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The Normal Heart Information
216 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Normal Heart is a play written by Larry Kramer, dealing with the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City from 1981-1984, through the eyes of Ned Weeks, the gay Jewish founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. It was one of the first plays to...


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 The Village Voice
The Normal Heart
09/24/2003: 680 words, approx. 2 pages THE NORMAL HEART Out of the Closet, Into the Army Garrison, a Tender Gay Romance Takes Israel by Storm Take a tragic gay romance, set it in the Israeli army, and you've got a recipe for outrage-or so it would seem. But Yossi...
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 The Village Voice
Assassins/the Normal Heart
04/28/2004: 901 words, approx. 3 pages ASSASSINS Studio 54 254 West 54th Street 212.719.1300 THE NORMAL HEART PublicTheater 425 Lafayette Street 212.239.6200 SECOND SHOTS Sondheim and Weidman hail the chief-killers; Larry Kramer uses rant to fight the plague Thirteen years...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Barbara Fass Leavy
4,910 words, approx. 16 pages
 In the following excerpt, Leavy explores thematic parallels between The Normal Heart and Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People.
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Joel Shatzky
3,808 words, approx. 13 pages
 In the following essay, Shatzky contrasts the polemical approach to the AIDS crisis in The Normal Heart to the highly personal focus of As Is, an AIDS play by William Hoffman.
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Critical Essay by Gregory D. Gross
3,546 words, approx. 12 pages
 In the essay below, Gross compares The Normal Heart to two other AIDS plays: William Hoffman's As Is and Harvey Fierstein's Safe Sex. All three works are "history plays, " Gross asserts, that "remind audiences that history is political, art is political and even sex is political. "


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