Beth Henley: A Casebook

Book Overview

Beth Henley was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play for her first full-length play, Crimes of the Heart, yet there has been no book-length consideration of her body of work until now. This volume includes original essays that contextualize and analyze her works from a variety of perspectives, focusing on her vexed status as a southern writer, her use of the comic grotesque, and her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138870544
• ISBN13: 9781138870543
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"