Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles

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Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles

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This volume brings together Miss McCarthy's lively controversial essays on the theatre from the 1930's up to the present day. The intelligence and vitality of the author's analysis brings past productions of Shakespeare, Shaw, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wild, Odets, Saroyan, Wilder back to the reader with immediacy and freshness.

Written in her trenchant prose, Miss McCarthy's articles on the drama are amusing, sharp, original and penetrating.



About the Author
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), one of the most outspoken and celebrated intellectuals of her generation, published fiction, theater and literary criticism, essays, memoirs, travel writing, art history, and political reportage.

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