Paul Green Summary

Paul Green was born 17 March 1894 on a farm in Harnett County, near Lillington, North Carolina. He learned early what he has believed all his life--that the people who live on the land develop a riche... Read more

Paul Green was raised on a farm near Lillington, North Carolina. Born 17 March 1894, Paul Eliot Green was the third child by the second marriage of his father, William Archibald Green, a landowner who... Read more

Critical Essay by Barrett H. Clark [Paul Green has] evolved a type of lyrical folk drama unlike anything that has so far been written in this country. Such plays as The End of the Row and In Abraham&#... Read more

Critical Essay by Gerald Rabkin The fact of "class" was one that few American dramatists escaped in the thirties; man was primarily a social, not a psychological, animal. Thus Paul Green... Read more

Critical Essay by Howard D. Pearce America's "folk-drama" of the 1920's and 1930's appears a last stand of nineteenth-century regionalism…. [It] was a brief m... Read more

Critical Essay by Julia Peterkin So much of Paul Green's work has concerned Negroes that his name is identified with his powerful ability to portray the experiences of black people. We who have... Read more

Critical Essay by Hamilton Basso In spite of the structural defects that result from Mr. Green's attempt to impose the technique of the theatre upon the technique of the novel, ["This Bo... Read more