All the King's Men (Warren) - Acting Edition - Softcover

Robert Penn Warren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082220018X ISBN 13: 9780822200185

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1961

Synopsis

Note: This is a play Version (Acting Edition).

His version of the widely known work, which, as a novel, was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, had a highly successful Off-Broadway run during the 1959 season. s told by Atkinson: "Eliminate the story of Huey Long, which Mr. Warren says is not what he is trying to interpret. He is anatomizing the career with nothing but purity in his heart. Discovering that he is being used by a cynical machine, [Willie] adopts their methods, and presently, he is in control of the state. By resorting to corrupt methods he accomplishes things for the people that were only abstract ideals when he was campaigning honestly. As a portrait of politics, this is effective and provocative."

About this title

About the Author

Robert Penn Warren, (1905-1989), America's first Poet Laureate, won three Pulitzer Prizes and virtually every other major award given to American writers.

Noel Polk is a professor of American Literature at the University of Southern Mississippi and lives in Hattiesburg.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
• Publication date: 1961
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082220018X
• ISBN 13: 9780822200185
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72