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The Children’s Hour

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The Children’s Hour Information
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The Children's Hour is a 1934 stage play written by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and to avoid being sent...


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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
They Can Play 23 Songs In An Hour
07/19/1996: 819 words, approx. 3 pages
STEVEN P. MARSH, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-19-1996 THEY CAN PLAY 23 SONGS IN AN HOUR By STEVEN P. MARSH, Staff Writer Date: 07-19-1996, Friday Section: LIFESTYLE / PREVIEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star...
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The Boston Globe
`blues After Hours' Plays On
04/11/2002: 602 words, approx. 2 pages
What will the future hold for "Blues After Hours"? The weekend blues show that Mai Cramer founded 24 years ago and hosted until her death on Feb. 25 from breast cancer had become a WGBH-FM (89.7) institution. With its consistent support for local artists...
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The New York Observer
Bitchy, Unconventional Hellman Protected by Loving Biographer
12/11/2005: 1,613 words, approx. 5 pages
On top of her many overlapping sex and love affairs, Lillian Hellman also once got married—and when she did, her biographer Deborah Martinson writes, “As was the custom, she left work to become a full-time housewife.” A stunning line, especially in light of Hellman’s extraordinary...
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The New York Observer
Bitchy, Unconventional Hellman Protected by Loving Biographer
12/11/2005: 1,613 words, approx. 5 pages
On top of her many overlapping sex and love affairs, Lillian Hellman also once got married—and when she did, her biographer Deborah Martinson writes, “As was the custom, she left work to become a full-time housewife.” A stunning line, especially in light of Hellman’s...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mary Titus
7,752 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Titus discusses the ways The Children's Hour reflected changing thoughts about women's sexuality in the early to mid-twentieth century.
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Critical Essay by Anne Fleche
7,419 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Fleche explores the representation of lesbianism in language in The Children's Hour.
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Critical Essay by Doris V. Falk
2,273 words, approx. 8 pages
[Lillian Hellman's eight] original plays fall into two principal groups, based on Hellman's view of human action and motivation—a highly moral view, interpreting both action and the failure to act in terms of good and evil. The first two plays became signposts, marking the directions to be taken by the later plays. The Children's Hour concerned active evil…. The drama pointed the way toward the three plays whose chief characters are despoilers—those who exploit or d...
 


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