Elmer Rice (1892–1967)
Auteur de The Adding Machine
A propos de l'auteur
A native of New York City, Rice studied law and passed his bar exams. However, he immediately began writing, and On Trial (1914), which employed a flashback technique, made Rice an important playwright at age 22. He proceeded to study under Hatcher Hughes at Columbia University, where he also afficher plus directed. He helped found the Playwrights' Company in 1938, the Dramatists Guild, and other groups. In 1951 he came to the defense of actors whose allegedly left-wing associations were causing them to lose their jobs. During his 45 years in the theater, Rice wrote 50 full-length plays, 4 novels, and several film and television scripts, as well as his autobiography and The Living Theater (1939), which appraises the theater in terms of the social and economic forces affecting its development. His two masterpieces are The Adding Machine (1923), an expressionistic comedy wherein the hero remains a cipher in mechanized society, and Street Scene (1929), which was originally entitled Landscape with Figures because Rice considered "the [tenement] house as the real protagonist of the drama." The plot's crime passionel is but one aspect of the crowded panorama of tenement life. Robert Hogan writes in assessing Rice's career, "Rice has produced a remarkable body of work---large, varied, experimental andhonest . . . . As a consistently experimental playwright he is rivalled in our theater only by O'Neill."Rice won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Street Scene. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Elmer Rice
The Show Must Go On 7 exemplaires
Judgment Day / Street Scene / Two on an Island 2 exemplaires
Imperial City, Part 2 2 exemplaires
Imperial City, Part 1 2 exemplaires
Counsellor at Law [1933 film] 1 exemplaire
We, the People 1 exemplaire
Cue for Passion 1 exemplaire
Black Sheep: A Comedy in Three Acts 1 exemplaire
The Subway: A Play in Nine Scenes 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Three Plays About Business in America: The Adding Machine, Beggar on Horseback, All My Sons (1964) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 36 exemplaires
Twenty Five Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre: Early Series (1949) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
Contemporary Drama: European, English and Irish, American Plays (1941) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Famous Plays of Crime and Detection, from Sherlock Holmes to Angel Street (1946) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 1 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 3 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Reizenstein, Elmer Leopold
- Date de naissance
- 1892-09-28
- Date de décès
- 1967-05-08
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA (birth)
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Southampton, Hampshire, England
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA (birth)
Southampton, Hampshire, England (death) - Études
- New York Law School (LL.B. cum laude)
- Professions
- law clerk
playwright
novelist
autobiographer - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1938)
ACLU (Board member)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 33
- Aussi par
- 18
- Membres
- 364
- Popularité
- #66,014
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 12
- Langues
- 2
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