The Miracle Worker Summary
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The Miracle Worker Summary

Initially written for television, The Miracle Worker by William Gibson first aired in 1957. After it was warmly received by television audiences, it was rewritten for the stage and opened on Broadway in 1959 at the Playhouse Theatre. Although some of the reviews were mixed, the audience response was very favorable and during its run the first production of The Miracle Worker rarely failed to fill the 1,000 seat theatre.

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Encyclopedia Articles (2)

Keys

660 words, approx. 3 pages

Keys KEYS. Doors held shut with bars, and bars and bolts, were common long before locks and keys became prevalent. Some of the oldest myths reflect this. In Babylonian mythology, for example, Marduk m... Read more

The Miracle Worker

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The Miracle Worker by William Gibson William Gibson was born in the Bronx, a borough in New York City, in 1914. As an adult, he became fascinated with Anne Sullivan's famous triumph as the teacher ... Read more

William Gibson Biographies (3)

William (Ford) Gibson

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No other Canadian speculative fiction writer, and possibly no other Canadian writer of fiction, has had as great an impact on late-twentieth-century culture as has William Gibson. Beginning with a ser... Read more

William Gibson

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Creator of the concept "Cyberspace," science-fiction author William Gibson developed a new fictional landscape for his edgy work--a hallucinatory three-dimensional region built from computer data gath... Read more

William Gibson

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When science fiction author William Gibson wrote his first two novels, Neuromancer and Count Zero, on a manual typewriter, he knew almost nothing about computers. "When people started talking about th... Read more

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Critical Essay by Walter Kerr

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Critical Essay by Brooks Atkinson

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Critical Essay by Robert Brustein

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Critical Essay by Richard Hayes

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"There comes a time in a person's life when to get where he/she has to go, if there are no doors, he/she walks through a wall." We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more of less in ... Read more

Keys

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The Miracle Worker: Keys "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it" once said by the extraordinary Helen Keller. She suffered from blindness, deafness, and m... Read more

The Miracle Worker

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In the play The Miracle Worker, William Gibson shows how if you have enough determination, you can achieve what others perceive to be the impossible. The play portrays the story of Annie Sullivan,... Read more

The Miracle Worker

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Helen Keller was a woman who overcame great physical disabilities; although she was born being both blind and deaf, she eventually went on to learn how to talk. The play The Miracle Worker, by Willia... Read more

Overcoming and Coping with Disabilities - the Miracle Worker

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The disability of being completely deaf and blind may seem impossible to ever overcome and live normally with. The play The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson, has made it clear that thi... Read more

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