Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Drama of the Greatest Courtroom Clash of the Century

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Jerome Lawrence Robert E. Lee

Inherit the Wind

The Powerful Drama of the Greatest Courtroom Clash of the Century

Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

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English

Bantam USA
15 April 2003

Dance & Performing arts; Literary studies: general

A classic work of American theatre, based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in defense of a schoolteacher accused of teaching the theory of evolution

The accused was a slight, frightened man who haddeliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts, barely able to restrain themselves. At stake was the freedom of every American. One of the most moving and meaningful plays of our generation.

Praise for Inherit the Wind

""A tidal wave of a drama.""-New York World-Telegram And Sun

""Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee were classic Broadway scribes who knew how to crank out serious plays for thinking Americans. . . . Inherit the Wind is a perpetually prescient courtroom battle over the legality of teaching evolution. . . . We're still arguing this case-all the way to the White House.""-Chicago Tribune

""Powerful . . . a crackling good courtroom play . . .

that

provides two of the juiciest roles in American theater.""-Copley News Service

"" This

historical drama . . . deserves respect.""-The Columbus Dispatch

By: Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee
Imprint: Bantam USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 175mm, Width: 107mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 79g
ISBN: 9780345466273
ISBN 10: 0345466276
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 15 April 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jerome Lawrence was an American playwright and author. Robert Edwin Lee was an American playwright and lyricist.

Reviews for Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Drama of the Greatest Courtroom Clash of the Century

Through an investigation of key modernist texts such as Joyce's Ulysses, Bataille's Story of the Eye, and Genet's Miracle of the Rose, [Mansfield] shows how masochism eludes the binary opposition of the submissive to the dominant.... The author warns the postmodernist not to become entangled in the self/Other game because the masochist's power is simultaneously the center and its circumference, a theatrical space of power indifferent to the oppressive hierarchies operating in the culture. A vaulable book for students and scholars of literary theory, sexuality, and modern culture. -Choice