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The Desperate Hours Study Guide

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by Joseph Hayes
About 51 pages (15,160 words)
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Adler, Thomas P., American Drama, 1940—1960: A Critical History, Twayne Publishers, 1994.

Adler provides a background of the theatrical scene at the time when The Desperate Hours appeared.

Heilman, Robert Bechtold, Tragedy and Melodrama: Versions of Experience, University of Washington Press, 1968.

A famous drama critic examines the art and skill involved in writing a play in a generic form, studying the artistic precedents that go back to antiquity.

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