Four Verse Plays

by Maxwell Anderson

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156333295
• Release Date: January 1959
• Publisher: Harcourt
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An American Shakespeare

How can I forgive English teachers who pushed Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams on me, when Maxwell Anderson was around and wrote in verse? His two histories here are in more modern English, but are as Shakespeare might have written them were he after his own time. What I like most about this fellow is that he isn't so impressed with himself that he can't laugh with us at him and his times. He has no respect for Judges in either High Tor or Winterset. High Tor is a play for our times, for all times about the rape of the environment and the men who are as thieves, and foster it. Anderson's Indian says:" Nothing is made by men but makes, in the end, good ruins." He leaves me wanting to read more.