***Playwright's Corner- Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour
Click below to link to a Wikipedia entry for American playwright Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Hour_(play)
Markin comment:
Yes, I know that Lillian Hellman (along with long-time lover, novelist Dashiell Hammett) was nothing but a Stalinist hack in her political life but some of her plays, including The Children's Hour which deals with the subject of lesbianism and witch trials-type hysteria forthrightly for the 1930s, are nevertheless worth reading. And immediately after that reading then go back to blast her for her defense of the Moscow Trials, and all the rest. Author Mary McCarthy (The Group), whatever her own political sins, had Hellman's Stalinist hack number on that score.
Click below to link to a Wikipedia entry for American playwright Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Hour_(play)
Markin comment:
Yes, I know that Lillian Hellman (along with long-time lover, novelist Dashiell Hammett) was nothing but a Stalinist hack in her political life but some of her plays, including The Children's Hour which deals with the subject of lesbianism and witch trials-type hysteria forthrightly for the 1930s, are nevertheless worth reading. And immediately after that reading then go back to blast her for her defense of the Moscow Trials, and all the rest. Author Mary McCarthy (The Group), whatever her own political sins, had Hellman's Stalinist hack number on that score.
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