How many members were there in Mary McCarthy’s Group?
Mary McCarthy’s 1963 novel The Group concerns eight women students at Vassar.
Their names are: Dottie, Helena, Kay, Lakey, Libby, Pokey, Polly, and Priss.
Mary McCarthy’s 1963 novel The Group concerns eight women students at Vassar.
Their names are: Dottie, Helena, Kay, Lakey, Libby, Pokey, Polly, and Priss.
A closet drama is a play, usually in verse, written for private reading rather than performance. Byron’s Manfred (1817) and Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound (1820) are examples.
Maya Angelou and Godfrey Cambridge collaborated on Cabaret for Freedom in 1960. Cambridge is best known for his appearances in films like Watermelon Man (1970) and Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970). Angelou’s poetry, prose, and drama include the autobiographical volume, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
The thirty-second piece Breath by Samuel Beckett has no actors and no dialogue.
Said’s real name was H. H. Munro (1870-1916). The Scottish fiction writer and playwright was born in Burma and killed by a sniper in France during World War I.
Alice Liddell, daughter of Henry George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford was the model for Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Rene Francois Armand Sully Prudhomme of France in 1901. Who was the first English writer to receive the the Nobel Prize for literature? Rudyard Kipling in 1907. The first American? Sinclair Lewis in 1930.