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Author Robert F. Gross here provides an
immensely detailed record of the primary materials,
published and unpublished, including plays, filmscripts,
fiction, and essays, and of the critical response, both
reviews and analytical studies. Focusing on Behrman as a
dramatist, Gross has written extensive plot summaries and
critical overviews for each of fifty-one plays. Where
applicable, full production credits are given for premieres
and revivals, and references are made to reviews and
commentary about specific productions as well as to the
plays in general. The annotated secondary bibliography is
divided into chronologically organized sections for reviews
and for books, parts of books, and articles. Fully
cross-referenced, the material is also accessible through an
author index to the secondary bibliography and a general
subject index. In an opening appraisal, Gross expresses his
appreciation for Behrman, whose high comedies he finds to be
informed by a probing ethical conscience and whose goal of
"scrupulosity" he emulates in his own work. |
