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S. T. . Ed(S): Joshi - The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken. Plays and Criticism.  - 9780810883697 - V9780810883697
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The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken. Plays and Criticism.

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Description for The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken. Plays and Criticism. Hardback. Editor(s): Joshi, S. T. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
Throughout his career as a literary critic, H. L. Mencken was intent on elevating the bold, the daring, and the innovative over the hackneyed, the trite, and the superficial, and his drama criticism exhibits this tendency to the fullest. Though known primarily as a newspaperman and commentator, Mencken also wrote several one-act plays, as well as a full-length work. In The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi has assembled for the first time Mencken’s dramatic works, comprising six one-act plays and the lengthy three-act play Heliogabalus. These plays, which have never been reprinted ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810883697
SKU
V9780810883697
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About S. T. . Ed(S): Joshi
S. T. Joshi edits the scholarly journals Lovecraft Studies and Studies in Weird Fiction and is the author of H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (2004), Gore Vidal: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2007), and H. L. Mencken: An Annotated Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2009).

Reviews for The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken. Plays and Criticism.
H.L. Mencken cut his satirical teeth on drama and theatre, as the excellent new anthology, The Collected Drama of H.L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, edited by S.T. Joshi and published by Scarecrow Press, attests.... Theatre historians will need to turn to this volume to study the early reception of modern dramatists like Ibsen and Strindberg on the American stage.
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