Traces the life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, examines his major works, and suggests the influence of his life on his plays:1950: Come Back, Little Sheba 1953: Picnic 1955: Bus Stop 1957: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 1959: A Loss of Roses 1962: Summer Brave (a reworking of Picnic)1963: Natural Affection 1966: Where's Daddy? 1973: The Last Pad Off the Main Road.

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Title

A Life of William Inge: The Strains of Triumph

Publisher

Univ Pr Of Kansas, Lawrence, Ks

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0700603840

ISBN 13

9780700603848

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Traces the life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, examines his major works, and suggests the influence of his life on his plays

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The troubled life of William Inge (1913-73), America's most celebrated playwright of the 1950s, is sympathetically examined in this biography by a fellow Kansan who teaches at the University of Alabama. In his four famous plays-- Come Back Little Sheba , Picnic (for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize), Bus Stop and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (all of which were successfully filmed)--Inge explored themes of loneliness, frustration, loss, despair and the need for love within the family, themes rooted in his own unhappiness. Despite his many friendships, Inge was an angry, lonely man who struggled with homosexuality and alcoholism until his death by suicide. After an attack by Robert Brustein in Harper's in 1958, audiences, too, rejected his plays. As his career declined, he made desperate, unsuccessful attempts to restore his equilibrium--a flirtation with the occult and a half-hearted conversion to Catholicism. In the end, "Inge showed that rural Midwesterners could be as vulnerable to life's upsets as the most committed of city dwellers." Photos.
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