Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men: A Play in Three Acts - Softcover

Reginald Rose; Sherman L. Sergel; Rose, Reginald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871293277 ISBN 13: 9780871293275

Publisher: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1989

Synopsis

The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival

Reginald Rose’s landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U.S. legal system. The story’s focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal biases. Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture of America, at its best and worst, to form.

About this title

About the Author:

Reginald Rose (1920–2002) won three Emmy awards for television writing as well as an Oscar for the feature-length adaptation of Twelve Angry Men.

David Mamet ’s Glengarry Glen Ross won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1984.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Dramatic Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0871293277
• ISBN 13: 9780871293275
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 63