light of his theory of drama as myth.
“I speak from a high place, far off, long ago, looking down.”...
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In the following essay, Weales examines, through a review of Dramatist in America: Letters of Maxwell Anderson, 1912-1958, the theme of compromise both in Anderson's plays and in his life as he...
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In the following essay, Tees finds evidence in Anderson's canon of his change from an anti-war stance to a less pacifist position later in his life.
Maxwell Anderson, during his thirty-five ...
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In the following essay, Orlin traces Anderson's source material for Night over Taos and defends the play against earlier criticism.
The Group Theatre premiered Maxwell Anderson's Nigh...
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In the following essay, Jones examines Anderson and Harold Hickerson's play The Gods of Lightning for its portrayal of the social and political climate of the era of the Sacco and Vanzetti tria...
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I was struck by Robert Gottlieb’s question in his dance column last week, “How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art?” Even the best critics...
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New Yorkers who missed The Quilts of Gee's Bend, an exhibition seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the winter of 2002-3, should have their collective knuckles soundly rapped. There ca...
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Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson
Critical Essay by Arthur T. Tees
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