Clifford Odets (1906–1963)
Auteur van Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays
Over de Auteur
With Lillian Hellman, Odets remains one of the foremost U.S. dramatists of the 1930s. Born in Philadelphia, he became an actor about 1923 and joined the Group Theatre upon its founding in 1930. From then until its collapse in 1940, the Group Theatre produced seven plays by Odets, all of which toon meer reflect the Depression era in which they were written. His first play, Waiting for Lefty (1935), an agitprop play about strikers, was an enormous success. Most of his other plays of the 1930s, most notably Awake and Sing (1935) and Paradise Lost (1935), concern the economic and psychological plight of poor New York City Jewish families and heighten middle-class Jewish speech into a kind of poetry. After the collapse of the Group Theatre, Odets produced only four more plays. Odets was criticized, however, for betraying his leftist sympathies when he named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy era. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Clifford Odets
The Time Is Ripe: The 1940 Journal of Clifford Odets : With an Introduction by William Gibson (1988) 15 exemplaren
Three Plays By Clifford Odets: Awake And Sing, Waiting For Lefty, Till The Day I Die (1935) 15 exemplaren
Romare Bearden : fractured tales, intimate collages : September 8 - October 28, 2006 (2006) 7 exemplaren
Clifford Odets: Paradise Lost, paintings on paper from the 1940s and 1950s [May 9 - August 2, 2002] (2002) 4 exemplaren
Till the Day I Die 4 exemplaren
Six Plays of Clifford Odetts [waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing!, Till the Day I Die, Paradise Lost, Golden Boy, &… 3 exemplaren
Night Music 2 exemplaren
Desperta e Canta 2 exemplaren
Famous Plays of 1938-1939 (Famous Plays of 1938-1939) — Auteur — 2 exemplaren
Teatru American Contemporan vol. 2 1 exemplaar
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- 1906-07-18
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- 1963-08-18
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- Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, USA
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