Horton Foote is a prolific and successful writer of drama for the theater, the movies, and television. Six of his plays have received New York productions; at least six of his screenplays have been fi...
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Horton Foote's long, distinguished career in American playwriting started in the late 1930s and has continued without interruption to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although he has become ...
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[An English-born critic, Barnes is the author and editor of several books about the performing arts. In the following favorable review, he discusses the theme of self-delusion in The Young Man from At...
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[For many years the chief film critic of The New York Times, Canby is also a novelist, playwright, and theater critic. In the following, he offers a favorable review of The Young Man from Atlanta, not...
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[Feingold is an American critic and educator. In the excerpt below, he questions the validity of Foote's portrait of contemporary American society in The Young Man from Atlanta.]
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[Christiansen is an American journalist, editor, and critic who frequently writes about Chicago's artistic community. In the following review, he praises Foote's use of characterization ...
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[An American essayist and critic, Simon has served as a drama critic for Esquire and the New Leader. In the excerpt below, he offers a highly negative account of The Young Man from Atlanta.]
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Teaching The Young Man from Atlanta
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There's nothing like a little greed to exacerbate family relations.Money can pull people apart, and the folks at the center of Horton Foote's gently humorous domestic comedy, "Dividing the Estate,"...
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Horton Foote
The Young Man from Atlanta
Greed threatens a Texas family's ties
