Robert Anderson (author) Summary

To the issue of the Quarterly Review published in July 1814, Robert Southey contributed a twenty-four-page review of the twenty-one volumes of Alexander Chalmers's edition of The Works of the English ... Read more

Critical Essay by Harold Clurman ["Tea and Sympathy"] is a totally successful play because it deals with a theme which has a strong appeal to our audiences…. (p. 317) I speak of t... Read more

Critical Essay by Henry Hewes [What] emerges from [I Never Sang for My Father] is a gentle reminder of how well-to-do American families unintentionally pollute the lives of their members. But what als... Read more

Critical Essay by Allan Lewis Another addition to the two-character bedroom boom is Robert Anderson's Silent Night, Lonely Night…. There are minor characters in the play, but the action ... Read more

Critical Essay by Samuel J. Bernstein In Double Solitaire, a play that many critics believe to be his best, or at least his best since Tea and Sympathy, Robert Anderson makes his most trenchant and pe... Read more

Critical Essay by Wolcott Gibbs Robert Anderson, whose "Tea and Sympathy" established him as one of our foremost authorities on the sensitive young man in a hostile world, has practicall... Read more

Critical Essay by Eric Bentley All Summer Long is another mood play, belonging to the succession that began with Summer and Smoke and Member of the Wedding. The aim is Chekhov's trigger effect:... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Watts, Jr. "Silent Night, Lonely Night" is touching, gentle, sensitive and very, very wistful. Robert Anderson's new play … contemplates the brief... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Watts, Jr. After expressing mild discontent over his giving them the collective title of "You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running," I h... Read more