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Lillian Florence Hellman (1906-1984), American playwright, wrote a series of powerful, realistic plays that made her one of America's major dramatists. She explored highly controversial themes, with many of her plays reflecting her outspoken political an...

Like many other playwrights of the 1930s, Lillian Hellman urged a social conscience on the theatre. By her own admission, she is a moralist who cannot avoid the final "summing up," with the sometimes too obvious explanatory speech at the end of act 3. Of...

At Lillian Hellman's funeral, John Hersey, referring to the title of Hellman's 1969 volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, declared that Hellman was at last a finished woman. Just as some of her plays enjoy periodic revivals, however, Hellman's reputati...

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman Adramatist, screenwriter, and political agitator, Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans in 1906 and became one of the nation's most prominent playwrights. Her best work engages the political and sociological...

The Little Foxes is a realist play by Lillian Hellman, first performed in 1939, with Tallulah Bankhead giving a legendary performance in the lead role of Regina. This hit production ran a year on Broadway, and then toured across the United States in...

(LANSBURGH THEATER; 450 SEATS; $63 TOP) WASHINGTON A Shakespeare Theater presentation of a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman. Directed by Doug Hughes. Sets, Hugh Landwehr; costumes, Jess Goldstein; lighting, Robert Wierzel. Opened, reviewed June 9, 2002. Running time: 2 HOUR,...

Motivation and methodology must have been on Mustapha Malik's mind when he penned this commentary: "Wael Abdul Latif, a Shia member of the Iraq constitutional committee, fears that he may have participated in the disintegration of his country. Under the draft constitution he...

“Excuse me,” I said. “That's cute, but what is it?” “It's an aboriginal fox,” the man answered, trying to pull it closer to him. The fox dug its paws in and balked at the tug, twisting its head back and forth. "He's not much...

Last summer, I saw a man with a leash dragging a strange, scuttling creature across the big lawn in Prospect Park. Its ears were big, its tail was bushy, its face feline, but its body was hound-like. "Excuse me," I said. "That's cute, but what...

In the following essay, Barlow contends, against widespread opinions to the contrary, that dramatic realism is a useful mode for social commentary and criticism, using Hellman's The Little Foxes as an example.

In the following essay, Lenker argues that the major theme of The Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest is the crippling effects of family violence.

In the following essay, Watson argues against the prevailing contemporary judgement of The Little Foxes as oversentimentalizing the postbellum American South, noting instead that the play is an astute critique of the New South's ultimate sterility of spirit.