His plays have sparked the same wide range of critical praise and condemnation as have his novels, but have also, again like his novels, enjoyed considerable popular approval, with most of his stage plays proving successful. Greene has also written nine screenplays since 1939, the last six without collaborators.
The Living Room, Greene's first play to be produced, enjoyed a two-month run in London in 1953. By this time he had already had published fourteen book-length fictions, two volumes of short stories, two travel books, two volumes of essays, and had written five film scripts. He had also suffered through the frustration, semipoverty, and near despair of writing two unsuccessful novels following the modest success of The Man Within . Through trial and error, he had found that his personal mode of novel involved a contemporary setting, melodrama, and a religious dimension.
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